23 Months Old!

I can't believe it, but we are exactly one month away from Logan's second birthday!  Ahhhh!  As crazy as this seems, Logan really started to make some changes this past month that demonstrated how he is starting to leave the baby stage and move into the toddler stage.  So, it just makes sense that his second birthday is right around the corner.  He has become VERY social and loves it when the cousins or Lia's friends are over.  He is really interested in following them around, doing what they are doing, and making them laugh (mainly by repeating words that they tell him to say).  In addition, he now wants to be up on a big chair at the kitchen table coloring in a coloring book EVERY time he sees Lia making one of her "books."  Logan and Lia have also started to actually play together successfully for several minutes before he starts crying.  Back in the day, he would cry within a minute whenever they were together due to something Lia was doing.  I know that this is partially due to the fact that Lia has made great progress in this department ever since we started a  behavior chart this fall, but it also shows that our little boy is growing up!  He is also head over heals in love with Elmo and Sesame Street.  He loves all of the Elmo stuff he got for Christmas and will now sit down every morning to watch an Elmo movie.  Amazing.  Also, Logan has finally turned a corner in the picking eating department and is almost back to his old self.  He now eats most meats and vegetables again which is absolutely wonderful!  I hope it's not premature to say that I am so grateful to have my good eater back after a few months of finicky eating.  Another funny development in the eating department is that he now LOVES any kind of sauce and request some to be put on his high chair tray any time he sees something on the kitchen table.  Besides the obvious ketchup, Logan loves ranch dressing, hummus, soy sauce, and katsu sauce.  He is just like his dad!  Pretty soon, he will be requesting Ron's hot sauces!  And, lastly, Logan's vocabulary development has continued to be on fire this past month.  He says new words every day (and half of them are without any prompting) and parrots people all the time.  I tried to keep up with documenting every new word, but it is getting to be a bit impossible...but this is what I came up with:  milk, juice, snack, love, panda, TV, downstairs, orange, hand, noodles, eggnog, table, Bryce (his cousin), help, pen, cheek, nice, rice, fish, moose, all gone, "Hi grandpa," flush, trash, cup, ketchup, ranch, seal, cow, clean, zebra, hole, big truck, owl, whale, wall, "are you Papa?," Zoe, Cookie Monster, Oscar, and Grover (all characters from Sesame Street).  Logan will also nod and shake his head in response to many of the yes/no questions that we ask him.  It's so cute and so funny!