Weight: 24.3 pounds (52nd percentile)
Toddlers are soooooo much fun. And a lot of work. Exhausting, playful, whiny, silly, defiant, loving...these are all words i would use to describe Ryan on any given day. His absolute favorite thing has to be "outside". I must have heard that word at least a hundred times today. So out we went. Peanut went shrieking (NOT streaking, but he would have loved that too) down the driveway and jumped in a pile of leaves, he was so excited! He walked to Jenn's house all by himself, with only a slight detour here and there to play with Christmas decorations. We also took him on a ride in his car and he pointed out birds and bats and cars and dogs. Interestingly enough he totally ignores all the Christmas lights, apparently birds and bats are much more interesting.
Toddlers are also messy, and this story is not for the faint of heart. The other night i had just put Ryan in the bath when....he pooped in the tub. I called for Jake to come clean it up while i wrangled a wet, naked Monkey. Jake got the tub drained and cleaned and i started filling it back up, but in the meantime Jake had tried to flush the paper towels down the toilet...and it overflowed. So while Ryan was on his second bath Jake cleaned up and disinfected the whole bathroom. That's when Ryan pooped in the tub AGAIN. I quickly pulled him out and set him on the bathmat and started draining the tub, and when i turned around he had pooped in the FLOOR! I finally got the tub cleaned out, and the third bath lasted about 5 minutes and i slapped a diaper on that butt before his feet even touched the floor. You would think this is the absolute worst poop story i could have, but it definitely is not. :P
Ryan's vocabulary is beginning to grow, and mostly by mimicking so be careful what you say. The first mimic word we heard was "Kroger", but we only heard it for one day. He now mimics "Yay!" while throwing his hands up in the air, "Uh-oh" (and we hear that one a LOT), and several others but i can't think of them right now. He has made two 'sentences': "Dada outside" and "Mama bye-bye". He says "mama bye-bye" when i leave for work and he watches out the window as i drive out of sight. Well yesterday the UPS truck visited our house and he watched it drive away. After it was completely out of sight he said "Mama bye-bye!" Peanut also loves to play chase and peek-a-boo. Running down the hall shrieking with laughter is now a common occurrence :)
The best part of having a 14 month old is that his minion training is coming along nicely. He responds to requests (Give me a kiss, pick up the book, bonk Dada on the head) and is about halfway between destructive and helpful. I think he has a touch of OCD like his Mama because he has to make sure all doors are closed, but that really comes in helpful when i need the fridge door closed since i forget to do it myself. He will stack blocks to build a tower but a second later knock it down and leave blocks scattered across the floor. He's learning to throw and kick a ball, can walk backwards, and is showing a preference of using his left hand to color (although the books say final hand preference will not appear until after the age of 2). The little monkey can climb all over the place and i'm pretty sure he's part superhero because he has some crazy superhuman strength. At the very least he could beat me at arm wrestling.
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