Happy 16 months! I'm still amazed every day by how quickly you are learning and growing!
Some things about you at 16 months:
*You like to help throw your dirty diapers away. You just started doing it on your own one day. When we finish a diaper change you'll get up, pick up the dirty diaper, and walk it over to the trash can and wait for me to open it then you'll toss it in.
*You like to play with stickers. I first bought some a couple months ago but you weren't interested. You found the stickers a couple weeks ago and suddenly decided they were so much fun to play with. You'll bring the sticker pad over to me because you can't peel them off yourself.
*You like to try to get the pups to chase you around and then you'll giggle like crazy.
*You've learned the art of "gasping" with surprise and delight and do it constantly. It's so silly and dramatic!
*If you catch sight of a toy or something hiding underneath furniture, you understand now that you need to crouch down and look underneath to find it, rather than just poking at it until it pushes back out of sight.
*Everything is a phone. The remotes are the most common, but anything will do. You'll hold it up behind your ear and walk around saying "hewwo? oodis? (who's this) dada?"
*You like to "hide" things behind your back, and have also learned the "fakeout" - offering us something then when we reach out for it, pulling it away and giggling
*You have tooth #4 and 5! They both came in around October 30th. Both on the top. The 4th one was the other middle one (on the right). Because you don't let us touch your mouth when you're teething, we didn't even know about tooth #5 (other side of middle left tooth) until I saw it when I was brushing your teeth! It was the same length as #4 so they must have come through at the same time - no wonder you were so fussy!
*You say no to EVERYTHING, even things you actually want! All the books say this is just your way of asserting yourself the only way you know how. So I just offer you things and ignore your verbal no, waiting for you to instead pull it close or push it away.
*You love to help me unload the silverware tray in the dishwasher. You'll hand me each item one by one and I'll put them in the proper drawer. It takes forever, but I think it's worth it.
*You like to sing along with me. If I start singing you'll sing "doodoo, doodoo" with me.
*You now hold your arms out and tug on our pants when you want to be picked up.
*You've figured out how to pull your socks off, and it's a miracle if you keep them on for any length of time. I'm hopeful that as it gets colder you'll realize the value of keeping them on.
*You have several new words. My favorite is "please" which you also sign as you say it. Other words are amen, hello (hewwo), this (dis), cheese, and again (nanen)
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