22 months! Late! (naturally)

Colin turned 22 months old this past week. When I saw this picture that Mike took this week, I realized that there is really no baby left in Colin's face. What has Colin been up to as he approaches 2?

• He's talking so much and putting together two word phrases all the time. He likes to point out whose stuff is whose.. like "mommy shoe!" and "daddy cook!" (the grill). He's getting really good at repeating the alphabet one letter at a time and he comes up with new words every day. I can't believe I was ever worried he wouldn't talk! He seems to understand an alarming amount of what we say. We're really having to watch ourselves!



• He still loves cleaning. He's now obsessed with the washing machine. Every day he asks me to wash clothes, and he "helps" me gather clothes and throw them into the washing machine. Then he yells "up!" until I hold him so we can watch the washing machine go around. The upside is that we are all caught up on our laundry now. The downside is we spend a lot of time watching the washing machine go around and around on the weekends.



• His favorite things are lawnmowers, trucks, trains and airplanes. If he even thinks he hears a lawnmower, he will shout "lawmo!" and try to find where it is coming from (and if our neighbors are mowing, he pulls out his little lawnmower and pushes it around while beaming at the neighbor guy mowing. It's adorable). He also loves spotting trucks and airplanes when he hears them (luckily for him, we have a ton of small airplanes that go over our neighborhood from the Purdue airport). He's such a boy.



• He's moving even faster these days- running, trying to jump, climbing on everything, and he's figured out how to open door handles. We never rest.



• Even though he's always been daddy's boy, recently he's been sharing the love with me, giving lots of hugs and wanting to hold mommy's hand. I'm loving this stage, however brief it may be!