18 Months

P1 had his 18 month check-up yesterday. As usual, he was not a fan. He screamed bloody murder when we tried to weigh and measure him. It was difficult to get his weight because he wouldn't let go of me.

Weight: 24 lbs 1 oz (25th percentile)

Height: 33.75 in. (84th percentile)

Waiting for the doctor:

He is a happy, healthy boy on all accounts! We are grateful for the good health P1 has always had.

His 3 favorite things to do are cook, play outside, and look at his Noah flap book. He loves to open up the flaps and point to all the animals and have you make the animal sounds. If he's in a willing mood he will make the sounds of a dog, snake, cat, lion, owl, penguin (we say "waddle waddle"), duck, tiger, and sometimes monkey.

P1 learned how to say "this", so now he points to whatever he wants and says "this, this, this..." until you get it for him.

We try to look through the gospel art book daily, and his favorite pages are the ones with the Latter-day Prophets. And he will keep pointing at them until you sing him the Latter-day Prophet song. And then you get to sing it over, and over, and over. I think he'll know all the prophet's names before he even goes to primary. Speaking of which, P1 starts nursery this Sunday! I'm excited for him to go and am sure that it will be a great experience for him.

Visiting Grandpa at his office:

Sharing a cookie at Parsons:

 Car shopping!

Easter

For Easter, we went to the PE's parents for dinner on Saturday. P1's grandma and cousin "hid" Easter eggs in the backyard for P1. But P1 was more interested in digging in the dirt. Maybe we should have buried the eggs!

We finally got him to pick up about 5 eggs, but then he got bored.

Back to the dirt!!!

Tulip Festival

We went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point on Saturday. We've gone the past 2 years and have enjoyed it so we planned on going this year. Unfortunately, ticket prices went up a lot this year, and they didn't have any coupons available like they have done the previous 2 years. And we were excited about taking P1 to the Children's Discovery Garden section this year since he is now actually old enough to enjoy it. But to our dismay, that section was not available with the Tulip Festival. It is blocked off, to be re-opened with the new Museum of Natural Curiosity. So I don't know if we will be going back next year. But the tulips were still beautiful and we enjoyed our time there.

P1 loved playing in the water. A concerned lady came over to make sure that we knew the water our child was playing in was "reclaimed water". PE being a water engineer and both of us having worked at sewer districts, we are both fully aware of where the water comes from. We were tempted to explain to her where drinking water comes from...

They have a display called "Light of the World" with statues of Christ. It was a good reminder of why we celebrate Easter. I know that Christ did suffer and die for me, and that He was resurrected and lives today.

Oh, and one of the workers mistook me for his wife. It was pretty funny, and I guess I have a doppelganger out there.

We enjoyed our time there, but I don't know that we'll go back next year because of the steep ticket price (and lack of the Discovery Garden).