Steven at 19 Months

*Catch up post,19 months, December 2012

Favorite Things:
You still love to sing. With the Christmas season we've added a few more songs to your singing repertoire. You love to sing Jingle Bells and know most of the words. You also like the "S-A-N-T-A" song to the tune of BINGO.

You are obsessed with Finding Nemo. You call it "Fish!!" and love to watch it everyday. You will sit there and watch it for a good 30 minutes at a time.

You love to paint and will ask to paint all the time. You are bad about putting the paint brushes in your mouth so we usually just stick to water with a bit of food coloring for now. But you still love it.

You absolutely love putting on chapstick. You will sit there and smear it on your face and grin from ear to ear the entire time.

New Skills/Tricks:
You are able to pull up your own pants after diaper changes/potty attempts. You are taking off your own shirt now too.

You've started saying "no" when we ask you a question and you'll shake your head too.

You've started to match pieces of puzzles to the right spot in the puzzle

You are learning to jump this month. You've gotten it from watching mommy do a Jillian Michaels workout video. You love to "help" mommy doe the video and for a while you would try to do the moves with mommy. But you got tired of that by the end of the month and just climb on mommy the whole time :/

You have started walking around with one hand in your pocket. So funny!

You love to take off your socks and wear them on your hands. We have started calling you "sock hands" when you do that.

I think our discipline measures are paying off because when you do something bad (like biting us) you will say "timeout!" and walk yourself to the corner for a timeout.

Vocabulary:
You can now count to 10 on your own and get all the numbers every time!

Daddy taught you when he says "We are the knights that say..." you respond with "neat!!" (I think its from Monty Python lol) You love to do it in the bath.

You are able to say "Luv you" when we say "I love you" and you give kisses all the time now. Sometimes spontaneously when we aren't asking for one and that is the cutest!

Big Events this Month:
We went to Purina Farms with the Gooden Grandparents this month. They had a really cute (and free) Christmas Carnival for kids going on. You loved it. You got to see a ton of people there with their dogs. You had a great time running around and petting the dogs. You're head was spinning from so many dogs in one room. LOL

You also got to ride the little train they had which you just loved. It was a great time!

With Christmas coming up, there's been a lot of talk about Santa. You are very interested in Santa and like to talk about him. We took you to see Santa a few times and you screamed your head off and didn't want to go near him. Then afterwards you said "Santa, How are you?" all day long...

Another big event this month was daddy's graduation from UMSL. We are so proud of him! You got really into cheering for him. It was a great day!

We had our 2nd Christmas this year and I had high hopes for you to be more aware and enjoy it. Unfortunately you got a nasty stomach bug the weekend before Christmas and were not feeling well at all during Christmas Eve/Day. You were whiney/crabby and cried the entire time. You hated opening presents and slept during much of the celebrations. Oh well, I guess there's always next year!

This is you on Christmas morning. Presents??! AWFUL!!

At least you were excited about the train set your father and I stayed up until midnight on Christmas Eve putting together for you.

This is you during Christmas dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Gooden. More presents!?!? Horrible!!

We also got to celebrate Christmas at the Riegerix's, which is always a lot of fun. You had a great time playing with your aunts/uncles and cousin, Willow.

Another big event this month was our first real snow!! It was the first time you'd really seen snow since you were old enough to pay attention. I think you were pretty excited. We had a good time playing in it together!

I love you so much, Steven! We had a great 2012. Here's to an even better 2013!