At 18 months Friday, Franklin is hitting my absolute favorite age of the youngest years. He's still a snuggly little baby, but now he's all full of expression and personality, imagination and motivations. He shakes his head and nods dramatically to indicate agreement. He knows the words "no" and "mine" and likes to say "go go go" and recently learned to say "car" and "rock". He has quite the sweet-tooth and will stand under the cupboards, pointing up, pleading "cookie, cookie!" He is stubborn and strong willed, as we knew he would be, but I notice that he's learning already, part of having a big brother. Theo tells him, "we don't always get what we want Franklin, that's just how life is."
He can climb up on the couch now, and likes to make up little games for himself like throwing things over the side of the couch, climbing down to go get them, then climbing back up, repeat. He makes dinosaur noises, vrooming car noises, and makes believe he's eating or feeding others. I found him making towers out of canned food the other day. He likes to drawn whenever afforded the chance but still likes to put the markers in his mouth, so he doesn't get the chance as often as he would like. He still loves balls more than just about anything, but trains are now in a close second. He has favorite books he insists I read over and over, and tells me he wants to read his train book by bringing it to me saying "choo choo!" He is flirty and social and so interested in others' reactions. He loves to point to parts of the face, especially the eyes. He walks so well now, we took our first family walk with the dog through the neighborhood and he walked a half of a mile on his own! And with him he brought the utter joy of a child discovering his own abilities. We all felt the lift of his joy of the moment.
He can climb up on the couch now, and likes to make up little games for himself like throwing things over the side of the couch, climbing down to go get them, then climbing back up, repeat. He makes dinosaur noises, vrooming car noises, and makes believe he's eating or feeding others. I found him making towers out of canned food the other day. He likes to drawn whenever afforded the chance but still likes to put the markers in his mouth, so he doesn't get the chance as often as he would like. He still loves balls more than just about anything, but trains are now in a close second. He has favorite books he insists I read over and over, and tells me he wants to read his train book by bringing it to me saying "choo choo!" He is flirty and social and so interested in others' reactions. He loves to point to parts of the face, especially the eyes. He walks so well now, we took our first family walk with the dog through the neighborhood and he walked a half of a mile on his own! And with him he brought the utter joy of a child discovering his own abilities. We all felt the lift of his joy of the moment.
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| Ball! (Having just thrown one). |
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| Two waters is better than one |
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