18 Months Old

It's been a year and a half with Beans in our family. He's so cute and everything he does is silly and sweet. He loves showing affection and will keep giving hugs and kisses for as long as he's allowed to before you just have to put him down. He's still not sleeping through the night consistently and is still nursing. He's been the hardest to wean by a long shot because he's so attached. He's also not the easiest to transition him to his crib because he always wants to be held. He'll sleep within a minute if he's being held but once he feels the motion of you trying to lay him down he's awake. I'm hoping to get him sleep trained soon but I'm not sure how well that will go. 

Grant is also a little guy. He's smaller than even Addie was at this age and she was tiny. I felt some mom guilt with Grant because his pediatrician kept pointing out how small he was on the charts and that I needed to get his weight up. She prescribed Pediasure for him and even scheduled weigh ins. The hard part about this as well was that up until recently Grant refused bottles. The only times he'll even consider a bottle is if there's strawberry flavor in the milk. Otherwise it's very unlikely he'll take a sip. At his 18 month appointment though he finally reached 20 lbs and his doctor is finally happy with where he's at. He still is only in the 4th percentile but she says that he's just a small guy in general and that this is his own normal. I'm glad she's starting to see it this way because the mom guilt has gone away and everyone who knows Grant knows that he's healthy and just naturally small. He might be small but his smile is big. I love his grin. Sometimes when I know he's frustrated I'll go pick him up and he wants to still show you that he's upset but a smile always creeps through just from the fact that he's being held which is his favorite thing. Even though he wants to stay upset he just can't if he's getting affection. It's pretty cute. 

At 18 months Grant loves:

Books

Bubbles

Being Held
Being Outside

 Baths

Unloading the Dishes

Favorite Shows:

Nursery Rhymes

Favorite Songs:

Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree

The Wheels On The Bus
Baby Shark

Favorite Books:

Where's Baby's Belly Button
Little Blue Truck
Time For Bed

Favorite Foods:

Green Smoothies
Avocados

Pizza

Cheese

Bananas

Goldfish Crackers

Apple Sauce
Chicken Nuggets
Quesadillas

Dislikes:

Coming Inside from Outside
The Doctor
The Nurses
Getting His Hair Cut
Not Being Held

The last time I did an update on the list of words that Grant knew was on his birthday post and at that time there were only five words. Grant has always been very vocal and his count of five words have grown tremendously in the last six months. He is now up to sixty six words and learning everyday. He truly amazes me with his love for learning.

His current list of words:

Mama

Hi

Uh Oh

EIEIO

Bye

Help

Dada

No

Yee Haw!

Thank You

Yeah

Get Out

Need Help

Tickle Tickle

Addie

Binky

Night Night

Owe

Go

Nose

Doggy

Roar!

Where It Go?

Here You Go

Ball

Snack

Water (Wa Wa)

Bottle (Ba Ba)

I Love You

Hotdog

Tree

Book

Pizza

Hold Me

Blueberry (Bluey)

Outside

Snowing

Kitty

Meow

Bird

Hudson

Ho Ho Ho

Apple

Banana (Nana)

Car

Bubbles

Amen

Socks

Shoes

Nice

Beep Beep Beep

Poo Poo

Stuck

Cheese

Puppy

Wow

Baby

Woof Woof

Jaina (Naina)

Teeth

Avocado (Cado)

One

Two

Three

Rubble

Moo

Trying on his Halloween costume ten months early. 😄

18 month old stats:

Weight - 20.06 lbs (4.72%)

Length - 32 in (34.24%)