16.5 months

Jack continues to amaze us all the time. He is pretty verbal, which we are getting a big kick out of. It's so cool to see all that he can do and all he has learned. He loves trying new things (not in the food department but in the activity one!) and he loves to learn.

Words he can say:

Mama, Da-da, Poppy (Pop), Nonny (na-na), banana (na-na), apple (ah-puh), purple (puh-pul), yellow (lell-oh), blue, red (weh), green (grrrr), please (peas), thank you (ank u), hi, bye-bye, Cherrios (chee-tos), gato, agua, ca-ca, poo-poo (and makes a stinky face and waves his hand in front of his face), night-night (nigh-n), no, oh no!, up, down, yay, balloon (boon), bubble (bah-boo), light (ight), out, ball, book, car (cah), cow, pig, hat, hot, cold, numbers 1 and 2 in English, 1-4 in Spanish (with varying degrees of clarity), Jo-Jo (his stuffed monkey), Bunky (other stuffed toy), toes, leg, baby, wow, on, cloud, I love you (I laaaa), egg, waffle (wah-woo), hug, go, moose, Dora, more (mo), mas (ma), plane (which sounds an awful lot like please but he pointed up to a plane and said it.), potato (Ta-to)


Cool Tricks:

--Knows his ABCs. We practice with flashcards and he LOVES it. He always wants to do them over and over and cries when we put them away. He knows them in and out of order but still struggles with C, F, J and S.

--he can catch a ball almost all the time. He's been doing this for a month or so and seems to be very coordinated

--if you hold up one finger he says "Wahn" and 2 fingers he says "two".

--can point to ear, nose, mouth, tummy, toes and leg but often prefers pointing to your nose, toes and leg. Ear, mouth and tummy he does on himself.

--We're getting better at colors but he usually calls everything yellow at first. With practice, he can usually get blue and green too but mostly everything is yellow at first.


--He is pretty good at puzzles


Likes/Favorites:

--books, books, books! Jack loves to flip through his own books and loves to be read to. We read every night and he is pointing out a lot of things in the books. He also has memorized certain things on certain pages. For example, in the book, Corneilius P. Mud, Are you Ready for Bed? he always says "No!" on the page with no and the following page has "Hmmm" which he also says.

--swimming and anything to do with water

--his stuffed monkey Jo-Jo

--Wonder Pets and Jeopardy (he claps whenever someone gets a Daily Double and gets so excited for Final Jeopardy)

--Running (he loves to run all the time and likes to jabber while he runs, which is pretty funny)

--ABC cards

--Anything with buttons to push. He is especially annoying if you are trying to work on the computer.

--hiding but he always picks the same places so he isn't that hard to find!

Dislikes:

--Anything that isn't his idea.

--Not much. He's really a happy kid who likes doing most things. We are beyond lucky!