15 months!

Evan had his 15 month checkup this morning. He is up to 25 lbs (he weighed in at 25lbs 2oz while holding lovey... couldn't rip it away from him and the nurse felt bad, so she knocked off 2oz for lovey). And he's 33 1/2 inches tall. He's up to the 58th percentile from the 50th for weight, and up to the 97th percentile from the 90th for height. Tall and skinny kid! Well, he does have a little bit of a belly, but oh so cute! He's been healthy aside from a few sniffles around the holidays and I'm so grateful for that!

He's got a few words that he'll actually share with you when he's not being stubborn. His first was "ball" (or "bah") and he'll use that one a lot. He has said "bath", "tada", "that", "juice", and still says mama and dada but not in reference to Jack or myself. He'll go around the room and point at things and ask "dat?" and we'll tell him what he's pointing to.

He loooves to hide now, in little nooks or forts. His favorite is behind the movie cabinet in the family room. He also hides behind the glider in his room and under the kitchen island behind the stools.



He still loves all balls and anything ball shaped (like clementines and balloons). He loves playing Xbox with Daddy. He even has a preference for the player 1 controller. How does he know? He gets super excited when you're at the top of the stairs and will point downstairs because he knows the Xbox is down there. When you ask him "Do you want to go downstairs?" he'll get all giddy and squeal and bounce up and down in your arms. And the first thing he does when he gets down there is grab the controllers and try to climb up on the couch.



He loves shoes. He tries to put them on himself. He loves to stomp around in them. He loves building blocks now. We got him megablocks for Christmas and he's getting better and better at building towers. We got his bumbo seat back out and he loves climbing in and out of it himself. He loves books. His favorite right now is a 60 page Cars book (Pixar). There is a paragraph on every page and takes about 30 minutes to read through the whole thing but he sits there for all of it! Since he's not much of a snuggler at all anymore, I'll usually read the whole thing to him every night just to get my snuggles.

He's starting to eat more of the food we eat, thank God! He loves stuffed peppers - both the peppers and the filling! He had more than a few bites (which was more than I expected) of our Chicken Divan casserole from the other night. He joins in pizza night with us. We pull up his highchair next to the couch. Some other favorites are chicken tenders, quesadillas, meatballs, PB&J, and fish. Yes, fish! Lemony flaky fish. Oh I love it too, just never expected him to! He still loves yogurt, all fruits, grape tomatoes, whole grain waffles and goldfish. He'll sometimes have peas, and I made spinach pesto pasta which he loves, but other than that we're striking out on vegetables! Hopefully he'll like them more when he gets more teeth and can have them raw.

Well, that's about all that's new with the Bub/the Erv/the Evster/E-man/Skittles... all nicknames we use regularly.