16 Months Old

From summer-like temps in early October to the threat of accumulating snow tomorrow – fall is always full of surprises. The weather has been fairly decent lately so we’ve continued to enjoy nightly walks but we also invested in a weather-shield for our stroller, so we’ll be able to continue taking walks into late-fall/winter on those cold, windy days. We’ve used it a couple times now and the boys stay nice & warm inside of it – so far I’d say it works great!

Yesterday at daycare was big milestone for the boys – they only took ONE nap. The boys have been struggling off & on with their afternoon nap for about a month, so I knew that they were ready to try dropping down to one nap a day but I wanted to wait and let them get into the daycare routine first. Their teacher, Mrs. “B”, said they actually did really well staying up all morning but she is really good at keeping them busy & really involved. They stayed awake through lunch and then fell asleep as soon as they laid down on their sleeping bags. They both slept for almost 3 hours, so that is actually better than the 2-hour morning nap with a little afternoon rest-time they were previously getting. They were a little crabby last evening and went to bed about ½ hour early at 6:30 PM, but they slept all the way through the night, so that wasn’t affected at all. I’m sure it’ll just take a little while to get used to the one-nap and they’ll be back to their cheerful moods in the evenings.

We’ve also been working learning to identify the parts of your body with the boys. Both love playing the “where’s your…?” game but Wyatt gets into it the most. Wyatt can point to his: head, toes, belly, nose, ears and someone else’s eyes. Colton can point this his: head & belly. This is something we do during wind-down time right before bed.

At night, the boys have been sleeping awesome. They are still sleeping around 11-12 hours each night. They fall asleep somewhere between 6:45-7:15 PM. (Our bedtime routine is: bath (on bath night), lotion & jammies, blanket & book.) They go to bed semi-awake and do a good job of putting themselves to sleep. They both have been sleeping until between 6-7 AM, although I now have to wake them up at 6:10 AM on weekdays to get us to daycare & work on-time.

Wyatt
- shakes his head “No”
- loves reading books
- tries to climb on anything & everything (especially stairs!)
- helps throw dirty diapers away & put dirty clothes in the dirty clothes basket
- waves “Hi!” & “Bye!” to everyone (also uses this at bedtime to wave night-night)
- has 2 teeth
Signs
- “More” – he is starting to use this sign again
- “Please”
Words
- “Ma” = mom
- “Da” = dad
- “Ma” = milk
- “That”
- “Da” = dog
- “Go”

Colton
- shakes his head & says “Yes”
- loves reading books
- tries to climb on anything & everything (especially stairs!)
- helps throw dirty diapers away & put dirty clothes in the dirty clothes basket
- waves “Hi!” & “Bye!” to everyone (also uses this at bedtime to wave night-night)
- has 11 teeth (broke through his top two 1-year molars the last week in October)
Signs
- “More” – he is starting to use this sign again
- “Please”
Words
- “Ma” = mom
- “Da” = dad
- “Up”
- “That”
- “Hi!”
- “Yes”