21 Months

Generally I'd say it's been the month of animal sounds and using a spoon. He was doing both before but they really took off. He does tons of animal sounds now and has mastered using a spoon.

When Hot Cup & I have cereal & milk we know he's going to be asking for bites. Well, one time I had some Cheerios & milk while he was still in his highchair from his breakfast and he took my bowl and spoon from me and ate them himself. It's funny he'd never taken his breakfast from me to do that. Breakfast is still his favorite meal of the day and he always eats every last bite of oatmeal & yogurt.

This month I also discovered he loves Kraft Mac & Cheese. I'd make mac & cheese for him back when I was making his baby food, but when he went to finger foods he didn't like touching it, and I hadn't tried in a really long time.



He still loves letters and knows all of them and can say at least half of them. His favorite letter is E.

> One day he brought this rake to me saying "E! E! E! E! E! E!" (A common reaction to the letter E.) And then, in case I needed clarification, he took a couple Es from the bananagrams bag we'd been exploring a little earlier.


He likes matching (letters, shapes, colors).

To tell us no he shakes his head. But to tell us yes, at the beginning of the month he'd make a super excited noise and expression. It was really adorable and isn't completley gone. But now he verbalizes yes. He says dey for yes. Sometimes it's more like dee or dees.

He says da referring to Hot Cup, but at 21 months he was still not saying mom.

Hot Cup taught him to throw up his hands and say yay! after getting his teeth brushed. He says it every time now and uses yay! at other times too.

He's doing great with sign language.  Hot Cup helped him with please and thank you and he picked it up pretty quick.  Now when we share a snack he takes the bowl away and has me sign please to get it back.

When we were at my parents' for New Year's my mom discovered that he likes to help load and unload the dishwasher. I knew he liked to take stuff from the dishwasher to play with, but it turns out he is just as happy to help. That's been fun :)

He's also great at putting toys away, not that we're very good at always having him do it. Some of them he puts away on his own.

When he thinks something is pretty neat he says oooo. We first noticed this when it was his reaction to Christmas lights.

More Pictures
> Coloring in the shapes.
> Train Puzzle!
> Train Whistle!


> Enjoying Christmas Decoration Boxes


(Because he was 21 months 10 days ago: )
Since 21 Months ...
> He knows how to get the train whistle to whistle.
> He says mom. Usually only when I ask him to, but he says it slowly and carefully and with a smile and knows that I love it when he does.
> He throws away trash.
> He might be saying no. It doesn't happen a lot and it's more of a long whine: nnnoooooooo.