Holy cow...we have a 2 year old on our hands!
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| I still want to take an official 2 year pic, but here's for now |
Loves: Watching Curious George and Peppa Pig, anything related to cars, trains, planes, boats or bikes, playing with other kids, coloring with markers, doing puzzles - real and virtual on the ipad, milk, going down slides, climbing, his chewable vitamins (BEGS for more than 1 a day!), being understood now that he's talking more
New: Talking!!! He just took off at 23 months while visiting my parents in the US. He started the visit refusing to even say words he knew and had said before, and finished the visit repeating just about anything. Now a few weeks later he is even initiating communication, pointing at things, answering questions, and showing comprehension of non tangible concepts. VERY cool! Also new is not being SO into his frog blanket anymore and not sucking fingers so much, or really noticeably at all. He lets us and likes to put toys in his crib. We keep a little hanging basket of toys he can play with when he wakes up.
Routine: Up between 7-8, nap 1-3 or 4, sleeping around 7:30pm
Struggles: Sleep, though I can't blame him. The past few months have been crazy with guests and traveling so our routine has been totally off, but he was GREAT through the whole thing. Then, once it was time to get back to normal, he started having sleep trouble. For about 2 weeks he was waking up at 5:30 am and screaming! Then it was short naps (only 1 hour ish!) and screaming when it was time to go to sleep/nap. It was exhausting and draining for everyone! But we really tried to stick our routine and after a month now he is walking up solidly after 7 (we're working on getting back to our 8am wake up time) and he's back with 2 hour naps (working on getting back to 3 hours) and going down great again. Phew that was crazy for a while! Though I read it's common around 2 yo so maybe it doesn't have to do with the traveling. Glad we're back to normal though!
Words Elijah says: meow, Sam, dog, woof, dad, mama, choo choo, car, counts with me to 3, go, stop, no, cup, milk, juice, more, please, shoe (hew actually :) , egg, ear, ball, moo, quack, duck, neigh, roar, poopy, star, moon, night night, bye, book, thank you, all down, down
Some of the words he shows us he knows and will repeat but doesn't say on his own: head, hands, foot, diaper, mouth, nose, belly, chicken, bread, carrot, chair, table, baby, no thank you, up, cow, horse, help, bath, and many more
