15 Months

John Turner is now 15 months old! It makes me a little sad to say that! He is growing up way too fast for me! He is running around and learning new things every day! He amazes us each day with something new that he has learned. He is still just a happy little monkey most of the time! He hardly ever fusses! I feel so lucky about that! He is a very loving little thing! He runs up and gives us hugs and kisses all of the time.

He is still a wonderful sleeper! He is still sleeping about 12 hours each night. He goes to bed around 8:00 and wakes up around 8:00. We have recently weaned him from his morning nap. He now takes only one nap a day. He usally goes down around 1:30 or 2:00. He naps for about 2 hours.

John Turner weighs 20 pounds and 9 ounces(only in the 5 percentile in weight!! SKINNY!!). He is 30 1/2 inches long. All of his pants just fall right off of his skinny little booty!!
He is not a good eater! It is hard for us to get him to eat anything! He will not touch any meat or vegetables! He loves fruits, breads, yogurt, cheese, desserts, and any breakfast food you will give him! We are going to keep working on getting him to eat more! He has recently decided drinking everything out of a straw is the best way! He loves when we go out to eat and he can drink out of our straws!

He loves Elmo!!! I mean he really loves Elmo!! We have to watch Sesame Street every morning! We record it if we are out and watch it later in the day. He will either sit on his car or in my lap and watch the entire hour of Sesame Street. He gets very excited and runs up to the TV and dances and stomps his feet when Elmo's World begins. It is so funny and cute!! He also like to watch The Wonder Pets. Since he has finally gotten to turn foward facing in his carseat he is able to watch the TV in our car. As soon as he gets in his seat he says "moo"(movie) or "Elmo" and points to the TV.

He still enjoys reading books. He now likes to take the books and open them and pretend he is reading them. His favorite books right now are any books with a picture of "Ho Ho"(Santa Clause) , a book about colors( he like the page about purple--he turns to it and says "purple"--he will also say blue), and a book about dogs("pup pup" is what he calls them).

John Turner is in the process of getting his one year molars. He is drooling like he did when he was 5 months old! We can see those big teeth starting to come through! OUCH!! He doesn't want us to brush his teeth. He wants to do it all by himself. He likes to sit in his sink at night to brush them.
He can't point to most of his body parts. He loves finding ours more than finding his own! Belly buttons are his favorite to find!! He also loves making animal sounds. His favorites are the sheep, cow, snake, bee and duck.

I find him standing on his head all of the time now! He thinks it is so funny to look through his legs and say "boo". He just giggles and giggles when he does it!

He is also a very good climber. He has gotten very brave with is climbing. I have to really watch him!

He loves singing and dancing. He is getting Kindermusik classes for Christmas. He will start in January and we know he will love it!

He is quite the entertainer. When he is around strangers and they talk to him he just grins and waves and walks over to them. He wants people to laugh at him and pay attention to him--but he does not want anyone to touch him! He is all friendly and enteraining until they try to touch him or pick him up--that causes a major breakdown!

I was trying to pack up his baby toys in this tub to make room for what Santa is bringing. You see how much help he was!

John Turner has developed quite the vocabulary lately! I just love hearing him say new words each day. I have lost track of all of the words he knows. Here are a few of his favorite words lately:

• "go-go"-first thing he says when we wake up in the morning--he doesn't care where we are going he just wants to go somewhere!
• Momma, Dada, Papaw, Ha-Ha(Aunt Holly), Car-Car(Cousin Carly), Baby Books(Cousin Brooks), Ah-Ah(Oliver Cat) He won't say Gran yet and it is killing my mom!!
• purple, blue
• night-night
• knee, eye
• bath
• book
• pup-pup(dog)
• milk
• cup
• Elmo
• boo
• bow
• ball
• cookie
• moo(movie)
• and a ton of other words we can't understand!!