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21 Months!

At 21 Months Dean is continuing to talk more every day. He's started putting together small sentences, 2 words or so. He still loves apple juice, but can also ask for "milk" by name. He asks to "seat" whenever we pass by a chair or bench of any sort, and if he sits on the front stoop he pats beside him to tell me to sit too. He loves all sorts of trucks and trains "vroom-vrooms or choo-choos", and since we have lots of them in town he loves to point out when he can hear or see them, but doesn't enjoy when the trains are too close. He can almost jump, and still runs crazily all over. He can give kisses (though pretty much only to mum) and hi-fives and pound it. He learned to say puppy when we were at a birthday party with some crazy pugs :) and now any time he hears a puppy barking he says "PUPPY!" He also calls all our cats Bo, although we think he knows that the black one is the only one who is actually named Bo. He loves his baff, and showers, and starts asking about them as soon as we get home from school. When the bath is all gone he says "bye baff" and we get ready for bed. He likes to ride his little foot-powered 4-wheeler all around outside, preferrably backwards down the driveway, and then he laughs like a maniac when I catch him. He's still in size 6 shoes (though that won't be too much longer), size 5 diapers, and size 24 months or 2T clothes, but the pants are often too long!

"Helping" Daddy!

Steps

Dean loves to go up and down steps, including the 2 steps to get up into our house, but normally he waits until I'm there to hold my hand and step up. He barely holds my hand, and could easily do it on his own, but I guess he liked the security :)
Yesterday, however, he went up both steps all on his own!! Such a big boy!

Wordless Wednesday

More funny things

Dean has recently become very interested in cars, or "vroom-vroom" and in trains, or "tchoo-tchoo" (the way he says it is much more like tutu than choo-choo). Last night after school we had to sit and watch the train for about 5 minutes before we could say bye-bye to the train. He got some cars from a friend of ours this weekend and now insists upon sleeping with them (what a cuddley lovey, no?)
He also loves to go outside, and says "side" when he either wants to go out, or sees the outside in a book. He can now say bubbles as well, and so asks to blow bubbles ALL the time! He tries to blow them occasionally, but mostly just likes to chase them around.

20 Months!

Dean is 20 months old now! At 20 months ***he has started repeating all kinds of words, though if you ask him "can you say grammy? or can you say egg?" he'll often just look at you and say "Yes"***He still loves to run and climb on EVERYTHING!***He knows most of the animals in Goodnight Gorilla, although he calls the armadillo "uh-oh" and if you ask him what the gorilla says he puts his finger to his lips and says "shhh" That's a fun grocery store game!***He wears size 5 diapers, size 6 shoes, and his clothes are either 24months or 2T***He loves to eat, if breakfast isn't ready when he gets to school he is MAD***He calls every drink apple juice, and will say "more juice" when he runs out***He loves to wear hats, particularly his dad's***He says uppa and then down when he wants up and down***He asks to blow bubbles by pretending to blow a bubble at me***He loves to throw balls and play "catch"***He knows all the parts of his face, and likes to point at our faces and say "eyes, nose, mouth"***