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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

15 Months

Our little guy is 15 months old and we just can't imagine him not being a part of our family.  At his last dr appt he weighed 24.0 pounds.  He is getting tall and thin just like his sisters.

He has his first year molars on the top coming in and they look painful.  He has been fussy and wanting to nurse (or use mom as a pacifier) more lately so I think that is how he soothes himself.  He is doing great at going to bed now and hardly fusses when we lay him down.  Nap time is still a struggle he cries for a long time and sometimes sleeps for an hour but then sometimes not.  At daycare I'm told he sleeps 2-3 hours so he just won't sleep for us I guess.

He has had several haircuts by Aunt Stephanie, his hair is a little curly and pretty thick.

His favorite thing is the vacuum, he has 2 toy vacuums his favorite is the one from nana and paw-paw that is a Hoover that makes noise.  He loves the real vacuum and will follow you around and try to push it around.  He knows it is kept in Scott's office so if he escapes from the baby gate he make a bee-line to the vacuum.  He also discovered the hand-held vacuum we keep upstairs.  He carries it around and tries to plug it randomly into the wall.  He know it is plugged in but doesn't know it needs an outlet.

His sisters still love him to pieces and are very good at playing with him and they often take turns watching him on the weekends so Scott and I can get the house picked up.  He is a good listener now and is trying to communicate.  He has several words he can say including: more, down/done, up.  He likes to throw things, which is ok if it is a ball but often he'll pick up anything he can find and throw it.  If he gets mad he will look for anything to throw, I think he has a little temper already.

Monday, January 22, 2018

Snow

Last week we got 4.5 inches of snow on Wednesday morning.  The girls were so excited and were out playing in it right after breakfast even though only an inch had really fallen by then.  This year they were able to dress themselves and only needed help with their gloves and boots.  That was nice because I had to get Ethan dressed which was not easy especially trying to put on his boots.  Ethan liked the snow but had trouble walking in it so he preferred to be carried.

I made snow cream that afternoon, the girls had put a bowl on the patio to collect snow so we had a good start and then I got some more off the top of the cars.  Ethan tried his first snow cream and guess what, he liked it too!

Wednesday night it got really cold so the snow froze which made for good sledding on Thursday morning.  Ethan had daycare so that allowed us all to go across the street to sled at the soccer fields.  It started to warm up though that afternoon and most of the snow was gone by Thursday night.