18 months!!!

Well Remy has finally reached the ripe ol' age of 18 months. He is quite the little busy body and has so many funny things that he does. I wanted to use the chance to write some of these down. Things he loves: puppies, balloons, reading "Cowboy Baby" over and over, being outside, helping Daddy mow the lawn. It's funny to watch him riding with Shaun because he just smiles the whole time and watches me as they ride back and forth. I wave to him and he just smiles and waves back like he is the coolest boy with the coolest Dad ever. He loves to hold Mommy's hand, or anybodys for that matter when walking around. He loves Chappy, even though he constantly gets lick attacked. He also loves fries, rice and beans, Doritos (he takes after Mommy).

When the TV is on Remy will always point and say "puppy" when any animal appears on the screen. Remy will pant and woof, or combine the two whenever he sees a puppy or animal that he thinks may make that noise. Whenever food commercials come on he goes Mmmmm, MMmmm!! and points at the delicious food he sees. He is starting to become a hugger and hugs the nurses at my office before we go home. He loves to give high fives, blow kisses and occasionally he will shake hands and give knuckles. He is very smiley and talks all of the time. He says over 25 words that I can recognize. He likes to talk on the phone, well pretend phone. He uses his yoyo in the car, or the rubber blood vessel model I have in my office. He will talk on it and say Daddy and laugh and laugh.

He is a sweet boy and likes to come up and sit right next to Mommy and have me read him books. If he trips or does something that he thinks is a little risky he will say "whoa" and his eyes get all big and serious. Remy also says "uh oh", and "yucky" all of the time. He picked those up from me because I say them when he is doing something he shouldn't or trying to eat something that is totally gross. He loves to check the water bottles in Grandpa's office at work, point to pictures and say who is in them. He is also getting really good at pointing and knowing where stuff is. If I ask him if he wants something or where something is he will run and point or get what I need. He is getting very observant and will now fold his arms for a prayer all by himself. We haven't ever made him do it but he watches and will now do it by himself. He likes to play in the basement in his "fort". He runs to the stairs and points up to the light switch so he can see to go downstairs. I bought him one of those little foam couches that opens up into a bed with a sleeping bag. He loves it. He doesn't look to thrilled in the picture before but he had just woken up from a nap and was still a little sleepy.

I am entering that wonderful part of motherhood where Remy does everything that he sees, and yes, he watches us very closely. Well, you mothers know, that you don't get much privacy for anything. Yesterday when I was making dinner I turn to look at Remy and watched him pull his pants down and than sit on the bar of the oven like he was going " potty". Now either he is the youngest kid to actually understand potty or he just doesn't give Mommy any privacy and is now going to go about doing all of these things no matter how unfortunate that may be.

One of my favorite recent stories from Remy is when my Mom, Dad, Remy and Me were all heading to lunch one day. We were in my Mom's Yukon and she was driving. Now, for some background, we are always harassing my Mom about her driving because she is always the passenger that will squeak and ooooh and ahhh when you are driving like you are in the middle of a demolition derby. Anyway back to the story, we were waiting to pull out the office which is a nightmare during lunch because of all of the traffic. Well my Mom saw her chance and gunned it. Remy, having the perfect timing and sweetest little voice in the world said "WHOOOAAAAAA!!!" as we were pulling out. It was so funny. His timing couldn't have been anymore perfect. My Dad and I were laughing so hard and my Mom was grumbling to herself because how can you be mad at such a sweet innocent little boy.

Remy's 18 month stats

Height: 33 inches, 72%

Weight: 24 pounds 14 ounces, 37%

Head: 19 1/4 inches, 80%

A boy and his balloon

Remy loves so many things in life. Quite frankly it doesn't take much to get him excited but his favorite above all things are puppies and balloons. We went to Wingers Friday night and when he saw the balloons, well, to put it lightly he started screaming and basically tackled the seating hostess. She just laughed and asked if he wanted a balloon. Since he got that balloon he hasn't let it out of his site. He constantly carries it around, he even holds it while he eats. Every time he gets a balloon it is the same reaction. He keeps dragging them around till they are nothing but a small balloon raisin. He gets especially excited though when he has a new balloon that still floats. I spend a large majority of my day pulling it down from the ceiling because when it gets a rare slip out of his fist and floats away he goes around saying "uh oh!! uh oh!! uh oh!!!".

Remy also got introduced to fry sauce thanks to Aunt Mary. Remy usually doesn't like his food dipped into things. He will eat it and than pull it out of his mouth and throw it on the ground. That was not how it went with the fry sauce though. He really loved it. The silly boy got so consumed by the deliciousness of it he didn't even take time for a fry. He just kept dipping his finger in it and licked it off.

Today we went to a birthday party for one of my nephews. It was a swimming party at the Apple athletic club. Although getting into a swimsuit sounds about as exciting to me right now as getting kicked in the head, I knew Remy would love it and we definitely wanted to go to the party. He was such a natural little tadpole. He just loved it. He takes after his mommy I can tell. He was so brave that he would even let us throw him back and forth between Shaun and I. He would jump off the edge into our hands. It was fun and the only way that we could convince him to let us get out of the water is that luckily it was a birthday party and they had balloons to lure him out with. It was a fun day.

Busy week!!

Big holidays are always fun and busy!! We had so many plans and things to do that it is almost hard to remember all what we did. I started the excitement off early by going to the Eclipse premiere with some friends. I do have to admit that I loved it!! It is fun going opening day because you have all of the excitement and people who really wanted to wait in line to go. It was funny because the first time that Jacob appears with his shirt off there was a lot of whistling and clapping from the audience. It was fun.

The next day we went to my 10 year high school reunion. It was definitely a hard pill to swallow that I have now been out of high school for 10 years. It was fun to see friends and get to see their little families and hear what they have been up to these past 10 years.

My sister and her family came up for the fourth of July weekend. We ate a lot of food, had Mary put on a glitter-toe party for the girls. We even played badminton which we are totally awesome at (cough cough). Our badminton consists of a hose on the ground for the net, rackets whose strings are held together with duck tape and birdies that look like they have been used as a nest for a small group of rats. It sure is not going to be considered for a special on ESPN anytime soon but we love to play. We are legends in our own minds and that is all that really matters isn't it?

Remy also got to go fishing for his first time up by the ranch. He loved it!!! I helped him reel in his fish and he was just screaming and laughing when he saw the fish jumping in the water and flopping on the ground. We went out in a little boat to get to a new crop of fish and Remy spent most of his time splashing in the water. I know, I know, I am a bad mother and didn't put Remy in a life-jacket. My mom kept yelling at us from the shore at how irresponsible we were and that we were sure to capsize the boat. To be fair, I am a good swimmer and the water is shallow enough that you can touch. Sure we would have been a little cold, and sure we would have been eating our words about how safe we are but whatever, we are rebels.


With all of the excitement Remy was so worn out!!! He really actually stayed awake the whole way home but he did also keep his blanky over his head. Sweet little boy :-)

Since we were all together we took the opportunity to take some family pictures. I will upload some of those later but here is one with the three little rebels. It is so hard to get them all looking at the camera and not trying to bail off of the swing. This was the best picture I could get. I also included one of Remy's individual pics.