22 Months

This last month has required a little more patience than some previous months. I'm not really sure what has been going on. Either Carver is grumpy, or I am, or we just aren't quite in a smooth rhythm right now-- regardless, he has been driving me a little crazy these last weeks and I'm pretty sure I've been annoying him too.

Just over the last few days Carver has...

*been waking up before 7:00 a.m. almost every day (he usually sleeps until 8-ish)

* broken a Lenox vase and a ceramic pumpkin (two different days) while doing things he should not be doing.

* dunked his pacifier in the toilet--twice

* learned to open the oven

* learned to open the sliding glass door onto our back deck-- and managed to escape and get halfway down the not-very-sturdy steps before I caught him.

* skipped two naps (as in NO nap at all that day-- nightmare)

* peed on the floor in the 30 seconds or less it took him to walk from his bedroom to the bathtub

* screamed through Ingles, Walmart, and CVS (on different days)

So, it has been an eventful month. Hoping that month 23 goes much more smoothly. Of course, we've had a lot of good things happening too. Carver is starting to talk a little more. He has a newly found obsession with Legos and a continued obsession with all balls (any round object is a ball). He could still spend hours outside if I was willing and he adores animals. He has improved some on feeding himself (with utensils), and is getting better at not stuffing multiple bites in his mouth at once. He gets more independent every day but is still very affectionate, almost clingy, in a lot of ways.

Here are some of our month 22 happenings...

Visit with Uncle Lyle

Playing outside with Daddy

Visiting Daddy at work

Trying to retrieve the pacifiers that are (in a perfect world) resigned to the crib

Eating fruit all by himself

Fascinated by the pumpkins in the flower bed

Watching a movie with Papa