19 months!

Daddy's shoes... big shoes to fill!

So I realized that when I posted Core's 18 month pics,  I didn't really elaborate on his new habits, activities, and sayings so here goes...

Things he's saying these days:
- "Dada" most of the time, and just about every morning when he wakes up
- "Mama" is now heard more often than it used to be and when going to school he says " Bye Mama"
- Hankey
- Sit Hankey ( and Core then gives Hank a treat)
- All done!
- "Where'd  it go" or "Where'd he go"
- Go, Go, Go
- All aboard
- Happy Plate
- LuLu ( for his lovie)
- I sit...  and "sit here".
- A, B, C, D...  ( this is how far he gets with the alphabet on his own)
- 1, 2, 3... Go!
- Ba-by and "rock baby" (as he sits in his rocking chair which he can now get in all by himself)
- Golfcart!!!
- Night Night
- Bath time
- Bye- Bye
- Horse, (loves horses)
- L-S-U, Go Ti-GERS!
- Touchdown!
- cereal bar bar
- O's please ( this is cheerios)
- please  ( he has to be prompted)
- thank you ( again, he has to be prompted)
- books... blocks... balls.
- Cookie ( thanks Nana)
- Nana
- Papa
- Mammie ( this is for Gammie, not quite there yet)
- Pop ( this is for Poppie, not quite there yet)
- Paw Paw (  great grandpa, paw paw Floyd)
- No No Nat Nat... ( thanks Poppie and Gammie).  For those of you who may not know, I was told this
   quite frequently when I was Core's aga (and a little older), so my parents started saying it to Core as
   as well, as he certainly inherited my stubbornness and it didn't take him long to pick up on the
   saying!
- My-My ( for Maya our cat); poor Mikey hasn't been renamed anything yet.
- WHY? after we say anything, he then asks why?  (he started with this one a little early I think)
- Duck ( he loves to go the the window and look for the ducks outside)
- Fish- es
- and he makes many animal sounds... Grrrr, Mooo, Quack, Baaa, Ruff Ruff,  Neigh and of course
  MeOW.
- he's also learing the names of his classmates and said "Jackson" yesterday when Ipicked him up from
   school
- and pretty much anything we say these days, he will now repeat without hesitation!  So the moral of
  this story is to be careful what you say, around these tiny ears!

He's into everything and very resourceful I might add, as this picture shows.

Activites:

He's......

- running

- laughing ( and he has his daddy's laugh for sure)

- jumping

- dancing

- singing

-coloring

-feeding himself independently ( and  he uses his spoon very well most of the time)

- drinking from a big boy cup without a lid (at school, we haven't tried yet at home bc I prefers not

   to have a mess)

- trying to read books all on his own

- he can now climb on the couch without using his block box as his stepping stool

- brushing his teeth ( since my previous post regarding this topic, we have made much improvement in

   accomplishing this task, thankfully, sheesh!)

- loves to give kisses and hugs ( sweet boy)

He's a VERY active boy and keeps us on our toes for sure. As you can see from the above pictures, he a smart little one and can figure out how to get where he wants to be.

Favorite foods these days:

- Hummus ( still a front runner, and it's Roasted Red Pepper hummus to be exact)

- Cheerios ( loves them all... regular, honey nut, and apple and cinnamon)

-CHEESE

- Chicken ( any way)

- BACON... Loves it.

- avocados

-fish sticks... preferably salmon ones

-Corn

- peas

- potatos... (mashed or as fries)

- Fruit... all kinds- bananas, blueberries, strawberries, apples, cantalope, watermelon, kiwi, peaches,

  and pears

- Yogurt

- pudding

- crackers

- cookies ( nilla wafers and animal cookies), and cookie cake as we recently learned

- pasta noodles with butter

- grits

Core seems to get taller everyday and he's becoming more and more talkative. He's becoming his own little person and it's so AMAZING to see him grow and develop his own little personality.

Hank hanging in his brother's room.

Core's best friend, other than Daddy of course.