Jaxon at 20 Months Old

My little baby is sitting next to me on the couch, where he climbed up holding his sippy and his “Queen” (Lightning McQueen car) telling me, “see-down (sit down), no no drop it moke (milk)”. Wow, they sure do grow up fast! Every day he says more words that I had no idea he knew. Just yesterday, the new ones were: couch, Pluto (Peet-O), red, and teebee (TV). He knows so many words I don’t think I could even list them all.

He’s starting to tell me when he poops.  Not before, so I know we’re not quite ready for potty training yet. He still has no idea what his private parts do (or that they even exist, really), and he’s never even acknowledged when he pees in the bath, which I would assume would be the first ting he’d notice.

He is getting into EVERYTHING, even cupboards with child locks. He’s discovered that if he pulls juuuuuust hard enough, the door will pop open. He’s also learned that if he fiddles enough with the child locks on doors, they’ll pop off and he can get into ANY room he wants....

While we were at Grandma and Grandpa Rogers' house last month, he discovered that he was tall enough to open their fridge and put his sippy on the shelf. He had a blast putting it in the fridge and taking it back out again.

He LOVES swimming. He even wanted to go swimming in freezing cold Wallowa Lake, he just made sure he told me it was cold first.

He learned how to climb out of his pack and play while hanging out at Grandpa Ross and Grandma Marian's house. Bummer!

The other day he even wiggled himself out of the straps of his car seat while I was driving. He was VERY proud of himself until I spanked his bum and told him that was NOT OK! 

He already has some freckles, one on his left cheek, another just inside his hairline, one on his left calf, one of his left upper cheek, and one on his left shoulder. I have NO idea why they’re all on the left side... Not too many, but I definitely notice whenever another one pops up! 

His favorite friends are “Meekee Mouth, Minnie Mouth, Dawn-o, Goopy, Day-thee, and Peete-o”.  

He LOVES ice. He will eat any kind of ice ANY time, over ANY other food, even ice cream and cookies....  If he’s upset or tired, ice will make it better. Otter pops are a super favorite treat of his.

He says prayers, and since we’ve converted his crib to a toddler bed (because he’s been jumping out of his crib) he’s been kneeling next to his bed with us to pray.

He will repeat EVERYTHING we say now, which makes it difficult to know if he wants something or not. He used to just repeat words when he heard me say something he wanted. Now he repeats EVERY. SINGLE. WORD!

He sang “Happy Birthday” all on his own! We were at a birthday dinner for a friend and I had tried to get him to tell this friend happy birthday, but he couldn’t quite figure it out. We sang happy birthday to her, then Jaxon and I left. On the way out to the car Jaxon was riding in the stroller, and I could just barely hear him saying something. As I was putting him in the car I figured out he was singing the Happy Birthday song, and doing it quite well!! He must have listened to us all sing and figured it out!  The other day when Jaxon was hanging out with Grandma Marian, she took him to swing on the swings near the family fale. He saw the fale (where we have all of our family gatherings for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and monthly birthday parties) and ran over there, stood in the fale, and sang Happy Birthday really loud. Grandma LOVED it!

His most common phrases now a days are, “go get some”,  “I see ‘em!” and “hold you” (pick me up!).

He can identify the following motorized vehicles: cars, trucks, BIG trucks (semi’s), jeeps, vans, boats, planes, copter (helicopters), kai-cow (motorcycles), bikes, buses, and trains, fire truck, Sign-ahs (anything with a siren). Whenever he hears a siren motorcycle, helicopter, or plane, he lets me know it, and he always knows which ones they are!

Jaxon can also “spell” his name! We have his name on his wall right above his changing table, so whenever I change him I repeat, “J-A-X-O-N” over and over.  He has recently started to repeat this back, and say it at random times. His version is, “eth-eth-oh-ehn”.

I can’t believe he’s so big. Time sure does fly. Tyler and I love him SO much! Even though Jaxon drives me NUTS sometimes....  there are SO MANY TIMES throughout EVERY single day where I look at him and just think about how smart he is, how adorable he is, and how incredibly lucky Tyler and I are to have him!! Looking at his face makes me SO happy!