Grayson ~ 16 Months

~ 16 Months ~

 

Another month has gone by and our little guy is 16 months old!  He is a lot more vocal now and tries to communicate with us all the time, although most of the time his is talking his own language.  He will repeat almost every word and now says the new following words: cookie, cracker, chocolate, pickles, Juju, no, no, no (while shaking his finger), ca-ca (oranges in Grayson's language), eggs,     .  He can now open doors and loves to get in our pantry.  The lock broke on the pantry so it is a challenge as he loves to take everything out of it and snack all the time.  We are getting this fixed ASAP as it drives us crazy.  He would snack all day if we let him.  

Grayson on most nights fights going to sleep.  I guess he knows what he is missing now and does not want to miss a beat.  He stalls and wants to read more books.  We started reading together with Daddy, Mommy and Grayson on his big stuffed elephant.  We used to take turns putting him to bed, but thought it was more fun to all read together and he loves it.  Most of the time he says bye bye when we put him in his crib and will keep saying this as we walk downstairs.  It's his way of saying night night and it's so darn cute.  He will say it about 5 times until we can barely hear him.  

Our sweet little Grayson has now started screaming when he gets frustrated.  He loves throwing things over the gate and sometimes he will try to throw the pantry keys and they stick to the metal gate so he gets so mad and screams.  I keep telling him to use his words, but he doesn't understand that yet.  He has also started throwing fits.  The other day he wanted to play with the over the door hanger for the wreath and I wouldn't let him play with it so he threw a major fit and was almost hyperventilating.  He did it again when Daddy wouldn't let him take the swifter in the car.  

He got a new pretend kitchen for Christmas and loves to play with it.  He will pour us a cup of coffee or tea when we ask for it and even pretends to drink with us.  He will also serve us a hotdog or hamburger on a plate.  He likes his new grocery cart and pretend cans of food that he got for Christmas as well.  

He is very opinionated about what book we read him now.  He will say no until he finds the right one and then gets really excited.  He loves any pop up book especially the ones by Karen Katz.  His new favorites are Good Night Chicago, Daddy and Me, Chicago Baby, Llama Llama books (from Oma) and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star that Oma recorded.

Our little mischievous boy stands on his train and jumps over the side of the couch.  I caught this on video and crack up every time I see it.  He also props himself up on the ottoman and gets up on the couch and also does this on his rocking glider and ottoman.  He likes to stand on the ottoman and dance to Sesame Street songs.  Any time he hears music he starts dancing and our little boy has some moves.  

Grayson is obsessed with airplanes so we took him to the airport just off the runway and watched as several planes came in.  I have to admit it was a really cool experience.  We took lots of pictures and videos so he can always remember this cool moment.  We have actually already taken him two times and I'm sure we will be going back again soon.  Grayson absolutely loved it!

Oma and I took Grayson to a pottery making place and made an ornament for our tree.  He was a little too young and was more interested in the dust pan and brush.  It was a challenge because he wanted to run around the store and when he was painting he wanted to do it all by himself.  It turned out great, but we were hoping to do several so Oma could have one too, but maybe next year.  

Our poor little boy had a bad experience with the bath tub and wouldn't take baths for a week.  Craig and I left for less than 24 hours to meet with Craig's clients in MI so Oma and Julia watched him.  His bath went okay with them, but for some reason he would not take a bath for a week.  A couple nights we tried and he screamed bloody murder so we had to skip it and then we started doing showers instead.  A little over a week later he finally was okay with baths again.  It was such a strange thing, but I'm just glad he is back to normal.