He has finally hit the 20 lb threshold...but just barely. I think he was 20.5 lbs!!! He is 10th percentile for weight, 20th for head circumference and 50th for height.
Abygail loves pretending that she is the pediatrician...Dr. Barbara as we like to call her. She came with us so she could get her flu shot too. While there she enjoyed watching all the things Dr. Barbara was doing. At one point Jackson started getting fussy and she said, "Dr. Barbara, I think Jackson is ready to go home now." We laughed and Dr. B. said she would hurry so that Jackson could go home. (She really says the funniest things, I need to start blogging them down so that I'll always have a good laugh).
Jackson has become quite the little talker. He loves learning new words, the parts of his body and animals. Here is a sampling of what he knows:
Animals: cow, frog, cat, dog, elephant, giraffe, fish, turtle, duck, bear, monkey, gorilla, and my personal favorite - monster :)
Body parts: nose, eyes, ears, mouth, head, knees, feet, belly, and my personal favorite - tongue
Words: nose (nooo), eye (I), ear (eaw), head (hea), belly(belbe), juice (ju), milk (mil), soda (doda), cracker (cackew), bear (beaw), Bill (as in Little Bill the show - it's his favorite), daddy, mommy, baby, no, poopy, pizza (peda), apple (appa), paint (pain), ball (baaa) and my personal favorite - dirty (deeeeerdieeeeee)
He understands so much too. I would say he understands about 80% of what we say (or more). He likes to help clean up, as well as make a mess with the movies. He loves to finger paint too. His favorite foods are: anything breakfast (pancakes, frenchtoast, eggs), black olives, rasins, apples - really any fruit, carrots, peanut butter (as long as it's just on a spoon), and milk. He's still comfortably wearing some of his 6-9 month clothes and starting to wear 12 month clothes. Pants usually fall right off his waist but his 6-9 month pants are getting too short.
He's a wonderful sleeper and I'm so grateful for that. I hope he can teach his baby siblings to sleep just as well (and his big sister too). He has a blanket that he adores and we can NEVER put him to bed with out it, it usually comes everywhere with us - but it keeps him so happy.
I almost forgot to say...he has 3 front teeth on bottom now and 4 front teeth on top and he's getting in one of his molars.
He is such a sweet and happy little boy. We love watching him grow and learn.
What an adorable little boy Jackson is! I am pleased that he is so healthy and happy. We really miss him. It sounds like Abygail and Jackson really enjoy each other. They are so cute together
ReplyDeleteWow, Amber. Jaden is wearing 18month clothes, but his vocabulary isn't nearly as vast as Jackson's is. Jaden loves his belly button. He uses it like a security blanket when he's going to sleep. He doesn't talk much. I think he understands plenty, though.
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