20 months old!

Today Raegan is 20 months old.  Aahhh that is too close to 24 months (2 years) that sounds so old... where did the time go. 

You have become quite the little chatter box.  You tell everyone you see "HI" in a loud voice and get excited when you get a response back from them and if they ignore you, then you just get louder with "HI, HHIII, HHHIIII!"  You can repeat words well, like yesterday in the car when you pointed to the Penske moving truck next to us and said "what's that?" and I said "truck" and you repeated it back to me, "truck." You love learning new things, recently you've learned how to say turtle, gobble, gobble, wow, uhh uhh, huh?, choo choo, winnie the pooh, I help my momma, that's my dada, where's dada, boots, dirty diaper, yuck, hmm... that's all I can think of right now, but you seem to learn new words ALL the time.

You are definitely testing us everyday to see what you can get away with and what you'll get in trouble for.  The main things you test us the most on are putting on your pajamas, sitting in your carseat and highchair without a fight, and climbing on the dishwasher. We usually give you the count to 3 warning, which works about 25% of the time.  Sometimes you get sent to timeout for about a minute, most of the time this works well and you come out and give me a hug and do whatever it was I needed you to do (i.e. sit in your high chair) right away.  Sometimes you get a little spanking, never hard but it gets your attention.  Disciplining you is very hard, but we know its the right thing to do and its what's best for you, so that you grow up learning right from wrong.  Just remember we love you so much!

Last night you changed your own diaper... no seriously, your dad had just changed you about five minutes before you took off your own diaper, said "yuck" and took it to the trash, then you grabbed a new diaper and laid it out and laid down on it and waited for me to come stick the side tabs together for you.  Your dad checked and sure enough the one you took off was wet.  We wish you liked your potty.  Your daycare teacher, Robby, told me that every time after you "go" in your diaper you point at it and say "eww."  She said she always knows when to change you.  We're all hoping you learn to tell us before hand soon.  ; )