18 months old!

Liam,
You are now a year and a half! I can hardly believe it! You will have your 18 month appointment tomorrow. I'm hoping that you're at least 22 pounds... we'll see!

You say so many words now. It's amazing. Your most recent one is "happy." I love to hear you say it. You are such a happy boy. I love to hear/see you sign/say "more." It's much better than listening to you whine when you want something. Of course, usually when you want more of something, it's something from MY plate. I swear, you eat half my breakfast every morning!

I recently bought you a little inflatable swimming pool. You have so much fun in it, in even just a couple inches of water. I also bought you a teeball set this weekend. You love it! It's so fun to watch you swing at the ball. You're really good at kicking a ball around. Maybe you'll play baseball AND soccer?!

You haven't woken up during the night in weeks, if not months. It's wonderful. Today you woke up at 5:10 though, which was much too early. You really need to sleep until at least 6. When you do, you're in a much better mood all day!

You're going through a phase right now. You just seem to want "Mama" all the time. I love it... but it's exhausting. You're unhappy when Daddy gets you in the morning. You cry when I leave the room. You cry when I leave you at daycare. I love you so much, and it's so hard for me to walk away from you when you're crying, but I have to do it each morning. Hopefully this phase will end soon...

I love you so much, my sweet boy.
Mommy