19 Months Old

Playing video games with Daddy. You will sit on his lap for hours if we let you. You love wearing the headset and listening.

Lee's almost 2 years old. I feel that if I blink too hard it will be here and it really truely scares me. On the other hand, he's getting to be so big and smart, everyday he is surprising me. Here are some funny and new things he's doing.

Walking up and down stairs all by himself. He refuses help and wants to do it himself. Scares the life out of me because he's actually walking down them instead of crawling now.

If you ask him his favorite letter he'll say "p". Last night at my parents we were there for dinner and after I asked him his letter, he followed it by singing (actually singing and you could tell it was the abc song) "p p p p p p p p, p p p p p p p p." He was singing to the tune of ABC's but only used the letter "p".

If you ask him how old he is, he'll tell you he's 2.


He's starting to get the TV shows he watches. He'll sit there and laugh or he'll say "oh no" at the appropriate oh no times.

He can turn on the TV and then he'll bring you the remote and either ask for you to turn on Elmo or Choo Choos.

He's really curious about putting on his own clothes. He'll get his arm in or his leg but then is stuck.

His signing is getting much better. He can sign: amen, all done, more, eat, drink, pig, home, bath, please, dadddy and potty.


He also knows where the following body parts are: hair, ears, eyes, nose, teeth, tongue, hands, belly button and feet.


3 favorite toys right now are trains, mr. potato head and books.


You can feed yourself just about anything with a fork or spoon. It's still a bit messy, but you do a very good job!


You're still going to bed about 7pm every night, waking up between 7-8am and napping from noon-3pm (most days).


When I ask you a question, you will say "umm" before giving me the answer. It's really funny and I laugh everytime. You will also ask me what things are, "whats it" is what I think you're saying. You want to know what everything is, and you repeat what I tell you. 85% of the time, I still don't understand you, but you have a lot to say!


You LOVE to play video games with Daddy. He will even switch video games so you can sit on his lap and play with him.

You love to color. You are most definately left handed also.

Bedtime the last few nights has been horrible. You will cry and cry and cry. I have no clue why other than you're extra tired and don't want to go to sleep. You're fine if we're in there with you but you hate being left alone.

You refuse to wear socks. I don't even put them on you anymore. Once your shoes are off, so are the socks!


Below are some pictures from the last month or so.

Playing in the snow. Like socks you won't keep gloves on either.

Climbing on everything.

Trying to dress yourself.

You love to help me make cookies... and eat them.

There were major problems with the cars and your garage. You can see the tongue sticking out, you were thinking hard!

5 Months Old - and then some...

Lee is 24 weeks old today! He is changing everyday, there's always something new. Right now, he's going through this, "I don't want to go to bed". I always thought that we would skip by the whole, "cry uncontrollably when going to bed" routine. Get this... since he was 3 months old, he's always wanted to fall asleep by himself. He's never really liked to be held when falling asleep. NOW, Lee is taking his naps really well, he goes right to sleep. But the second I turn down the lights to feed him at night (something we have always done) he starts screaming uncontrollably. I'm hoping this is a faize and will end soon. The last 4 nights have been rough. He's getting stronger too, so when he arches his back to throw a temper tantrum, it's almost funny, but I might drop him... it's crazy. It hits 7pm and he turns into this Dr. Jeykle/Mr. Hyde. Tonight was a very tiny bit better... I hope it keeps going that way. It's so weird...

Other than "bedtime" he's an angel. He's teething again... how many times have I said that right?!?! Well he's doing all the same stuff he was doing before. There's costant drool to where he will wear 2 - 3 bibs in a 2 hour period. We could ring them out. It's gotten to the point that I went and bought some of those waterproof ones. Even with teething though, it doesn't take much to get a smile or a laugh out of him. He's usually at his "slap happy" stage after he wakes up from his last nap. It's really cute. He laughs at just about anything you do to him :)

Here's his schedule for this week: (although he's been on this for almost a month now, maybe a little more)
7:30am - Wake up (eats 2T Oatmeal, 4oz Bottle)
9am - Nap
10:30am - Wake up (6oz Bottle)
12:30pm - Nap
2:30pm - Wake up (8oz Bottle)
4:30pm - Nap
5:30pm - Wake up (Jar of baby food, 2oz bottle)
7pm - (Lights out, 8oz bottle & scream fest)
7:30pm - Bedtime for the night
This is generally his schedule. I let him sleep in as late as he can. I usually don't wake him up in the morning. He has gone as late as 8:30pm, but that has been very far and few. I'm not complaining at all though.

Here are some things you have started in the last 4 weeks Lee:
Nov 4 - Started cereal with a spoon again. We had to stop because you were throwing it up. Dr. wanted us to wait 1 month and then start again. You are doing great! You love eating with a spoon. We are also putting rice cereal in your bottles to help with reflux. So you are getting a lot of rice cereal!!

Nov 5 - Gave you prunes for the first time. You were in a lot of pain from the rice cereal and it's not letting you poop.

Nov 6 - Prunes didn't do squat, so we had to give you a suppository :( That was not as bad as I thought it would be. You pooped in about 2 minutes and you didn't even notice a difference.

Nov 8 - You put your pacifier in your mouth for the first time! YEAH!

Nov 10 - Started you on oatmeal. Still have rice cereal in your bottles, but you have oatmeal with a spoon. You LOVED it even more than rice and gobbled it all up! All poop issues resolved!!

Nov 11 - You were laying on your belly and tucked your feet under you and lifted your bottom way off the ground. We also started giving you oatmeal in the mornings as well as in the evenings today.

Nov 12 - Started your really high pitched squealing. Daddy started calling you a mongoose. I don't think he knows what a mongoose is, but that's what he likes to call you.

Nov 13 - Started carrots at dinner time, it was only 1T and you loved them and would get so excited to eat more. You would throw your hands up and down really fast.

Nov 16 - You started sucking and biting your bottom lip. I have a picture of you, it's really funny to watch you.

Nov 20 - You had sweet potatoes for the first time. You loved these too. I think they are your favorite.

Nov 23 - You started screaming your head off at bed time. You know when it's your bedtime now, and you are not liking it at all.

Nov 26 - You had green beans for the first time. You didn't like these at first, but once we got to the bottom of the jar, you were loving them. You made some really funny faces at first though ;0)

Here are some most recent pictures:




Lee biting on his bottom lip.


Gobble, Gobble - Happy Thanksgiving!


Yummy, sweet potatoes on Thanksgiving!!



Family picture!


That's all I have for now!