20 months

Remember that time I used to blog about Graham's monthly milestones?

Yeah.... so I got behind.

We somehow completely missed his 18 month dr. appointment, woops. So we went recently when he was actually 20 months old.

He's growing and maturing every day. It's the most amazing thing to watch and witness. He is daily adding to his list of words and blows us away with his associations. I mean, he will think of something or see something anywhere and turn our heads to make eye contact and use his limited words to try and tell us the story about what made him remember. An example is with Uncle B (of course). There is this sculpture park of turtles and snakes etc. near B's house that he has taken G to a few times. In the bath a couple of weeks ago, he picked up his little turtle squeeze toy and showed it to Matt and said "B" over and over. Matt didn't know why he was doing this, so he just kept telling him that B was at his house. That only frustrated Graham and then he started saying "guitar" and "B" over and over. Matt finally understood and said that "yes, you went to the Turtle Park and played guitar with B" which was exactly the story that G was trying to tell him. Graham just smiled at Matt clearly excited that he had gotten his point across. That is just one example. He does this all the time. He made pancakes with Laura and my brothers last week and when I asked him if he wanted to help me make pancakes this past Saturday, he started saying "Laura, Laura, Dre-Drew (which is the name he calls all of the boys)" over and over. He just keeps repeating himself until you look at him and repeat the story and acknowledge what he's trying to tell you.

He is quite the collector. We can't leave the house without all of the following: his guitar puzzle piece, his keys hooked to his pants, his yuh-yuh, bink, his stuffed Woody, and any other small item that he may be attached to at that moment. It's soooo annoying! I hear that it's just a phase. Gosh I hope so.

He is also very into calling us all.day.long. He'll call out to me and I'll tell him that I'm washing dishes. He'll come hug my leg, walk over to the table, then call me again. It's been like 10 seconds, I haven't moved. He'll call me, no matter where we are, every few minutes. He does it with Matt too. We just respond like broken records "I'm right here Graham, right where I was a minute ago, haven't moved."

Food update. G is still extremely picky. His favorites are still yogurt, cheddar duck crackers, raisins, grapes, strawberries, clementines, blueberries, other berries, bananas, wheat pitas.... you wouldn't know that we try to get him to eat other things all the time. He does looove a chip, pita or tortilla. So we recently introduced him to hummus and home-made salsa. Who knew that the child that rejects any and every vegetable would eat salsa? Well he does. He also has begun eating cheese quesadillas dipped in salsa, PB&J on occasion, and he'd probably dip everything in ketchup if I let him. But I don't. Did you know that there's high fructose corn syrup in there? Trader Joes does sell a pure ketchup...so we let him have that on occasion. He just wants to lick it really. Little weirdo.

Ok, I think that's enough updating. He'll change again tomorrow.

At his dr. apt. we got his latest stats:

Height: 31.5 (14th percentile)

Weight: 22 lbs. (4th percentile)

Head Circumference: 18.5 in. (20th percentile)