Sixteen Months

August 6, 2018

August is 16 months old!

At 16 Months, August:

Teeth: 6 + 2 top molars halfway through

Words: Mama, Dada, Bear, Bird, Bubble, Dog, Buddy, Bobo (Bodhi), Plane, Hi, Bye, Nigh-Nigh, Baa (sheep), truck (duck), Baby, Ball, Uh-oh, No, No-no, Love you (luh you), water (wawa), no more (no mo), roar (lion), eye, nose, mouth (mou), eww, banana (nana), bup (what he calls milk & pacifiers), flower, yeah, meow (cat), door, hot, ick, slide (ide), and more but it’s hard to remember everything he says at this point!

Loves:

Climbing anything he can
Going down (and climbing back up) slides
Looking out the window
Airplanes
Being outside
Stroller rides to the park
His snack cup
Simple puzzles and shape sorters
Balls
Books—especially loves books that have bears and dogs (Brown Bear What Do You See & Go, Dog, Go are still favorites)
Giving kissies
Pushing anything he can around the house (toy stroller, laundry basket, stool, etc)
Pointing to my facial features when holding him and naming them (eye, nose, mouth)
Downward dogging
Putting objects into containers and taking them back out
Gymboree
Being pushed around in the toy stroller or laundry basket
Remotes

Dislikes:

Cutting molars
When Scarlett doesn’t share or takes toys away from him
Being hungry
Not sharing your food with him or when he sees food and can’t have it (i.e. grocery store, when mama is cooking)
Being confined to the playroom—likes access to explore the whole house
Feeling like he’s missing out

What’s New:

Walks about 50% of the time right now—each day he walks a little more
His sense of humor comes out more each day—silly like his sissy
Likes to be given choices to pick from (books, toys, snacks, etc)
Gets frustrated that he can’t always tell you what he wants and also frustrated that he can’t do everything Scarlett can
Scared of thunder ever since fireworks scared him when people were shooting them off for the 4th
Answers no and yeah to questions
More oppositional lately and will really let you know when he doesn’t want to do something:)
Tries to “count” objects like he sees Scarlett do—points to objects one by one and counts using baby gibberish:)

Other Activity:

Sleeps from around 8:30pm until 8-8:30am usually waking once between 5-7am to nurse before going back to sleep for a few more hours. Takes a nap around 2pm that lasts until 4:30-5pm. Still nurses 3-4x/day upon waking i, before nap, and before bed.

Nicknames: Gorilly (hits chest and hoots like a gorilla), Goomy, Goom, Goomici, Goombo, Baybuh, Chubb

16 Month Photoshoot:

Memories from August’s 16th Month:

Botanical Gardens

Helping push the grocery cart after our weekly grocery store outing

Good morning!

I ❤️ my snack cup

First visit to the St. Louis Art Museum

Stroller ride to the park

Ice cream for sale!

Sissy trying to put princess clothes on him

Sibling ❤️

Two street urchins waiting for Dada outside the store

His favorite toy these days

Hooray for Gymboree!

Fun at Grandma & Poppy’s!

He loves climbing on sissy’s kitchen stool

I tried to block him off from the kitchen area but it didn’t work;)

Matching babies❤️

Listening to the trees at Botanical Gardens (again:)

Not quite ready for sissy’s puzzles yet but he certainly enjoys throwing the pieces around:)

Bathtime babies

Uh-oh..

Playtime at Grandma & Poppy’s

A visit from Florida Poppy!

Getting ready for his first baseball game!

August’s first baseball game! Scarlett wasn’t feeling very well that day so we only stayed long enough for the kids to eat lunch, but it was nice lunchtime entertainment for them!