18 months

Ethan wearing a jumper I wore when I was his age

Ethan is officially 18 months, so here are the stats:

Weight    29 lbs     85%tile
Height    33.75 in  86%tile
Head      19.29in    81%tile

He grew over 2 inches in the last 2 1/2 months and subsequently outgrew a lot of his clothes. Ethan continues to be easy going and fun. He does want his own way more and more, but his tantrums are pretty mild. He understands a lot of what we say but still doesn't say many words. He mostly tries to get by with pointing and signing "more" or "all done." He is good in his car seat and so we try to go out almost every day. One of his favorite places is the library. We just started going to a new storytime for 18 mo - 2 1/2 year-olds.

For some reason, Ethan loves playing with the measuring cups and spoons.

We even started going a few weeks early but Ethan is probably the most attentive and best behaved child there. He loves the books and songs and activities and just stands right at the front by the librarian hanging on her every word. It's pretty cute. :) Hopefully that is an indication that he loves learning as much as I do.

I am also surprised at how well he can navigate the iPad. He can open the iPad and set it in its slot, turn it on, navigate a few screens over to the PBS app, and then tap on the app to open it and start watching his shows. When he's bored with it, he exits out of it and finds another app he wants to open. He picked all these steps up over time just by watching me do it and then trying it himself.

Despite his face in this picture, Ethan is actually really good with a spoon now!

Ethan loved walking outside today since the temperature got up to 57!

Just loves that spray bottle! :)

Since I try to limit his time on the iPad, he also spends time dancing to music, reading books with me, and pulling things out/dumping things out of containers and then putting it back. He has especially liked playing with the Dominoes and Bananagrams. He also likes puzzles and shapes and can easily put all the shapes in the Fisher Price shape sorter. So even though he doesn't say much, I can tell his little brain is at work trying to figure everything out. In fact, today he figured out how to use a spray bottle with water in it and kept spraying himself in the face and laughing. It was so funny to watch him. :)