Twenty Months

Aiden is repeating more and more.  His favorite two words right now?  Tigger & Pooh.  He says all the Pooh characters are Tigger until you say the character name and then he says “Pooh”.  Very cute.  He also is understanding to say “please” when he wants something.  Andy was playing with them with his motorcycle helmet and Aiden threw his hands up and said “Please” to have Andy put it on his head.  He loved wearing the helmet.  His asthma and reflux are doing very well and he was sick a little in March, but it wasn’t too bad.  Nothing like last year at this time when we were pulling our hair out trying to figure out why he was coughing.  Aiden is our sweet heart that loves to give hugs.  Aiden will often give hugs to everyone….even if they don’t particularly want a hug.  He’s started throwing fits when something doesn’t go his way in the last few months.  We just distract and keep moving.  Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t.  He still loves balls, and I don’t see that obsession ever going away.  Aiden is a Daddy’s boy and loves playing with Andy.

 

Maxwell still isn’t talking.  Sometimes he’ll say a word or two, but he doesn’t talk like the others do.  All kids are different so we’re not really worried, but we’re still glad that they’re going to start speech therapy soon.  Max’s speech evaluation is actually this Friday, and I’m excited to see what they have to say.  I know he can say words, but he just doesn’t consistently.  Max is running and love loves love Mickey Mouse.  We had to get him his very own Mickey last month, and he loves it.    Max is still a Momma’s boy, but he is opening up to Andy more and more.  Max recently moved up into the toddler room at daycare with all the big toddlers.  He’s only been there for a few days, but seems to have adjusted well.  Max was sick for about a week and a half last month with a virus.  A whole lotta no fun, but he had a good attitude the whole time.

Alexis has been in the toddler room since the first week of April.  She adjusted very well being away from the others, but Max didn’t do so great adjusting to her being gone.  He cried when he would see her at first, but they all gathered together during play time when the toddler and extended nursery  play together.  Alexis has started saying “no”, and during our recent visit to the Easter bunny she cried “No, no, no, no” when she decided she was scared of him.  She’s climbing still, and running things.  She still is the momma of the group, and is very helpful.  She is saying more words, and is even calling for Toodles during The Mickey Mouse Club House episodes.  She enjoys running down the slides we have in the backyard, or jumping down halfway and running/falling the other half. 

Carolyn is still doing well, but has had an ear infection since having her tubes put in.  We have to go back for her follow up appointment soon.  She’s still in the extended nursery with Aiden until May when they will move up to the toddler room with Max and Alexis.  She is still running and climbing.  She really likes picking on her siblings.  The one thing she has to have at night is her Pink Seahorse that lights up and plays music/ocean sounds.  She enjoys putting her hands in her hair when she is eating so we’re trying to break that because it’s pretty disgusting.  She doesn’t seem to mind it though.  She loves peek a boo and is saying a few more words.  She’s been throwing fits, and has several looks that lets you know what she is screaming about.  It’s either excited, annoyed, mad, or wanting something.  She’s not big on jumping down the slide or off things like Alexis is due to the fact that she gets scared easily.