21 Months

Time is flying by, I can't believe that Sterling is nearing his second birthday.  While I can see that, as everyone says, two will be a difficult age, it is so fun as well.  I love listening to all of the interesting things that he says.  He is trying to speak mostly in complete sentences, which can get pretty comical.  For example, Alex taught him instead of just saying, "milk please" to say, "May I have some milk please."  While he has since gotten very good at repeating this phrase it is used to ask for everything.  So if he wants up in your lap he may say, "May I have some up please" or going outside is, "May I have some go outside." That boy really keeps us laughing.

He is so observant and remembers EVERYTHING.  Sometimes it is great, like when he comes out with a phrase that he has heard us say.  For example he was mumbling something the other day in the bathtub and then said, "That was silly."  But his memory also means that if we do something special he remembers it and asks to do it everyday.  It also means that he gets really obsessive about things.

Some of Sterling's newest obsessions are basketball, the moon, and Christmas trees.  Sterling wants to play with the neighbors basketball goal all the time.  A Sterling-sized basketball goal will have to be on his Christmas list this year.

One night after coming home from church, I heard Sterling saying, "moo" in the back seat.  I wasn't sure what prompted him to say that so I was asking questions.  "Moo, did you see a cow."  He has a big imagination and many times he would say yes.  But this time he just kept repeating himself in that tone that let me know I wasn't understanding. 

When we stopped at the house, Sterling ran into the driveway and pointed at the sky and said, "moon."  So we looked at the moon and discussed the crickets and the stars and went inside.  The following week when we were coming home.  Sterling wanted to see the moon.  Unfortunately, the moon is not always out and this just happened to be that phase.  Since you can't explain well to a 1-year-old that the moon is out sometimes and sometimes it's not, we decided to go in and look at it on the computer.  Now anytime we are outside or I am on the computer Sterling wants to look at the moon or . . .

Christmas trees.  I decided one day to show him pictures of him in front of the Christmas tree.  I can't really remember why, but I think that we saw a tree in a book that looked like one and I thought, "Well he doesn't even know what a Christmas tree looks like." 

Now he is OBSESSED with Christmas trees.  Nanie, he will be in LOVE with your house this December (she puts up about 15 trees around the house each year). 

It has gotten to the point that he talks about them everyday.  I found one of his Christmas books and that has satisfied him some, but we were at the grocery store today and he was looking for Christmas trees there. So, when I have my Christmas tree out this year early in November, don't judge it is for my son.  However, today I did think that I could put up his little tree in his room so that he could see it everyday and I could still enjoy fall.  Would that be crazy?  A little bitty Christmas tree in October?  I do still have my Christmas cards hanging up because he loves looking at them.  Oh, the things we do for our children!

Sterling really enjoys coloring and reading books to himself.  He has loved the pretty weather and being able to go out and play baseball or swing. 

Blogger has changed how to upload pictures and now I can't get any of the up and down ones to do right.  Is anyone else having these problems and if so how did you get it to work.