Nash-man is 18 month old!

Super star!

complete with Mommy's sandals-on the wrong feet of course!

after his first swim of the season

he has a lot of fun at meal times

showing me all his teeth.

Geez...I don't have a little baby boy anymore! He is officially a big boy. I can't believe he is a year and a half old! What a blast it has been though. Pictures do you more justice at this point in your life than trying to describe it, but I will give it a shot.

Nash-

what a cool little dude you are! You are ALL boy. You love water, getting dirty in any way possible and eating basically anything you can get your hands on. You like mud, sand and the occasional rock the best. You have yet to swallow the rocks (thank goodness you prefer the bigger kind). You actually have been pretty obsessed with rocks recently. Instead of throwing them in the pond like you used to do, you hoard them and try and bring them inside at night. Speaking of inside, you basically cry and throw a good fit when we do make you come inside. You have developed quite the little tan line from being outside all of the time.

You still sleep throughout the night and take two good naps most days. YAY! You are a great sleeper. You still sleep with a pacifier and your bear-one of these days maybe the bear will have a name. You have a blue paci with stars that is your fave, but in a pinch any of them will do-even your sissy's. When it's bedtime, you tell us bye bye and wave to tell us goodnight.

You eat pretty much anything we feed you. You still don't like strawberries and any kind of bean, but other than that you are a good eater. Some of your faves are string cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, yogurt, apples, cutie oranges, bananas and spaghetti. We struggle getting you to eat veggies, but we are working on it. You drink a lot of milk and water and occasionally we let you have some juice with water in it.

You have your own little language and use the same sounds for the same "things", but they usually aren't the correct words. We are working on it, but it is a struggle right now.

We have started potty training! You have shown a lot of interest in the potty and you always tell us when you pee pee or poop in your diaper, so we thought we would start. You also have started to be embarrassed a little when you do poop in your diaper and you hide from us and won't look us in the eye. So far, no luck with anything in the toilet, but we have our prizes waiting just in case!

You have all your teeth. You have gorgeous little teeth and the next ones to come in are your two year molars. You were a champ at teething and very rarely made a fuss about it.

You still LOVE your crib. I wonder sometimes about changing it to a big boy bed, but you show no interest in climbing out. You are perfectly content after you wake up in the mornings or after naps to just hang out for a little bit until we come get you. You never cry to get out of your crib! EVER.

You know where quite a few body parts are. Your eyes, ears, teeth, nose, toes and belly. We are working on more. You have picked up reading books again recently and we read books a lot.

You are recognizing that people come and go now, especially the grandparents. Your feelings get hurt and you cry when they leave now.

You are such an amazing little dude and we feel very honored to be your parents and for you to be in our lives. I can't wait to see what kind of boy you turn into as you continue to grow up.