14 months old

Oh goodness, it gets harder and harder to update this...but I love writing these things down.

Casey is doing awesome. He is still getting over a nasty bronchitis/ear infection, but he is definitely feeling better. We are getting the giggles we love so much. His antibiotics are a pain, he can't have milk 2 hours before or after, so we have been doing formula again around med time. Luckily we are almost done.

Casey is working hard on talking! He has mastered Uh-oh, it used to be uh-uh. He says doggy (without the g sound) and he says Dada and means it! He also mastered nana, and ba, but hasn't quite put them together for banana- his most favorite food ever. He seems to know mama, but doesn't always use it. This morning Ryan swears he said ello, when Ryan said "do you have jello?" He is definitely imitating sounds. Casey also answers your questions with "yea"....to every questions. It's pretty adorable. When he wants your attention, he will come up and say "eh?" until you answer him:)

This month Casey started at a full day preschool. He still goes just part time, but he is adjusting well, and interacting well. The teachers at his school all have to have a Bachelors degree, and are all bilingual, so Casey is learning Spanish, lol. I went to pick him up and he was sitting with 4 other kids on a rug with his teacher, Miss Cynthia, who was reading in Spanish, then English. Adorable. Miss Cynthia said Casey is warming up to the other kids (they are all 1-2 years old) and participating. They are curriculum based and have lots of fun. We get a classroom newsletter on what they are working on each week, so we can reinforce it at home. Casey painted the other day, the first time he didn't want to, but this time he held his hand out for paint when his little friends did. (Already influenced by his peers, oh man!) He danced with them, and sits nicely at circle time. They feed him breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks per day. We are really happy so far. This morning, he smiled and laughed when we pulled up. He is adjusting to naps there, which are on a cot in the classroom. This week they are focusing on the color red, and fire trucks. Last night, when he was at the gym daycare, he ran and found a red truck and brought it to us very proudly...he is learning! Smart kid!

On New Years we headed to Spokane to meet up with our good friends Casi and Chamisa, who were in town from Missouri, where Dr. Chamisa is interning at the Univerity of Missouri. We went to Chuck E Cheese...which Casey loved! He did try to steal some skee balls- and was pretty mad when I stopped him! He had lots of fun on the toddler slide, and even found a little friend, a cute little girl whose butt he patted! So funny! She taught him to go down the slide backwards, which he then took home and went down the entire set of stairs backwards! Yay! We had been working on going down stairs, but it wasn't clicking till a little 15 month old cutie taught him how. We won't tell his girlfriend, Maya.

He is quickly outgrowing his 18 month clothes. He is very long in the torso, and has a big belly, so he isn't fitting well into 18month shirts, we are doing mostly 2T. His 18 month pants still fit, but his 18 month jammies are getting tight. Such a big boy! Still 97% for height:)

We are just plugging along after the holidays, back into the routine and day to day life. Seems like we are always busy, but we have been getting some date nights! We have 2 different couples we have been trading date nights with...looking forward to this Sunday, our next date!!