Boyd - 21 months

Here we are, just 3 months shy of Boyd's 2-year birthday! I already have most of his Christmas presents purchased, which isn't much to be honest. He's so little and doesn't care about presents, so we're going to take advantage of that and not go crazy with gifts! Plenty of time for that later.

After a long stretch of no snow, we were rewarded with 7 inches overnight during the weekend. Time to get out and play.

• The verbal update: saying snow "-nooooo", dark "daaaa", love you "ya yu", thank you (these last two only happen when prompted).
• If Boyd and I arrive home before D, I'll direct Boyd to "feed the puppy." He'll go to the pantry, pull Drift's hard hat out and remove the cover to the dog food. After a while the helmet will finally get filled and he carries it over to the dining room, where I let Drift in for dinner. Then we bring the hard hat back to the pantry where the cover goes back on the bucket.
• Loves to say "mama" and "dada" in sequence, multiple times. Will also point to things and say whether it's a mom or dad item - like our rubber boots in the entry way.
• Right now he's obsessed with water play and pouring liquid from one container into another. That tends to keep him occupied for 5-10 minutes (which is an eternity in Boyd time!)
• Oh the toddler tantrums. He wants what he wants, when he wants it. Isn't it comical what kids go ballistic over? I wouldn't let him take the snack container into Grandma Ann's house the other morning and you would have thought I cut off his left arm or something.
• Went through a stage of refusing to put on a jacket and throwing a fit when a shirt went over his head. We're mostly over that. 
• Gymnastics has been really great for Boyd. He's still more observant rather than participatory in class, but he's definitely learning new gross motor skills and interacting with the other kiddos. More often than not, he'll break out a move from class at home and totally surprise us. When we play with the parachute in class, he's one of like 3 babies that totally hates going underneath - which is funny because the other kids love it so much. At the end of class this week he yelled out "BUBBLES" when the instructor started blowing them, and he's always so very patient when it is time for stamps. He sits in front of Miss Angel and waits his turn, even when the other kids push in front of him. Oh and D was able to attend this week's class with us because of the Veteran's Day holiday.
• My baby is need of a haircut, mostly in the back, since it currently looks like a redneck mullet. Business in the front, party in the back! 
• He likes to grab any phone (or phone equivalent) and say "haaaaa" for hi. We even caught him handing D's phone off to Drift, as if to say, "it's for you!"
• Still in the stage of saying "uh oh" if he catches anyone not wearing shoes or socks. Bare feet are apparently a cause for concern. 
• He has memorized many pages in the books we read - as in, he understands what is coming next. He still yells "pipe down" when we get to that page in "Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site."
• Mimics us quite a bit - like when D gives Drift insulin (Boyd will grab the scruff of the dog's neck), talking on the phone, petting the animals. 

Fun meetup at the Library with Risha and her littlest nanny charge.

This also keeps him busy quite a bit - plugging items into their charging cords.

New converse shoes!

New cooktop for the rental - D is interviewing prospective tenants this week.

Risha and I attended a local store's 2-year anniversary and received these scarves in a goodie bag. But they were SO TINY. Boyd figured out that they open up to go over your head - duh.

Cool shades.

Nordstrom lunch and shopping with Auntie Risha and Grandma Ann. Apparently Boyd found a friend.