Pax at 18 Months

He is 1 1/2 years old! This little sweet heart of ours keeps us on our toes and sure makes us happy!

At 18 months old Paxton... 

• is saying lots of new words in addition to the old ones. Most recently... "cool", "oh boy", thank you sounds like "tay too", please sounds like "peas", said "pie dish" as clear as day recently, "go go" when playing with cars/trucks, "Co Co" for Racoco, said "tickle tickle" recently when he was tickling with Grammy, "nigh night"with the t on the last night clearly enunciated, "Papa", "baba" for bottle, "Nana", and of course "mama" and "dada" but he says "MA!" often to get my attention :).
• says "Hey!" or "Hi!" when he walks into a room or greets me in the bathroom :); this is particularly sweet because it pretty much sums up Pax- happy and easy going for the most part.
• says "Roro" and looks around the house when Rowen is at school
• loves books still. His favorite books right now are Wheels on The Bus and Old McDonald. We MUST read books before nap and bed time OR ELSE :(.
• loves to have his shoes on. Pax brings me his shoes and points to his feet.
• still LOVES to be outside any chance he can get. Seriously, this kid is so into being outside. He could be outside all day long if I let him. He pretty much has a temper tantrum every single time it is time to come inside. 
• hums along with me while I hum when rocking him to sleep for nap or bed time.
• no new teeth have come in but his one year molars have just continued to work their way down this past month
•  knows how to be silly and can sure be a ham (as you can see from the photos above).
• says "dada" when he walks into our office/gym even when daddy isn't home.
• LOVES cars! He hasn't been introduced to CARS yet but he loves all of the hot wheels cars we have out. I am sure once he truly discovers Lightning McQueen it will be all about him so I cam putting that off for awhile :). Been there, done that and it was fun but we are in no hurry to return to Radiator Springs every day! 
• Lines his cars up in nice straight rows, races them off the couch, chairs, bed, etc
• loves ice cream! And not much else... well, he eats but he doesn't seem to be crazy about anything in paticular. Pax mostly eats yogurt, cheese, bananas, strawberries, oranges, chicken, mac and cheese, Ritz crackers, pirates booty, 
• continues to have a great sense of humor! He gets how to be silly, how to flirt, how to tease.
• loves the ipad app, ABC Little Animal Explorers
• takes a 2-2 1/2 sometimes 3 hour nap each day and sleeps from about 7:45 p.m. to about 7:00 a.m. if we are lucky. Pax thinks getting up at 5 a.m. ready to hit the toys is no big deal. Mom and dad disagree BIG TIME! But he sleeps all night unless sick or teething badly so we can't complain too much.
• LOVES to dance! He has some pretty cute moves. Recently the boys have been dancing to The Harlem Shake- pretty hilarious!
• goes to music class with mommy every Monday. He loves every minute of it.
• got his first hair cut while 18 months old-towards the very end of the month.
• likes to play "hide and seek" with Rowen. He thinks this is so funny!
• laughs/giggles out loud at "CoCo" every day. He thinks she is very entertaining. He also sits on her and tries to control her but he sure does love her.