Wildflower in the Sun: 20 months

wrote on the 13th but somehow never posted it:(

I am not sure what has me posting Cap's last 3 month updates, but there just seems to be stuff I want to remember about these days. I think the biggest part of his growing this month has been his speech and language. I started "officially" homeschooling Cap a month ago. For now we have just started with reading, but that whole subject is for a post of its own. His vocabulary grew abundantly over just the first weekend of starting our reading. A lot of his words that he was already saying, he was really only saying them partially. Examples: Papa was Pa, Grammi was Mi, Nonna was Na, and so on.

He also started using two words at a time such as "goat cheese or pine needle". Now he is using two words all the time and sometimes more though very broken of course. Example: Pizza. Please. Papa's. House. It is pretty cute. Here are some other things to note about the month.

- loves to read books, but doesn't like to look at books by himself
- started to be very interested in puzzles. we only have two, but he like them a lot.
- will lay his head back in water on his own which is huge. since we started putting him in water at 2 months he has resisted and fought on having to lay back to get his head wet.
- funny/ frustrating eater. one day loves spaghetti, then next day won't touch it.
- loves to rock climb, which isn't necessarily what you might think rock climbing might be:) but on occasion it is
- still loves balls and now is learning what all the names are to the different balls. his favorite right now seems to be basketball.
- starting to have more dry naps, but hasn't been good about telling us he needs to go potty, we just have been taking him
- goes pee less times a day than i do i think. he will hold it for 2-3 hours. we have entered a new stage of not wanting to stop what we are doing to go pee.
- doesn't want to go in public restrooms anymore:( we pee outside a lot!
- knows his colors, purple, blue, green, black, brown, yellow, orange, pink, and white
- getting the idea of numbers and counting, but just the "idea" of it
- still wants to help with whatever it is we are doing. cooking, sewing, shaving, putting deodorant on, etc.
- says "get you" when he wants you to chase him which is because we say i'm going to get you:)
- says "help me" when he want to help you
- same size but we don't have to roll all his pants up anymore
- still sleeps 7-7 with sometimes sleeping in a little longer and takes a 1.5 to 3 hour nap in the afternoon.
- we had a couple of weeks where he wasn't taking a nap about every other day. i was kind of starting to freak out, but we are over that phase thank goodness! that was rough!
- really into mandarins right now. will eat 2-3 in a row
- said thank you with words!!!! he always signs it, but he finally said it!

I think that about sums it up. There is always so much more, but you can't document everything!