19 months

Yes, we're still alive; I promise.  Life just gets in the way of posting when I (think I) "should" lol.

This month:

• Emmett played in his first fort.  I don't think he quite knew what to think of it.  He'd only go inside if I was in there too.
• He loves to pray and will fold his arms when he wants us to say a prayer.  It is so adorable.
• When the Christmas lights were up, the first thing he wanted to do in the morning was turn them on.  He would point and grunt until we turned them on.
• He was fascinated by grandma's olive wood nativity set, especially Baby Jesus.
• He once picked up said Baby Jesus and gave it a hug -- it was the sweetest thing!
• He loves to point at the ornaments on the Christmas tree and have us say what they are.  And if we miss that he's pointing at them, he'll start ripping them off the tree.
• My parents had a set of 3 lighted snowmen out in the front yard, and Emmett liked to go see each of the snowmen and touch their noses.
• He liked to tap/touch each of the red lighted balls suspended from the porch.
• He got some new bath toys for Christmas that swim around the tub, and he LOVES them!
• He LOVES playing with the Little People train he got for Christmas.
• He loves the book Llama Llama Nighty Night
• He was so excited about the Sesame Street toys he got for Christmas (a stuffed Cookie Monster and Elmo as well as a Cookie Monster mp3 player toy) In fact, right after opening the stuffed animals, he held them up to his neck and hugged them.
• He loves the PBS kids app because he can watch Sesame Street on our phones!
• He sure can watch Sesame Street...I swear, he'd watch it all day if I'd let him!
• He is becoming the king of tantrums!  But once he realizes that we're ignoring him he usually stops pretty quickly.
• He started to fight us less when we were brushing his teeth, but has since resumed fighting us every night when it's time to brush his teeth.
• He has figured out how to unlock the sliding glass door, but thankfully hasn't started opening it.
• He will put on grandma's yellow slip-on shoes when he wants to go outside.  (He noticed that I'd slip them on when we went outside and now thinks that putting them on = going outside)
• He doesn't really say much even if we ask him, unless we bribe him with Sesame Street/fruit snacks/candy
• He has started wanting to hold our hand when we put him down for bed and will stick his hand through the crib slats if we don't stick our hand in.

The poor guy had a fever all of Christmas day and wasn't really interested in ANYTHING (except for his light-up CAT trucks, but even that was halfhearted).  We took him in the next day and he had a nasty ear infection.  After a round of antibiotics and at his checkup 3 weeks later, it was still infected, so he just finished up another round of antibiotics.  Hopefully that'll clear his ear up.  He's currently had a little bit of a cold (stuffy nose + cough) and has had a fever off and on, so I hope he gets feeling better soon!  There's nothing worse than seeing someone you care about feeling miserable and not being able to do anything about it!

 I love that if you look closely, it looks like he's got a little goatee going on; he'd been eating black beans lol.

 Reading to himself

 With daddy

 Cheesing for the camera

Wearing Grandma's yellow shoes

Daddy reading a book for Emmett.  I stopped the tape right before Emmett really got into it and was laughing.  Oops!