Mason is 18 months!

As I am typing this, Mason is 19 months and a few days, but it has been a crazy busy summer!

He is pretty much a big kid now and I am in denial.

I took him for his 18 month check up (no shots, yay!) he weighed 25 pounds. He is thinning out (well not sure where, he still looks round!) He is wearing mostly 24 month and 2T clothe and still in size 3 diapers.  We still have not gotten his hair cut because his curls are just too sweet---but it will be soon though, his hair is getting pretty unruly.

Mason is FINALLY walking! It was a few weeks after he turned 18 months old and he took off.  It took him a while to get it but he has it down now.  He is still wobbly, but for the most part he walks on his own and does not crawl.  We thought that kid would never walk! And he walked for the first time towards Logan and I and I bribed him with a waffle :)

We also took the pacifier away this month.  Wow, it was rough. He cried for a few days at night, but then it was like he never had it.

He is saying all kinds of words! Bataball (any kind of ball he sees, we think he is trying to say basketball), bubba, mommy, (he cries mommy for really anything he wants) dada, dodgey (tries to say doggy), eat, joosh (juice) up, down, nite nite, book, car, fish, bubbles, mine (his favorite).
He also will yell: STOP THAT! and GET DOWN! because we yell that to him on the daily.
We ask him what the cow says: MOOOOOO and he has to push his little head forward to really get the MOOOOO affect.

We will also ask him things like to go get his cup or put something in the trash and he knows what to do.  We also will ask him if he wants to do something and he will happily say YEAH and get very excited if it something like reading books, playing in the water or eating.  But we ask him if he needs to go to bed he will say NO!

He is pretty round but we are not sure how.  He really does not eat that much.  He likes: waffles, bananas, cheese, goldfish, macaroni and cheese (he might eat this for dinner most nights), watermelon, and some chicken.  I remember when Logan was that age, he ate tacos, spaghetti, not Mason, he is pretty picky.  We offer it to him and he just makes a face and pushes it away.

He loves bubbles, throwing balls, "playing" (pretty much wrestling) with brother, playing in the water, being outside, going for walks, reading books, his monkey, bath time, eating snacks, coloring (on the walls included!)

Mason Bruce, you prove to us more and more every day that you are going to be our wild child and we would not have it any other way!

We love you to the moon and back Buggie!