21 months (Luke)

• Luke is in a big boy bed now!  He wouldn’t stay in his crib so we decided to go ahead and make it a big boy bed. We had to do Gwynn’s at the same time so she wouldn’t be jealous. We had hoped to wait but Luke had other ideas.
• It takes much longer for Luke to go to sleep. He’ll try to get out of his bed over and over until he’s finally out. Sometimes he’ll fall asleep sooner than others, but it’s rare that it takes less than 15 minutes of Mommy or Daddy sitting in the room with him and making sure he doesn’t cause havoc in his room for him to fall asleep.
• He’s taking one nap a day. It’s usually over an hour and it’s in the afternoon. Since summer has started we’ll have him do more things outside so he’ll get tuckered out. The downside is that if we go to the zoo or the McWane Center he’ll fall asleep in the car and that can throw him off of his sleep schedule. He usually gets up at 6:00am and goes to bed at 8:00pm or 8:30pm but sometimes he goes to bed even later.
• Luke is talking more and more. He doesn’t annunciate very well but he lets us know what he’s thinking.
• He’s wearing 18month - 2T clothes and size 6 or 7 shoes.
• He’s even more into movies and TV shows. Sometimes he’ll last an entire episode. If he sees Monsters Inc he’ll scream “Ink!” and want to watch it.
• Our doors on our entertainment center broke so our DVR/PS3/DVDS/etc are open to the kids. Luke loves taking every single DVD and trying to open it/put it in the PS3. We have to be vigilant.
• Luke still isn’t a huge fan of swimming. He enjoys the kiddie pool at the Y but the big pool is a bit intimidating. In the kiddie pool he’ll take off across the pool which is worrisome since it’s a foot deep and he could still fall and inhale some water.