Ryan's a full on walker, 18 mo checkup

Lily has started to love reading books to Ryan. Sometimes he doesn’t always love it because he wants to hold the book or wants Jeff or me to read, but she wanted to include him tonight when she read her princess books so that was nice. She likes reading “We’re going on a bear hunt” to him and she knows that book pretty well, so it’s very sweet to see.

Ryan loves being more independent. This morning he sat at the big table (we have put his booster seat away since he doesn’t ever want to sit in it) and was thrilled eating his cereal out of a bowl. I had to help him put it on the spoon sometimes, but he did a great job.

Last night Lily had hurt Ryan so she went into timeout. Later I found Rapunzel on the rocking chair and was told not to move her because she was mean to her sister and in time out.

Lily loves doing her preschool book and it’s so fun to do with her. I was very impressed at how she traced the letters and for the most part she can do everything in the book so far. She loves her letters and loves learning and doing learning activities. She is also becoming more independent and insists on getting dressed by herself every morning. She mostly did before, but I had to put her shirt on over her head, but now she does it by herself. Yesterday I told her how proud I was of her but today she told me not to tell her how proud I was of her.

The kids went to the doctor yesterday and Ryan had his 18-month check up. He is 27 pounds 2oz (84%) and 33 inches tall (68%) and head was 19 inches (73%). It was great that Jeff could come with me to the appointment and the kids were thrilled to see him walk in. Ryan couldn’t get to him fast enough, he sure loves his daddy. Ryan did so well at the doctor and just sat very mellow on Jeff’s lap while the doctor checked everything out. He’s doing great and we don’t really have any concerns so it was a good visit. I’m SO grateful Ryan is now walking since that was such a concern of ours before.

Ryan pretty much walks everywhere he goes now and hardly crawls. It’s great that he is seeing how much more convenient walking is to crawling. It’s so funny to see his little body unsteadily walking about, but we are so proud of him and his progress.

I feel like we have done pretty good for being at home all week due to sickness. The weather has been frigid (in the negative temperatures and sometimes double digit negative temperatures) but we made it through and I think the kids are getting better. They slept really well last night which was a blessing since we were so tired, but Jeff fixed the heater so we were all warm (as opposed to the house being at 64 degrees the night before), which I was so grateful for. I always get worried about Ryan being too cold since his bedroom isn’t insulated really well.