Alton 18 months

I had Alton in for his18 month well child check a couple of weeks ago. He actually was just turning 19 months when I took him in. Somehow along the line we got behind by a month and it has just stayed that way. I figure since he was a month premature, it means we're right on time, right?:) Well anywho, the big news is he is growing like a champ! He went from 11th percentile for height up to 21st percentile! Yay! He hovers around 50th for weight every time I take him in and that stayed the same. He still doesn't say much as far as words. He says 'mama' but not just for me. He calls me and John both mama. His other only consistent word is he calls Amber 'baa'. I've decided to go ahead and set up a speech evaluation for him through the Birth to 3 program. I made the phone call early last week and am in the process of working on the scheduling of it with our B to 3 coordinator. Alton may or may not qualify, but I just want to get some professional input either way because if he could use some therepy we should get started on it sooner than later. I've been taking tons of cute pictures of Alton to try to score some perfect ones to get ready for our next post placement report. He still LOVES tractors!

Look! I made a tractor train!

I can drive 2 at once!

Daddy dressed me in bibs today and I'm looking too stinkin cute!

Wait a minute, I see something over there that I haven't tried destoying yet!

If sissy can do it, then so can I!

Faster Ena! Faster!

I love my 4 wheeler almost as much as I love tractors:)

Pumpkin gutting:)

One of Athena's most favorite activities ever is gutting pumpkins. From the minute pumpkins are brought home all she can think about is when she gets to gut them and play with the guts. I would dare to say she looks forward to it as much as, if not more than Santa Clause coming, Easter Bunny coming and even her own birthday. We got some awesome pumpkins last weekend from our friends' very prolific pumpkin patch. (thanks guys!) Every night when I pick her up from daycare she asks if we could gut a pumpkin tonight. I've held her off all week because our weeknights are so short on time and we should wait until the weekend. Smart little thing asked me what day it was when I picked her up today and when I told her it was Friday, she knows Friday is a 'stay up late' night and therefor is part of the weekend! We got started with the cutting and gutting the minute we got home:)

We collect the seeds for roasting, though there were hardly any in this pumpkin for some reason. ps-don't you love her new haircut! It's all layered and stacked up the back and so cute on her. So easy to comb and go in the morning too. I love it!

This one's for you Katie:) We're working on our language and vocabulary development. Saying what the parts of the pumpkin are. Here she is showing off a piece of the pumpkin 'flesh'.
Realy getting into it with both hands.
She drew the face on with a marker, then I cut it out.
It was a little windy and cold when we went outside to light it so she ran back in to get her blankie to keep her warm while I snapped about a zillion pictures of her and her new pumpkin friend 'Eleanor'.
Good night Eleanor!