Height- 33 3/4 inches (50%)
Weight- 24 lb. 2 oz. (78%)
Head- 18 1/2 inches
Oh, Lawson. You are CRAZY. That's what we most often say about you lately. You march to the beat of your own drum. You are such an adorable little nut!
At 18 months, you:
- sleep: You're awesome. You take one afternoon nap every day, and you're pretty flexible on the timing of it. I try to plan it around Crawford's nap, which has been hit or miss lately. You always sleep at least 2 hours, but lately it's been more regularly 3 whole hours. You generally go to bed around 8pm, but again, that's flexible. We've been playing outside with our new (awesome!!) neighbors a ton, and that has pushed bedtime back a few times, and you're totally cool with that. Granted, you don't sleep in any later, so wake up time is almost always around 7am, regardless of bedtime (you did sleep until NINE one day last week!).
- food: You are a pretty decent eater, but throwing food is your vice. It makes me crazy, and you get lots of spankings. Though, you really don't even care about much discipline. Sometimes you cry, other times you just glare at me.
- clothes: You're wearing 18mo-2T stuff. The cloth diapers make your bottom so much bigger, so you and C are wearing some of the same shorts!
- words: You don't say a ton, but you know what you want! You say: please (peeees/pwee pwee pwee), thank you, no, cheese, donut (nut nut), mommy, daddy, Harley, more, bye bye, Hi, all done, uh oh, cookie, ball, truck
- blow kisses by sticking your whole finger in your mouth, and we LOVE it.
- run with your arms flailing to the side.
- are totally a class clown. You try to make people laugh, and you laugh when other people (even adults) do.
- LOVE Celeste, the (3 month old) baby next door.
- refuse to hold hands (so you get held when we're walking anywhere, and you hate it.)
- generally hate to be restrained in anyway.
- need to have a napkin in your lap for meals like all the big people do.
- have finally gotten past all the separation anxiety that I feel like you struggled with for so long. You sometimes cry for a second when we leave you at church, but you perk up right away. You go to the childcare at the gym (with Ms. Jessica & Ms. Emily) and immediately ask for this little green ball.
- balls are your favorite toy! You like to sleep with one a lot of the time, and almost every time you get out of bed you want to run to the playroom to find the basketballs.
- are as defiant as the day is long. You run away from me with such determination, it's scary.
- are a daredevil! You stand up on the four wheeler, slide down slides on your belly, and climb up and/or jump off everything.
- consequently, you are always injured. You chipped your front tooth falling out of a chair at the Linhosses house, Crawford gave you a black eye by throwing a toy in your face, and your knees are permanently scraped and bruised.
- are a blondie! I still can hardly believe I have a blonde-headed baby.
