Aidan words

Aidan had decided that he'd finally like to start talking. In the past few weeks he's added many new words to his vocabulary.

Some of his new words are: kitty, doggy, fishy, bye-bye, more, car, shoes, down, choo-choo, hot, and juice. A lot of times he will repeat a word I say, but it doesn't become a regular part of his vocabulary.

He understands just about everything we say. Just the other day, we were getting ready to go to the park and I asked him to go get a shirt and some shorts out of his drawer in his room. Ben and I were finishing our dinner at the table, and Aidan took off toward his room. He came running back a minute later with a shirt! I put the shirt on him, then told him to go get some pants. He ran back to his room and came back with another shirt. I explained to him that he already had a shirt on and needed some shorts, then pointed to my shorts and to Ben's shorts to show him exactly what he needed to get. He then ran back to his room a third time and came back with shorts. I was so proud of him!

We got Aidan a bunch of new Hot Wheels cars a couple of weeks ago, and they are his absolute favorite things. He has to take them everywhere we go, one in each hand. Ben's mom also got Aidan a bunch of trains and train tracks, and he loves playing with those too. That kid loves anything that has wheels on it.

Aidan knows where his eyes, nose, mouth, ears, head, arms, legs, hands, fingers, feet, toes, and belly are. He can also point out all these features on his stuffed animals. And about 80% of the time he when he plays with his plastic shapes bucket, he can put the right shape into the right hole. We feel like he's so smart!

We took Aidan to his 18 month doctors appointment on Thursday and found out that he is a tall, skinny boy. At his 15 month checkup, he was around 60-75% for both height and weight, based on his age. At this last checkup, he was 95% for height and 10% for weight! He will fit right in with this family.

When we go to the park now, Aidan wants to climb up everything. He can climb up a couple rungs on a ladder, can go up and down the stairs like a pro, and tries to climb on all the other little structures. He's pretty good at it too, though it makes me nervous everytime. He falls down a lot, but is a tough little guy and gets right back up to try again.

He is growing up too fast. If only we could keep him at this age forever...