Eric at 18 Months

This week Eric reached the halfway point between one and two--which meant he had to go for his last set of baby immunizations.

 

On the questionnaire about developmental milestones, it asked if my baby could say and use at least 20 words.  I thought about it for a minute and wasn't sure--but then checked "yes," thinking he probably could.

 

When we got home I decided to list all of the words Eric uses regularly, just to be sure he had at least 20 . . . and came up with at least 40:

 

dog, kitty, animals, car, truck, tractor, chipper, up, more, go, nurse, shoe, me, park, walk, hop, baby, thank you, spaghetti, cheese, taco, pizza, ice cream, apple, (ba)nana, water, cup, juice, flower, book, no, Jedi, yummy, yucky, stinky, Wiggles, head, hand, hat, hot, owie, popcorn, diaper, duck, bus, piece

 

He also says lots of names, including dada/daddy, mama/mommy, Gpa/Gma, Alaina, Ben, Holly, Becca, Brooke, Luke, and Peeta.

 

He is growing up so fast--I thought I'd record some of his favorite things at this age.

 

Eric loves swimming/playing in water,

 

going for walks--especially to the park--where he is very adventurous,

 

 

 

 

 

singing, watching The Wiggles, playing with trains,

 

 

and looking at books. 

 

Eric's favorite book is called Tractors and has pictures that he likes to point to.  At the end of this book it says, "Would you like to have a tractor like me?  Do you have some jobs for me to do?" and Eric always nods his head and says, "Yes."

Eric loves Jason's truck and landscaping equipment. 

 

 

He pretends to cut trees with anything he can find in the backyard--including a toy curling iron the girls left outside.

 

Eric's favorite foods are tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, lasagne, spaghetti and pizza.  He loves making popcorn with Daddy, and he really loves ice cream--he has recently started eating freezies, too.  He also likes to dip things in ketchup--even tomatoes if they happen to be on his plate :)

 

Unlike any of our other kids at this age, Eric still sleeps in a crib--for naps and the first half of the night.  Like Alaina and Ben, he prefers to sleep with Jason and me when he gets the chance.

 

 



Eric also loves animals--dogs and cats that we see around the neighborhood and cows, goats, horses and pigs that he sees at local farms.

 

Of course, Eric is still best known for his red hair.  Alaina gets jealous (and has said she wishes SHE had red hair) because people constantly stop to comment on this fascinating feature.

 

Eric recently had his first haircut, which made him look tidier--and (gratefully) not TOO much older.

 

 

Needless to say, having this one last baby has been the best thing that ever could have happened to our family.  We love him so much and have so much fun with our little guy!  I just wish time could slow down a bit....