18 Months and Loving It!

I had my 18 month doctor's appointment last week, so I thought I'd update you on my statistics:

 

I weigh 25.1 pounds - about the 60th percentile.

I am 32.75 inches tall - about the 50th percentile.

My head is 18.25 inches - about the 25th percentile.

 

I also realized it's been quite some time since I said what my favorite things are - so here are My Favorite Things part 2:

 

• My favorite food is blueberries (or any fruit, for that matter)
• My favorite clothes are fleece footy jammies - with as cold as it has been, it's so nice and comfy to sleep in these
• My favorite nickname is "Lukey" - this is what Uncle Chris calls me.  I love it when he comes over!
• My favorite TV show is Blue's Clues.  I even have the dances down, especially "Mail Time"
• My favorite movie is Dumbo - I love to pick out all the animals and make their sounds
• My favorite thing to hold is 2 sippy cups, at the same time - I can't ever decide what I want to drink so if I hold them both, I can trade off flavors
• My favorite past time is emptying the kitchen drawers - it drives Mommy crazy!
• My favorite day is Sunday - now that we have early church, I'm able to get my naps in, but also I get to go to nursery and play with my friends for 2 hours!
• My favorite time of the day is bath time - I love to play with my water instruments that I got for Christmas 

• My favorite song is "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" - but in reality, I love all songs.  Sometimes I make Mommy or Daddy turn on the iPod so that I can just dance!
• My favorite animal is a dinosaur - I love to growl
• My favorite toy is a play kitchen that I got from Aunt Jill and Aunt Janeen for Christmas - it took Daddy about 4 hours to put it together and I was so excited to play with it the next day!
• My favorite thing to say is "What's that?"  I am very inquisitive.
• My favorite story is "Tubby Time" - but I do like all books.
• My favorite game is tag - me and Mommy run around the kitchen island every single day playing this!
• My favorite dance is ...... GANGNAM STYLE (obviously)  Maybe one day I'll actually do it on camera.

Way Overdue!

I am so sorry!  This post is way overdue!  I've sort of been busy hiding in the pantry :)

This announcement is way overdue - we have known about it now for 1 month, so please excuse the delay in letting everyone know:

Now I am not a big brother yet - I am learning how to prepare to become one.  Mommy and Daddy want me to be able to have a little brother or sister close to my age, so we are APPROVED to adopt again!  If any of you know of anybody considering adoption, please let them know about our blog so that they can come learn about our family.  You can also let them know that we can be found on www.itsaboutlove.org.  Our profile number is 28300761 (https://www.itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/28300761/ourMessage.jsf).

 

Wish us luck!

What Happened to 2012?

Boy, oh boy, am I so far behind!  Where to even start?  Well, I'll just tell you about my holidays, how's that?

 

Before we celebrated Christmas, we decided to celebrate the Mayan "end of the world."  Miss Amanda and her family came over on December 20th and we ate homemade Cafe Rio pork salads, drank Mexican apple cider, and had Choco-tacos for dessert.  I gave a present to Miss Amanda, and she gave me two awesome presents - just see my excitement in the following pictures:

 

First, I got a giraffe measuring chart.

And I also got my very own overstuffed chair, complete with an ottoman!

She definitely spoiled me - it was so fun to see her and her family!

Since the end of the world didn't happen on the 21st, we decided to celebrate Christmas.  On Christmas Eve, Santa took a break from visiting houses all over the world to make a quick stop at Grandma & Pompa's house.  I was so excited to see him and say "oh oh" to him.

Matching pajama time!

Mommy and Daddy thought that I wouldn't be excited to wake up Christmas morning, but guess what?  I woke up at the same time everybody else did!  So I got to sit on the stairs with my cousins until it was okay for us to go out and see what Santa brought us.

My stocking was so stuffed with lots of fun presents...

But I was so excited when I pulled out my own candy cane full of Reese's Pieces!

Christmas sure was fun, and I was very spoiled, of course.

Daddy got to spend the Christmas break at home - we spent a lot of time cleaning up and rearranging things, but we'll talk about that later.

Then it was time for New Year's Eve - Daddy and Mommy's families came over for small snacks and to play games.  I didn't get to stay up until midnight though :(  This is the picture right before bedtime.

And this is the picture of all of Daddy's family that came to the party.

Time certainly flies by, and its a new year with a lot of new things for me to learn this year.  I thought of a few things that are my resolutions:

1 - say more words
2 - help clean up toys
3 - be even more adorable than I already am (this will be hard for me)

HAPPY 2013!