20 months
this is a bit late but i still wanted to take a few minutes to write about how frederick changed in his 19th month. frederick amazes me every day with the new words he learns, things he knows, and things he can do.
this month he surprised me by spontaneously beginning to count to 10 (something i have never tried teaching him) which was completely adorable. he would be sitting in the corner playing with his toys and i would hear “wuuu, tooooo, teee, fo, fiiiive, seeeeks, sesse, eiiigh, niiii, tin!” of course he has since forgotten all numbers between 2 and 8 but that’s another story. now it’s just “eiiigh, niiii, tin”. and also ABCs are known in our house as EFGs because that is what he calls them.
he still is obsessed with all things ball-related. now it has extended to basketball hoops, which he has always loved. now every time i pull out a magna doodle or piece of paper his first request is that i draw a “hoooop”. i bought him a little basketball hoop that suctions to the sliding door and he throws every single ball we own through it every morning when he wakes up. i even gave in and bought him a cheesy shirt from target with a picture of a basketball hoop on it and he very proudly looks in the mirror or down at his shirt all day and smiles and yells because he loves it.
frederick this month developed a very strong connection to his blanket and it’s matching mini-blanket. it is cute to see him get excited to cuddle up with either, or both, of them when he gets tired or when he is waking up.
frederick has also become a bit of a parrot. he will try to repeat just about anything you point out or ask him to say. he’s getting very good at imitating different truck noises – beep beep, chug chug, woo woo woo, nee-nah nee-nah, honk honk. he has a little shark we play with in the bath that i always do the jaws du-duh du-duh noises for and then attack him and he loves it. now he does it to himself and it is hilarious. and for some reason when we gave him tilapia for dinner tonight and told him it was fish he started making the same noises – go figure! i guess all fish are after him now!
frederick also got his umpteenth (i’ve lost track) hair cut this month – at a real hair salon for kids! no more mom whacking at his hair! i am happy to say he sat very calmly while the woman very quickly and skillfully cut his hair. it helped that he got to watch a new TV show on the TV in front of him and that he got a sucker and prize afterward but really i went into it worried and was shocked at how well he did. those places really know their stuff and i think his hair looks great!
this month we had our first bout of the stomach flu which very conveniently coincided with a trip to utah for rowland’s wedding. i will spare the details but suffice it to say it was not a high point but we all survived! luckily we did a house swap with the merkleys while we were in utah so we had a big, beautiful, new house to stay in while we suffered it out instead of being cramped in a hotel room! we came back from our trip and were lucky to have taryn and beckham at our house for the week. the boys had a ton of fun at happy hollow, playing in the creek, shopping in the city, watching nemo (or meno or memo, depending on which one of them you ask), and chowing down. at happy hollow we (i?) incited a beckham-frederick hug that resulted in both boys falling in goat poop and frederick getting a nasty scrape on his head – oops! i hope these boys stay friends as they get older and continue to have fun memories together, they are such cute little buddies.
we are loving watching frederick grow up and become a little boy. we often play all day and wonder how he is still going when we are both exhausted, he is just a ball of energy! his smile is contagious and we can’t get enough of him. coming up in month 20: a trip to san diego, strawberry picking, swimming, beach time, & a trip to phoenix!
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