Waits 18 months- Aug 2015

In early August, Waits turned 18 months old.

About Waits at 18 months old:

Height:  31 in. (8.4 %)
 Our little shorty... down from the 22nd % in height at 15 months!

Weight:  21.98 lbs. (19.2 %)

Head:  18.38 cm. (29.5 %)

•Waits will cry and face plant (literally!) anytime Daddy or I leave. He will even begin to cry when he sees Daddy packing his back pack because he knows that means Daddy will be leaving soon. So sad and so sweet and cute.

•Waits is a marathon napper. As he shares a room with Minnette, who like to stay up late, he often will not get enough sleep at night, but will easily make up for it by napping for up to 5 hours in the afternoon!

•While our little Waits was right on track with our other children for when he learned to crawl, he took a little but longer to learn to walk. Our first three all walked right around 12 months, while Waitsey boy learned to walk at almost 16 months!

•He is still  not talking as much as we would expect him to at this age, and we are in the process of beginning early intervention speech therapy. For his initial consultation he scored very high in his cognitive, social and all other skills, besides his verbal speech, which was very low. 

•Waits loves to play with cars, balls, slides, and riding toys.

•Waits loves to 'help' in the kitchen by playing in the kitchen drawers and cabinets. He especially likes to pull out pot lids and the cheese grater and stirring utensils and either organize them on the kitchen floor, or spread them evenly throughout the apartment. :)

•He loves to run down hills/ramps. There is a hallway in our church building that is divided into stairs on the left side, and a ram on the right hand side. Waits will climb up the stairs and then turn around and run down the ramp over and over and over again.

•Waits loves to climb. 75% of my time is spent getting him down from objects in our home. The desk, the table, the top of couch, etc.

•Waits' newest obsession? Splashing in the toilet water and throwing multiple entire rolls of toilet paper in it!

•He recently learned how to spin

•Waits allows his two big sisters to carry him around like a doll most of the time. When we found out while I was pregnant with Waits, that we were going to be having a boy, everyone told me that he would have four moms, and boy, were they right. He gets so much love. He will go to them for comfort and even choose to sit in their laps for story time (and by them, I mean Minnette and Aurelle. Jovi is still pretty young for that, though she is still a great friend to Waits and a good 'mom' to her baby dolls :) )

•He loves to eat oatmeal and to try and feed himself. I still share most of my meals with him, especially breakfast, because he just eats more that way. He drinks water from big cups by himself, and refuses to drink water from a sippy cup anymore! (But will drink a smoothie from one, fortunately)

•He is as happy and healthy as can be!

•We all love him so much, an are so excited to see him as a big brother by the end of the month!