Declan at 26 Months

Dear Declan: 26 months

• You weigh 26.3 pounds

• You are wearing 18 and 24 month and 2t jeans (only for the length though, they are adjustable waist and are as tight as we can get them) 18 month shirts, size 4 diapers size 5 over night diapers and and size 6 shoes.

• Your favorite foods are: Banana, blue berries, apples, grapes, oranges, Chickfila chicken, ketchup, bread, Fettuccine Alfredo, yo baby yogurt, gold fish, Veggie straws, Cheerios, french fries, crackers, cookies, pizza, breakfast bars (you call them cookies) and anything that's on our plates.

• You sleep from 7:00-7:30pm-6:30am during the week and a  nap from 12:30-2:30 sometimes until 3; on the weekends we keep you up until 8 and you usually wake up right at 12-14 hours but will just play in your bed and let us sleep in for a little bit longer. 

• Christmas and New Years was this past month! You LOVED opening gifts. You passed out the gifts at Mimi and Poppi's and at Uncle Scott's house! You had so much fun playing with all your toys and now the living room looks like a toy store. We had dinner at our favorite restaurant for New Year's celebration and went and got ice cream at Cold Stone. You loved looking at the ice cream and watching the people make ours but you didn't like it and didn't want anything to do with it. You take after your dad on that because I love ice cream!  

• We took down the Christmas stuff, put up the baby gates and..... your high chair! I'm so excited to have it gone and put up! You are sitting in a booster seat and you really like it!  

Declan, you have been learning so much this past month! You haven't gotten into a lot of trouble this month (good thing!) You were so good during Christmas and New Year's! You loved getting to open gifts and by the end of the weekend you were really good at ripping the paper off the gifts. You did have to make sure that all the paper was off the gift before you would play with it.  We made cookies for Santa and you helped decorate them. We left them out for Santa and you were so upset Christmas morning when you found out Santa ate your cookies and you couldn't eat any! We took you to your first movie Christmas night! We saw Sing! You did great! You don't like popcorn but you loved the fruit snacks the kid pack came with and I brought some m&m's and you ate the entire bag! You sat in your seat for most of the movie and on my lap, Gigi's lap and then you sat on daddy's lap for the last 20 mins. 

{26 MONTHS}

{you wanted to get out of the tub to sit on the potty}

 {new years day}

 {happy new years}

{running some errands}

{hanging with cousins while the razorbacks were losing the game}

{no more highchair}

{finally able to play with your truck} 

{christmas dinner at ihop}

{christmas evening - first movie - SING!}

 {christmas eve - making cookies for santa}

{before - hair cut - after}

Happy 26 Month Birthday Baby Boy!

I'll love you forever

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

My baby you'll be.

xoxo

ac