18 months already

Cody, aka, Coder, Code Man, CodyCode, is starting to talk up a storm. Hard to believe he's already at this stage. He's 18 months now, he's got 10 teeth, four in front on top and bottom and two top molars. He's starting to finally grow some hair. He's a dare devil, always busy and constantly shoving everything that will fit in his mouth. His most recent fun is flipping over his "Cody" chair and saying "weeee!" as he tries to go down it like a slide. He likes to make us laugh too!

Here is a list of his words so far (or at least as many as I can think of):


1. Yes
2. No
3. daddy
4. mommy
5. Addy
6. B
7. Calvin (cal – in)
8. Down (downie)
9. Thank you (ank oo)
10. baby (babe E)
11. Audrey
12. Amen
13. Night night
14. Bye Bye
15. Hello
16. Honk (onk)
17. Eye
18. Nose
19. Ear
20. Duck
21. Cup
22. Juice
23. Apple
24. Belly
25. Ball
26. Out
27. Chase
28. Owie
29. Bottle (ba ba)
30. Blanket (bunky)
31. Please (eee sss)
32. Puppy
33. Woof
34. Tickle Tickle
35. Ribbit
36. Spoon
37. Vacuum (vac cue)
38. Rasberry (ras bur e)
39. Banana (nana)
40. Knock knock
41. Balloon
42. Roar (says this when he sees a tiger or lion)
43. Pumpkin (pum in)

And He Sleeps

Saturday night, littlest C went to sleep in his crib for (basically) the first time in his 18 months of life. He cried for 15 minutes and then fell asleep. He woke up in the middle of the night. I didn't have a clock but I'm pretty sure he was up off and on for like 6 hours. It was a long dang time. I was tired. That night, Calvin asked if he could have his crib back. The answer: No.

Evening #2. He cried for 1 minute, 30 seconds. Woke up once in the middle of the night. I gave him a hug and put him back down, he went right back to sleep without crying.

Evening #3. No crying. Just sleep and peace.

I'm hoping the rest of our lives are like evening #3 but even if we have to do evening #2 some more, no problem at all. The boys are sharing a room because Calvin doesn't like to sleep in a room by himself. It makes me feel bad that he didn't sleep more with me when he was really little. But I let him crawl in with me if he wants to in the morning. I like it, he smells good, it works.

One more picture for today.

It's been a while since we've had any good pictures. I finally said to heck with it and bought a new camera. I haven't had time to play with it much and it was a really cheap little thing but he's a picture of Cody, being Cody. And Chillin. Most of the pictures I took ended up being blurry so I either need to figure out how to get these boys to hold still (Ha!), or how to work this camera better. I'll get there eventually.

Here are the after school pictures

Only one way to describe this boy: hot!

Oh, and thirsty!

And excited to have been at school and happy that mom came to pick him up.

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Calvin Started Preschool!!

Calvin started preschool on Tuesday! This was before we got to school, we stopped to say hello to dad at work.

He's going on Tuesday and Thursday. He's a little mixed feelings about it. He wants to go back but has been upset and crying in the mornings when I've left. He did get to feed the fish today when I left and he seemed pretty pleased about that when we talked tonight. On Tuesday, he did really well until it was nap time and then he cried for me. He said he was worried about when I was going to pick him up. So we went over the schedule in more detail so he knew better what to expect and it went better today, well, other than drop off. Hopefully next week he'll understand the routine better and be more confident and relaxed.

Father's day

Today was father's day. We just puttered around the house today and grilled tonight. Wade was really tired today so we were pretty low key. When I went to call my dad, I told Calvin that we were going to call grandpa and tell him happy father's day and Cal says "it's Grandpa's father day too?" And I explained that yes, it's father's day for all of the dad's and grandpas. I'm not sure that he really understood but it was pretty cute. Then when he talked to Grandpa Floyd and Grandma Gloria tonight, they told him they were sitting around a bon fire. He was very concerned and told Grandma to call the fire department to put out the fire. Too funny.

We are still doing no tv for the boys. It's going well, Cal hardly asks to watch anything anymore and doesn't really say much when I tell him no. Funny that it's a lot easier to never turn it on than it ever was to turn it off, if that makes sense.

update

We have decided to attempt to go without TV for the boys, we are on day 2. A big part of this decision is based on where I started to work this year: a Waldorf school. The philosophy there is that media for young children is not healthy. I've read many articles about tv contributing to ADHD and I have sitnessed for myself that my 3 year old is much better behaved when he doesn't watch tv. Wade and I also watched a show on Thursday night that talked about the development of human babies and it all tied in to how the Waldorf school views it. The timing of it was perfect for us. Cal may be able to go to the school I'm working at in the fall and in order for that to happen, we have to agree to be media free for the kids. I think we can do it!

We are all trying to get over being sick. Me and the boys have had a head cold for a couple weeks. Cal is about cured. Cody and I are still snotty and coughing but it's getting better. Wade is unscathed at still.

Wade starts a new job tomorrow! We're very grateful that something came along that seems like it's going to work out well. We'll see if we still think so after he starts :) He'll be working as a mechanic again and about a 4 minute drive from the house, right on the way to where our day care is. Which is SO nice, especially considering my commute is 45 minutes each way. Not very handy if there were to be an emergency.

Cal and I went to the nursery yesterday and bought some flowers to plant. We're going out now and we're going to make mud, I mean we're going to plant the flowers. Gotta go!