Todd the Toddler’s 20th Month

19.5 months old – April 1, 2016

TWENTIETH MONTH
MARCH 21 – APRIL 21 (2016)

OUTDOOR FUN

• outdoor roaming
• stroller walks
• hot tub swims
• petting the neighbor’s dog
• getting things out of the garage to play with (i.e. skateboards, ski poles)
• waving at cars
• sitting on “his” (serpentinite) rock

March 29, 2016

Sitting on Serpentinite – April 14, 2016

COMMUNICATION & LEARNING

• started doing “thumbs up” with both hands (3/25)
• he repeated “magic carpet” (3/27)
• he repeated “eye” to command (4/1)
• he likes to do “body part identification & review” by pointing to different parts on himself or us while I name the thing (i.e. nose, eye, ear, hair, etc)
• correctly pointed to ears when I asked, “Where is Pillow Bear’s ear?” and “Where is Todd’s ear?” (3/30)
• said ski “sgee” constantly (5/5)
• likes to make loud sounds
• likes to make sounds in cardboard tubes/vacuum cleaner tube
• I told him to count with his fingers and he seemed to imitate by holding up thumb & 1st finger (4/12)
• this was the first month he really started waving
• he tries to open the oven door even though he knows he’s not supposed to

Thumbs up! – March 25, 2016

SKI WEEKENDS IN WENATCHEE

• Mission Ridge (3/26)
• Stevens Pass magic carpet (3/27)
• Mission Ridge (4/2 – 4/3)
• Mission Ridge (4/9 – 4/10)
• playing outside on the condo deck
• Todd loved playing on the grass with our condo neighbors (4/9)
• nap on both Eric & me before driving home (4/10)
• we stopped at a park in Cashmere and he loved interacting with the other kids, he started to kiss one little girl and was super smiley & happy (4/15)
• Mission Ridge (4/16) – our last day skiing of the season

Eric & Todd on the Mission Ridge rope tow – March 26, 2016

Stevens Pass Ski Area – March 27, 2016

Mission Ridge ski area – April 2, 2016

SILLY BOY

• when Eric picks him up he “jogs” his legs in the air
• he scrunches up his eyes & mouth to make silly expressions
• he loves looking at himself in window reflections

Dada’s skis – March 22, 2016

GROSS MOTOR

• he does multiple solid jumps in a row without stopping (~10x)
• jumping off the couch & landing on his feet on the floor
• “skiing” up & over the upside-down balance board (4/1)
• crawling under coffee table without hitting his head
• able to sit on a regular park swing by himself while being gently pushed
• climbing up park slides & going down by himself (close supervision)
• able to walk up stairs without holding on

Cashmere, WA – April 15, 2016

PLAY

• skateboarding in the house
• driving his Little Tikes car over the upside-down balance board (4/1)
• likes the “Twinkle twinkle” song on the “lap pup,” plays it repeatedly & dances as he sits
• stacking cans 3 levels high & knocking them over
• likes to “dive” over the handlebars of his Little Tikes car
• new Razor Scuttlebug bike (4/19)
• watching our ski videos on YouTube

BABYSITTER DAYS

• I worked 12 full or half days.  He loves when his babysitter, Jeri, comes to play with him!  They go outside daily to explore…

Babysitter pic – March 30, 2016

Babysitter pic – March 31, 2016

Babysitter pic – March 31, 2016

Babysitter pic – April 13, 2016

Babysitter pic – April 20, 2016

FAMILY VISIT

• visit from Darren & Sandie (4/18)
• this was the first time Todd met his Uncle Darren (Eric’s brother)
• Todd took a little while to warm up, but then snuggled with Darren a lot & gave out kisses 🙂

Todd with Darren & Sandie – April 18, 2016

TEETH

• bottom right lateral incisor poking through (4/6)
• that’s his 11th tooth
• Dentist check-up (4/8)

HEALTH

• start of (yet another!) cold (4/10)
• this was the worst one yet because he really “acted” sick (for the first time)
• 4/11– he spent a lot of time in my chair in the morning (and fell asleep there), and he took naps on couch & Aerobed instead of his crib
• 4/12– he napped twice on the Aerobed, in addition to a 1 hr crib nap
• 4/13– he napped once on the Aerobed, in addition to a 1.5 hr crib nap

Sick Todd – April 11, 2016

Sick Todd – April 11, 2016

FOOD

• now he can handle eating a banana “whole” instead of needing it cut up
• Cafe Rio (4/1)
• eating ketchup plain (4/8)
• Carlos 1800 (4/8)
• Carlos 1800 (4/15)

DAY TIME NAPS

• crib naps were generally 2-3+ hours
• longest nap = 3.75 hours (4/15)
• shortest nap = 1.0 hour (more than once)
• when he was sick he had informal naps on Aerobed (as described above)

Car nap – March 26, 2016

NIGHT TIME SLEEP

• he woke up crying in the night 13x this month
• this was Todd’s worst sleep month since he was ~9 months old (thanks to teething & being sick…ugh!)
• he followed my instruction “hold my hand” when I’d put him back to bed after night-time wake ups. (I held his hand through the crib rails while he fell back asleep.) (3/31) (4/5)
• he fell asleep on Eric on the couch before bed (4/4)
• starting 4/20 I stopped letting Todd look at books when he woke up in the night because it was getting more difficult to get him back to sleep quickly

Eric & Todd – April 4, 2016

POTTY TALK

• 39 poops were done in the toilet
• only 5 poops were not done in the toilet (3x he pooped more in the toilet once I got him there)…yay!
• 1x it was obvious he had to go poo but he refused to sit still, then went in pants

Dada mitts! (Babysitter pic) – April 19, 2016

See you next month!