The Spaulding Way

My little boy is growing up so fast! He has learned so many new things in the past couple of months and it has been so much fun! He makes me laugh everyday and I can't believe how much I love him and how much joy he brings me. There are no words for amount of joy he brings me and how much I love him. I can't kiss or hug him enough. I know one day he won't let me kiss or hug him the way I do now so I don't let a chance go by to squeeze him.
At his 18 month Dr. appointment here was his stats,
Weight....26 1bs 4 oz........76%
Height.....33 3/4 in............88%
Head Cir..48.5 cm.............79%

Here are some things I would like to remember about Christopher at this age:

*Favorite toy is cars (see picture above)
*Favorite thing is his blanky
*Favorite food is yogurt (loves to eat it by himself with a spoon)
*Favorite song is "If your happy and you know it" (He loves the part "shout hooray" He puts his arms up and says "Yay"it's actually the only part of the song he does)
*Loves to play outside
*Points to where he wants to go or wants me to go
*Knows where his belly button is
*Knows what a dinosaur says and a dog says and a bear says
*Loves to imitate anything we do or say...we better watch ourselves :/
*Words he says,
        "Day Do" (Thank you) (this is my favorite, he will bring me things and say thank you because that is what I say to him when he brings me things)
         "Mama" "Dada" "Na" (Rhona) "Ko" (Rocko) "Ah Da" (All Done) "Mo" (More) "Go Go Go"    "No" "Stop" "Ball" "Car" "What"
*likes to knock on doors
*Loves to dance. He will dance whenever he hears music, whether it is in the store, the car or at home. It started out as a squat, then side to side sway, then a back and forth sway and now he does all of them plus great arm motions. Dancing is in his blood!
*Loves his doggies! He loves to tease them. Rocko scares easily and CJ thinks it is hilarious
*Hates to have his diaper changed or get dressed
*Blows kisses, High Fives and does The Rock/Pound It
*Waves bye bye and waves nigh night
*Still the smiliest boy ever. It is the first thing everyone always says about him when they see him
*Just learned how to jump (he doesn't get off the ground yet) and loves to do it on my bed or in his crib
*Loves nursery!
*Is a people watcher.....whenever we get around other people, especially people he doesn't know he stands and watches them very closely before he gets comfortable and starts to play or get engaged in the activity.
*Very energetic but cautious at the same time.
*Just starting to be picky about food
*Loves to play and wrestle with his daddy but when he is sad or in pain he wants only his mommy

He watched them play tennis for almost 10 minutes!

This train went around a huge track and CJ followed it all the way around pointing to it. He loved it!

Everyone was happy about mommy spilling the veggie straws

I love these two!

When Jennifer told me she would fly CJ and I out to her house if I would babysit her kids for a few days I immediately said "Yes!". It doesn't take much convincing when an opportunity to see any of my family comes up. 

I was so nervous about this plane ride to Vegas. We had one stop and didn't have to change plans which was the good part but the flight time all together was about 6 hours. Yikes! I prepared the ultimate activity/treat bag for CJ with all new toys and activities. CJ's last plane ride at 14 months didn't go so well and I was so exhausted after it that I wasn't sure how this was going to go. My preparation paid off and I was one lucky mama. It went so smoothly and CJ was an angel on the plane. We definitely did everything in the bag twice and he ate more cookies than I have ever given him in his life, which isn't very many if any at all. :/ But..... I was one happy mama after and so was CJ.

 This kid makes me laugh everyday! On this particular day we arrived home after some shopping and I parked the car and turned around to see him like this. I guess he loves his feet as much as I do!!