Edited to add: I guess the last month got away from me as well - he's now 20 months old!
I feel like 6 months ago might as well be 3 years ago - I think Sawyer has changed so much from 12 to 18 (19) months. He is like a real little boy now - not a baby any longer! So...
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What is SHH up to at 19 months?
Eating: Sawyer continues to be a pretty good eater, and not very picky. Starting at his new school at the end of August, I had to start making his lunch 3 days a week (his school in Austin provided all meals). This was scary to me at first, but I have my good go-to lunches that I know he'll eat. I typically make chicken nuggets, baked chicken, meatballs, a hot dog, or just some turkey slices, with some fruit (mandarin oranges, pears, peaches or mixed fruit), a string cheese, and some veggies (green beans, corn and peas, or any other frozen mix I happen to buy). They say he's a good eater at school so I guess I'm packing okay lunches! He eats very similar meals for each dinner, and we're still fixing him different meals than meals for Jeremy and myself just because we eat at different times. Breakfast is trickier - he's not a huge breakfast eater. We used to feed him waffles, which he loved, but again, he was getting a different breakfast at school each morning. At his school now, you have to pack breakfast and you have to have him at school by 7:30am to eat there, so Jeremy just feeds him at home each morning. It's not easy to find something quick for Jeremy to make, not messy and something Sawyer will eat 3-5 days a week. We still try waffles, cereal bars, oatmeal, oatmeal bars, and turkey sausage. If one of us has time to sit with him (and keep him from being too messy) he has yogurt. I sort of think he'd be just as happy eating a hot dog and green beans for breakfast! He has a morning and an afternoon snack at school, but we don't give him too many snacks on the weekends anymore, at least not at set times. If we're out of the house running errands I make sure to have nilla wafers, goldfish or fruit snacks on hand and he's happy. His favorite foods these days are: cherry or grape tomatoes, grapes, peaches, cherries, peach yogurt, hot dogs, meatballs, string cheese, green beans, goldfish, nilla wafers, animal crackers and fruit snacks. He is a good milk drinker, likes water from our cups, and loves apple juice as a treat!
Schedule: Sawyer wakes up between 7:45 and 8am most days, and goes to school from 8:15 to 5:45 3 days a week. His other 2 days he spends with Lolly and Mimi. He eats breakfast at home, usually a mid-morning snack, lunch around 11:30 and then naps from 12:30-2:30 {not at our house on the weekends though! I can't get a 2-hour nap to save my life those days!}. He has an afternoon snack, comes home to our house around 6pm, then we do dinner, bath and play before bed around 7:45pm. At school and at his grandmas' homes he does various art activities, reads books, and plays outside. When the weather is nice and we're not being attacked by mosquitoes we go on short walks around the block every evening around 6pm.
Diapers: I moved him up to a size 5 recently. Size 4 can work well but seemed a little small for nighttime wear. I also just started ordering from Diapers.com. It seems cheaper... can anyone vouch for this?
Clothes: Sawyer can actually still wear most 12-18 month toddler sizes from Baby Gap we got for him this spring/summer, so I have continued to buy that size for warmer clothes. With Carter's I think he's in a bigger size, 18-24 months and maybe even 2T in some clothes and definitely in pj's. We just got new shoes and he was a 5 wide - I think his feet are kind of on the smaller side! It is insane how quickly he grows out of shoes!
New tricks: I'm not sure this category applies anymore - he is into everything and doing everything! Climbing, running, talking, singing, copping an attitude... what isn't new these days?
Sickness: He had a cold earlier this month, which he got over quickly with an antibiotic, and as always never lost sleep over. We have seen several doctors over the last month or so about his ears - he got an ear/eye infection in July, was on 4 different antibiotics over a month, and still we could never get rid of the fluid in his ears. His ears are no longer infected, but the fluid remains, so he is getting ear tubes next week! I hate that it has to happen, but it's what his little ears need right now, especially going into cold and flu season. I really like our pediatric ENT, and as he put it - if his ears were that bad in July, you can count on them being 3 times worse during the winter. So tubes it is!
Loves: Cars, motorcycles, buses, trucks, trains - anything with wheels. Outside. Going on walks, but walking on his own and always refusing to hold our hands. Animals, especially dogs. Reading - favorite books are Pat the Bunny, Race Cars, Goodnight Moon, Baby Bible, When the World Goes to Bed and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Brushing his teeth (probably the bubblegum flavored toothpaste more). Watching cartoons or movies - favorites are Cars, Toy Story, Yo Gabba Gabba, the Wonder Pets, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Sponegbob Squarepants and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Taking medicine (seriously, I have never ever had to force him to take any medicine - he loves it).
Dislikes: Holding hands on walks. Diaper changes. Washing his hair. Not getting his way (shocking, I know).
Words: He says basically anything, but some of my favorites right now are:
Water - Whhhaaaaaaater (he says it with this really weird, throaty accent!)
Apple juice - doooosh
Tomatoes - matoes
Grapes - matoes? (apparently he can't distinguish the two)
Outside - ousside? (always questioningly)
Train - tren, choo choo
Mama - Mama!
Dada - Didda!
Uncle Josh - Uncle Dosh (he says uncle so clearly, it's crazy)
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