19 Months!

It's been so terribly long since I've done a straight-up Jude update.  What to say?  What's not to say, he's changing so quickly.  The baby is quickly disappearing :(  My one consolation is that a pretty terrific little boy is taking his place.  To remain in babydom for a minute, I'll give his stats.  It's funny that that's really the only update when they are infants, but now it's something I rarely think of.  Actually, I just realized that I only know his weight- at 18 months he was 28 lbs.  As such, he gained 16 pounds his first nine months of life, and 4 pounds his second nine months of life.  Ha!  At his check-up he was 75th percentile weight, 75th percentile height, and 75th percentile head.  Proportional!  A first!  I'm happy that entering the normal range, it was tiring having such a freakishly large baby.  With the way he is eating lately however, not sure we're not heading back there.  What else?  I don't mean to brag, but he speaks perfect gibberish.  He has a large vocabularly of English words- so boring- (just kidding it's pretty much favorite thing)  but when it comes to speaking in sentences, he has a language all is own.  And it's very convincing.
On a daily basis I have a "wait, you can't possibly know that" moment with him.  Isn't it nice to have a mommy who has so much confidence in you, Jude?  Like this morning he picked up the letter "O" and said "O."  huh?  I was certain it was a fluke until he later pointed at "S" and said, you guessed it, "S."  He does have a bit of an obsession with letters including his belief that any and all should sing the alphabet song whenver he requests it, so I guess it makes sense that he would actually learn the letters.  Still surprises me.






Here's Jude learning about magnifying glasses at Star K Kids (a nature program we enjoy).  At least he won't be burning up ants anytime soon: