Josiah continues to be big--he's about 26 lbs and 30 inches. He's wearing 18 month clothes, although some of the pants are too long because of the proportions.
Josiah learned to roll from back to front right before Christmas! A combination of rolling, rotating, and scooting allows him to get around and endangers Elijah's beloved train tracks. He's progressed from flapping his arms and bouncing up and down on his bottom in hopes of making progress to a nice bottom scoot and reach, which allows him to make slow and steady progress across the room.
He started saying Mama right before Christmas (so sweet!). This week, he's been practicing saying bye-bye. For the last couple of weeks, he's been saying "dada" in the appropriate context (although infrequently).
Since nursing is so simple and feeding our toddler involves plenty of coaxing, I wasn't anxious to make life more complicated. However, the transition to solids is going great; he loves to eat! We've loosely taken a baby-led weaning approach, meaning he mostly feeds himself and we do very little spoon feeding. He eats anything we give him--rice, oatmeal, applesauce, banana, pears, sweet potato, squash, broccoli, beans, soup, eggs, avocado, blueberries. Babies are so much easier to feed than toddlers!
Josiah enjoys watching the world go by; Elijah is particularly fascinating to watch. He loves to snuggle and go out-and-about in the sling.
He greets people with a huge smile and flapping arms.
He takes 2-3 naps/day. He's my merry morning bird, ready to greet the day around 6:30am. He always goes to sleep with his beloved former swaddling blankets.
He just got his two top teeth in, bringing the collection up to four.
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