18 months

I am like 9 days too late for this, but better late than never, right. Well Dylan turned a year and a half on November 10. We went to the doctor for his well visit and it went, well, well. hehehe. Okay seriously, he hadn't grown any in height since his 15 month visit, but his weight was up to a whopping 22lbs and 7 onces. I know, we have a little thin one on our hands, but at least he's tall right. I say he's my swimmer boy. We make them long and lean. We got one shot that day, his last Hep A, which makes it official, we are done with shots, woo hoo. Oh, wait, the following day, everyone in the family got the H1N1 shot, so now we are done with shots, woo hoo. At least until next year's seasonal flu shot and every year there after and when he's 5 years old and they make us get the chicken pox shot that I denied, but we are done, woo hoo. (side note on the H1N1 vaccination, I swore I would not get it for months, but after prayers and seeking counsel from all the doctors, including my woman doctor, we went with it. I figured I will do all that I can to protect and leave it up to God. Plus since we won't have insurance soon, I didn't want to risk it.)

In addition to his physical growth statistics, Dylan is right on track with his developmental. He can say Mommy (or mama), Dada, Nana, PawPaw, Stella, dog, duck, light, eat, eye, bye bye, bubbles, bath, balloon, ball, moon, oh no, uh oh, sky, one, two, yea, mine, baby, tree, and turbo. (those are the ones I can think of right now). Since he's been walking for 10 months now, this boy can get around. He climbs into chairs and then onto the dining room table. He motors his way around the playground, playing on the older kid's side. I have to watch him carefully as their are lots of openings. One week he fell through a spot at the top of the stairs and the pole, luckily I slowed him down on the drop by grabbing his shirt, so he barely hit the ground. He got right up and took off again. This boy has no fear.

He brings such joy to Damien and I, sometimes we just like watching him. The other night we were laying on the couch and he'd put his hand on my cheek, turn my face and kiss me. Those are the memories I want to keep forever.

This day, he was full of himself, he found Damien's glasses, and surprisingly put them on correctly without breaking them.
Then he went to the closet and got my hat out and put it on.