This little man hitting 21 months really snuck up on me. The 17th came around so fast this month and I just can’t believe how much this guy is growing. 21 Months was also huge because I knew shortly after he hit that we would be welcoming a second child into the world and that was their age gap. What a crazy month this has been! 

 

 

Peanut,

 

I really cannot believe another month has gone by that quickly! This stage is so different than any stage we have experienced yet. You are learning so much and you want to learn so much that it results in lots of meltdowns. They always tell you the toddler years are the worst because toddlers are in that whole terrible twos thing and it’s just stressful. I do agree that toddler years are definitely trying and they definitely aren’t easy, but I know it’s because you are wanting to discover so much and I think that is amazing. You only get frustrated because you can’t communicate what you are trying to get across or because you aren’t understanding what it is we are communicating to you. It’s all about teaching you to communicate and formulate those words and ideas that you need to get across what you are trying to say. You are like a sponge soaking everything up.

 

 

You are still in this stage where you repeat a lot of what we say. Your dad always says “oh boy” all dramatic like and you have started to do the same thing and it makes me laugh every time. I also finally got you to say your sister’s name, “Weese” is what you call her and it is the cutest. I can’t wait to hear you call her that when she is here. You love going into her room and saying “this sissy’s” over and over. I am not sure quite how much you understand, you may think she is some invisible person we reference so much, but I cannot wait to see how you interact with her.

 

 

You have all of a sudden decided to become a big boy over night. You ask to walk everywhere. You don’t want to sit in a shopping cart, which that’s the one place I really can’t allow you to walk because you get into everything. But you walk yourself to the car. You walk yourself to church. You walk yourself to class at church. You rarely sit in the stroller anymore. You are such a big boy. You put up a fight when we eat out too now, so it’s becoming an even more rare thing we do these days. I guess you’re just trying to save us money.

 

 

Your favorite toy right now is the big cardboard box that mommy’s glider came in. You play in that thing every night. Not sure why you have so many toys with the amount of joy that box brings you. Whenever you get hurt you run over to me or your daddy and say “mwah” asking for a kiss to make it “all booter.” You are way advanced for your age in all the words and sentences you are beginning to formulate it is really cool.

 

 

I am so excited to see what this next month brings for us little man. You stepping into role of big brother, I cannot wait to see you in action.

 

Until next month,

 

Mommy.