15 Months

Weight: 24 lbs. (50th percentile)

Height: 32.5 inches (90th percentile)

Head: 19 inches (90th percentile)

Today we had our 15-month well-check with the pediatrician, and we heard both great news (you are developing perfectly with weight/height, language, motor skills, social skills, etc) and some scary news (you need surgery to repair a hydrocoele). Let's address the bad stuff first...without being too graphic, apparently one of your very important man parts (ahem, starts with "t" and rhymes with schmesticle) is full of fluid due to a leak in your abdomen which could cause a hernia and land us in the ER, so we are hopefully going to get this taken care of surgically before this happens. Buddy, you just can't catch a break! This will be your second surgery...and we hear you might need a third if you are really sick this winter again because one of your tubes is on its way out of your ear. Lovely. Enough bad stuff, let's talk about all the WONDERFUL things you are doing right now!

Over the summer, you cut yourself down to one GLORIOUSLY LONG nap each day from about 11:30/12 to 2ish. YOU are happier, MAMA is happier, and LIFE IS GOOD. :) You are still super picky when you eat - if you could live on fruit, yogurt, and lil' crunchies alone, you'd be happy as a clam. Getting you to eat any sort of meat or bread is a huge challenge; I have to be super sneaky to get any protein in you! You also don't really care for your milk anymore...we weaned you from bottles about a month ago, and ever since, you really prefer juice or water. The past few weeks, you've really decided you want to eat using utensils, so meal time lately has been a disaster interesting...

You are just a GOOFBALL lately and love to do anything you can to get us to laugh. You love to play with balls, water, push toys, bubbles, and anything you're not supposed to have. You love to play with cups, ice, and straws and sneak sips out of our drinks all the time. (This morning, you tasted Diet Cherry Limeade...oops.) Your other favorite game is Peekaboo...see below. 

You are understanding almost everything we say to you and are starting to grow your vocabulary...it's slow (you are a boy after all!), but the pediatrician says you're right on track. Your current words are: mama, dada, ball (bah), bubble (bubb), diaper (dye-pah), more (mah), and all done (ah-dah). You are GREAT at sign language and we make you say "please" by patting your chest before we give you something you want. This has majorly cut down on your screaming...my ears thank you!

The "terrible two's" seem to have started early in this house...boy, can you throw a fit! When the fruit snacks run out or I won't let you play with a sharp cooking knife or won't let you touch the candle, you get MAD. Red-faced, screaming, lip stuck out, major tantrum mad.  I actually find it funny sometimes and laugh at you...you don't seem amused by it though. One day you'll see the humor in it...but for now, we let you have your fit and then move on to something else. :) 

Well, I guess that about sums up your 15-month mark! You are crazy, stubborn, demanding, hilarious, sweet, loving, and crazy little one...but we LOVE you more than words can say, Cartman!