Blake is 18 Months!

I see I'm lacking Blake pictures lately. So here are some recent ones of our little bulldozer (my grandma nicknamed him that because he just plows his way around/through things.)

He loves playing with cars and trains.

I found Blake after a nap with his shirt over his head like this.

Having fun in a bin.

He looks so old in his little hat.

Blake is really changing lately - turning into a full fledged toddler - he is 18 months for goodness sakes - when did that happen???!!! At times he can get pretty opinionated about what he wants and throws himself onto the floor if he doesn't get it. But the great majority of the time he is easy going. Much to my dismay, he's running. He's starting to spin around - I've caught him spinning around ON TOP of the coffee table. He loves to throw balls and he's always doing this exaggerated throwing motion and making a loud noise to go along with it to emphasize his throw. And he's (trying to) say so many words. He sounds so cute when he says: "uh oh" (when something gets dropped) and some sounds like "thr ee ah" (meaning there it is). He spends a lot of time sending trains down a ramp in the train track and carrying around "Tata" (Thomas the Train). He recently sang his first song. There is a song we learned last year in Music Class - it's a sweet song about about how Mommies and Daddies come back when they leave because they love you, which has been very comforting to Campbell when we separate. Campbell & I were singing it and Blake chimes in. Not really saying words, but the intonation of it. Something like this: "Mama da da da. Dada da da da. Campbell can get him to sing it and I've caught him signing it on his own when he's eating. It's so interesting because you can tell it's running through his head. If I didn't know the song, I wouldn't realize that's what he's doing, but it's so neat. I wonder if he has a nack for music? As a tiny baby, he loved hearing Gabe sing to him (on the other hand, when Campbell was a baby she would cry harder if Gabe tried to comfort her with singing). On road trips, Gabe and I would sing "You are My Sunshine" over and over and over and over to get him to stop crying and fall asleep. We'll see!

His 18 month well baby stats:

Weight: 27 lbs 10 oz/75%

Height: 34 inches/90%

Head: 20 inches/99%