22 Months!

Collins recently turned 22 months old! He is so much fun right now. It's a challenge getting these pictures with the signs, but I keep trying for some reason. At first he was not having any of it, but then MawMaw got creative and helped me out!

Doing "Here's the church; here's the steeple."

On July 19th and 20th I woke up to a sick baby. Collins had fever, so I kept him home and prepared myself for a stomach bug. Luckily, he never had any other symptoms but fever. It got up to 103.9 one time, but I just kept medicine and fluids in him, so he was fine. He mostly just wanted to lie around and look at pictures and videos of himself on my phone :) On Friday, he took a nap in my bed (for the first time since he was a newborn). After sleeping about 2.5 hours, he was back to feeling normal!

Feeling much better the following week! Mrs. Donna from church made the outfit he's wearing in the picture below. She made about four shirts for us and a few pairs of shorts. The car seat or high chair are the only places I can take his pic without him grabbing for my phone and saying, "Doddins!" (Collins)

 

Some new things this past month: 

• "Oh no!" Usually followed by "Man, shoot!"
• "Oooone more time" Sometimes used appropriately, sometimes not.
• "No, no bees!" (No, no boys--a picture of two boys fighting in his book--he loves it.)
• "Me me pep pep mit mit" Collins' version of "peppermint"
• "Sorry" Tends to do things sometimes just so he can apologize
• "Knot hole" (In the head board. except he thinks we're saying, "not hole" so he shakes his head when he says it :)
• "Little big hill" The opposite of "big hill," according to Collins
• "Happy Maw" How he told Maw "happy birthday"
• "Wood" He thinks wood is the culprit anytime he gets hurt because he knows the headboard and floors are made of wood. He has even knocked on my head after bumping it with his own and declared my head, "wood." Watch it, young-un'.
• "Mis-sippi"
• "Tootie Tot!" His new favorite song/game. Taught by Katie and Meri Davis :)
• "O-meal" Oatmeal