History of the J Man

Elliott turned 18 months yesterday and had his check up right on his half birthday.  He weighs 23.1 lbs and is 32.5″ tall.  That weight only puts him in the 20% for weight.  I’m not sure Jonah ever ranked that low.  Elliott seems to be skinnier than Jonah but that’s fine.  I attribute it to the fact that he’s not a big milk drinker like Jonah was.  Elliott a happy, healthy kid.He’s climbing all over the place, trying to do whatever Jonah does and talking more each day.  He was even saying, “no, no, no” as he fell asleep yesterday.  Plus he’s starting to string 2 words together.  His favorite phrases now are, “Let’s go!” and “And me!”

Below are some photos from our time at the new doctor’s office for his check up.  They make you strip down the kid to check his height and weight then have you wait in the waiting room.  So rather than get him dressed just to get him undressed again when the doc came in, I let him wear my sweatshirt.

Daddy & Elliott outside

A fun photo of the family taken before trick-or-treating

Elliott has decided that he likes to dip. This is a photo of him eating his yogurt with a tortilla chip, he doesn’t eat the chip just uses it to dip.

We did Halloween last night in 2 stages.  Jonah is at a stage where he doesn’t want to do anything so when we were ready to go trick-or-treating he didn’t want to go.  I think he was having too much fun passing out candy to the kids who came to the door.

The last thing I was going to do was force him to go get candy so we said fine and took Elliott out.  Elliott walked around holding on tightly to my hand on one side and holding a piece of candy firmly in the other hand.  When we got up to a new door he’d put the piece of candy from his hand into his bag then reach for a new one which he would hold until the next place.  He was reassured that he could keep it as long as it was in his hand.  I’m not sure if Jonah knew really what candy was when we took him out at this age.  Elliott certainly knows already about candy.  Fortunately I was able to swap out some all-natural fruit snacks for him after dinner, instead of candy.  Not any better for his teeth I’m sure but at least they had a full serving of fruit.

Then once we got in from trick-or-treating with Elliott and showed off all his candy guess who decided he was ready to go?  So out we all went again, this time with Jonah AND Elliott.

We should make Elliott walk a couple times around the block each night before bed.  The kid actually slept this morning until 6:00!  He usually wakes up around 5:00am.