Gus at 19 Months

In his 19th month, Gus moved into his fifth place of residence (or seventh if you count both of the hospitals). He seems to love having a backyard to explore and play in with his dog.



He sprung up another inch lately (without putting on any more weight really) and is looking long and lean these days. We look at baby pictures of him and can't believe how different he looks!



This month he started saying the dog's name and his own name. He hasn't been talking in real sentences yet, although he'll corner you and "say" a bunch of stuff that you can catch one or two familiar words in.

In addition to the new words he picks up all the time, he's starting "polishing" some of his older words. We've never spoken nor encouraged baby talk, but all the same, I'm sort of sad to see some of the cute ones go. He used to say "ba" for banana, but then he figured out there was more to it...so he'd started saying "balala," sort of rolling his tongue at the end to make up for the extra syllables. But now he's saying banana/nana. Wish I'd gotten "balala" on video.

He loves to label all of the things he knows for us. Often when I get him out of bed in the morning he'll start pointing wildly around the room, naming things for me.

He knows, theoretically, that there's a baby in mama's tummy, and he points out other babies whenever he sees them, but I think he'll still be quite surprised when little sister arrives...

As Adam remarked one morning, he's definitely a strong willed child. He's funny, loving, and curious. And very loved.