18 months

 Tadhg Conor

It's hard to believe you are 18 months old now!

In some ways you are still my baby boy but in others you are doing at well at keeping up with the other boys.

~pretty sure you now out-weigh Alannah ;-)

~you are in 18-24 months or 2T clothes & size 4 diaper 

(tho I think you will be the first to go into size 5 before graduating out of diapers!)

~you are beginning to use more and more words, including your signs on your own

~some new ones lately are "me", "mine", "yes", "up"

~you are very expressive, often responding very excited or sad depending on the situation

~you are a wonderful helper... often the first one finding your shoes and jacket when we go to leave, often finding your siblings things and giving them to the proper person, the play vacuum is a favorite and you push it along side and behind and around me while I vacuum

~you love to eat ;-) yogurt, cheese, pasta and salmon are favorites but you will eat anything happily!

~you are officially down to one nap, it took a good 4 months to get you there, we would often do a short morning nap, or a morning nap every couple mornings and so on to get you to just one nap. You are now napping around 2 hours, a little earlier then we had been doing naps, in the 12:30/1 range till about 2:30/3. 

It's working out nicely with Ailish's naps as well. 

Alannah still naps with you and the big boys are rarely napping anymore. 

~Bedtime is 7/7:30 and you are FINALLY consistently sleeping past 6 am as well ;-) You are usually up around 6:45 and past 7 is a special treat for mama

~You still love your tiger lovey, but are now showing a preference for one of them over the other (they are indentical loveys) you really like the one that the ear has torn open a little on and you play with the ear ;-)

Love you little man!

You still have quite the hairstyle - very fine blond/white hair - often sticks up crazy in the back due to 2 cowlicks, it's starting to get longer and will sometimes comb down okay. Still haven't had a first haircut ;-)