One and a HALF

Our Sam-Man is 18 months (well almost 19 now but just pretend I blogged this on September 20) and he is fun as ever!
He will jump without actually leaving the floor! He tries to run faster than the big kids and he laughs hysterically and runs faster if you say you are going to get him. He also really loves music and dancing. It is too cute to see him dance and he does it all by shrugging his shoulders and moving his cute booty side to side or up and down. It's too cute!!!

He loves hugs and kisses, even from a scarecrow! He is still loving his pacifier and burp cloth as his blanky but we are limiting the pacifier for bedtime only.

He only wants to eat if he thinks he is 100% in charge of the process and you can forget it if he sees you cutting something he is going to eat.

He is a picky eater and a messy eater but we love him all the same!

He is trying to talk. He has several words or sounds for things, such as mama, dada, ball, bye-bye, uh-uh for uh-oh, na for snack, ca-ca for cracker, mo for more and a few others. However, we are going to have to step up with teaching him some animal sounds and other important speech things like that. He is definitely a 3rd child as he just goes with the flow. We love him and will do anything for him but we just haven't really thought about teaching him some very simple, yet important things...oops!!! Plus, he has 2 big kids around the house that are making more than enough noise and keeping his parents a little preoccupied!!! (His doctor thinks he may have a speech delay. At this point, I believe he is fine but we are stepping it up in the speech department just to be sure.)

He is still sweet as ever but he can pitch some very entertaining and loud temper tantrums. He is doing great and we love him to pieces!

It's been a LOVELY year and a half with our Sam-Man, Sam I Am, Sam Coop, or just Sweet Sam.