Dear Carder,
You are growing up so fast.
You are almost 36” tall now (taller than the kitchen counter!!!). You might be a tiny bit heavier (about 26.5 Pounds),
but you are still one skinny little boy!
Your Daddy and I regularly compare you to a Spider Monkey when you are
running around in only your diaper or naked because you really are all arms and
legs. You are all over the board in the
size of clothes you are wearing – pants are a 2T and have been for a while due
to the length – but if they aren’t an adjustable waist I have to add one in or
they will literally fall off of you. In
shorts, you are still in the 18 month ones from last summer – and some of those
are still too big in the waist. Shirts you are wearing either a 2T or a 3T as
both seem to fit you, but I have a feeling that come fall you will be in all 3T
shirts because the sleeves on a 2T are often a bit short for you. You still have a couple 2T pajamas that fit
you, but you are also wearing some 3T pajamas as well. And anything with footies that was 2T was put
away weeks ago. I can’t believe that my
sweet little preemie baby isn’t even 2 yet and is already outgrowing some 2T
clothing! Your shoe size seems to be
around a 7 ½ right now.
And although I just wrote a whole paragraph about your size,
I am more amazed at your developmental growth lately. Every day you surprise me with the things you
say and do.
Your vocabulary is getting so big and you are saying words I
had no idea you knew. You are
identifying some of your letters (E and R), you know quite a few colors (red,
blue, yellow, green, orange, pink, purple, brown, white), and you are learning
to count and your numbers (you have 1 & 2 down pat and are working towards
the others). You know your first and
last name. You also know both Daddy and
my first and last names. You know the
names of our neighbors and their animals.
You know you will be 2 on your birthday.
You speak in broken sentences – sometimes up to 6 or 7 words
strung together – and most of the time there are a subject and a verb. You are identifying things and describing
them by the number of them, what they are doing, what their function is, and
the color they are. We have whole
conversations about what you see around you.
This week I have heard “Trash Truck Alley Up Carder Dirty Diapers”
multiple times as you were telling me that the trash truck had been in the
alley picking up your dirty diapers. In
addition, you are no longer content with a response of “uh huh” when you point
something out to us – we have to repeat what you said so that you know we
understood you. This can be frustrating
if we don’t know what you are trying to say – but you will often find an
association to help us figure out what you are trying to say (“crying” was “wa
wa wa” and “slide” was “wheeee!”).
If you think I am not paying close enough attention to you,
you will place your hands on both sides of my face to make sure I am looking
directly at you.
Your favorite songs right now include “The Wheels on the
Bus” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep”.
You still love to read, but your favorite book changes from
week to week. Some recent favorites were
“LMNO Peas”, “I Love Trucks”, and “Go Dogs. Go”.
Your favorite toy in the world is a ball and you LOVE to
“shoot hoops”. You cheer for yourself
when you make it (and often say “Yay Carder, 2 points” or “score”) and you will
say “almost” and “so close” when you miss. Other favorite toys right now include
trucks/tractors, your blocks, puzzles, and your farm. And roughhousing. And anything that involves being outside.
At swimming lessons this past month, you started requesting
to swim by yourself with your puddle jumper and you kick your legs so hard to
get from one place to another.
Technology comes second nature to you and you are whiz at
the iPad. You can open it up and find
your games by scrolling through the screens.
You also know how to open your games and get them started on your
own. You will also hand me the iPad and
request to talk to one set of your grandparents or the other on FaceTime. And you know how to end the call as well.
Your favorite food is still any type of fruit (blackberries
and melons this week). You still love
still things like hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato fries, waffles,
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and cereal.
You are beginning to get more adventurous in your food choices and have
begun requesting to taste things on our plates and then eating more. A recent discovery is that you love tomatoes
with fresh mozzarella drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. And chips dipped in salsa. You have also started calling your drinks "coffee" because that is what mommy and daddy drink.
Sleep still isn’t stellar, but you have 4 teeth breaking
through and swelling indicating that your 2 year molars are trying to come in
as well. We have made progress in this
department though as you now lie in your crib each night to go to sleep. I am still in the room but we are making
progress and the bedtime routine is getting shorter so I think it is a win.
I love you, my little man.
Mommy
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