Sunday, March 28, 2010

Jake 18 months update part two

Jake turned 18 months old on March 16. In the last few months he makes me dizzy with all of his new discoveries and achievements. He started walking in February, months after most of his friends but once he started there was no stopping him. He loves it! Kind of makes you wonder why he took so long to start in the first place, but never mind - walking Jake is here!

At home he walks circles from the kitchen to the living room to the hallway back to the kitchen and continues with this circuit, walking around and jibber jabbering to himself and to us.

Now that he is upright on two feet, he is also discovering how to dance. All of those hours he spent watching the wiggles dance party over and over again have paid off as he now does most of the dance moves and even tries to sing along. Pretty good given his limited vocabulary. Last time we tried we were able to count 24 words that Jake says.




Just a couple weeks before he turned 18 months, Jake decided to go through a hunger strike. It was so frustrating until I learned this is perfectly normal and he will eat again when he is hungry. True to form, he is back to eating and we added yummy tyson chicken nuggets to his food repetoire - 100% natural so I figured it was okay. His latest new dish is thai basil chicken (gai sup kaprow), not spicy.

He continues to charm anyone and everyone who sees him. When he was a newborn, I thought of course everyone loves a newborn. But now he is a full fledged toddler and still manages to win fans wherever he goes with his friendly hi's and bye's and happy babbling as he walks around.

His 18 month stats are height 32 and a quarter inches and weight 22 pounds and 9 ounces. He is bang on average height but only 10 percentile weight.

His current vocabulary includes:
  1. mama
  2. papa
  3. teddy
  4. yes
  5. no
  6. hi
  7. bye
  8. night night
  9. monkey
  10. car
  11. truck
  12. keys
  13. this
  14. please
  15. kaap (thai-thank you)
  16. bid (thai-close)
  17. yai (thai-grandma)
  18. mee-mee (his own word for pacifier)
  19. go
  20. baby
  21. two (when he hears 1-2-3 on tv he says two-two-two)
  22. fish
  23. doggy
  24. puppy
  25. ball
  26. nana (banana)
  27. go down (from a wiggles song)
  28. hey
  29. wow/whoa
huh- i guess there are more than 23.

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