20 Months

This has been a good month. The others have also been good, but this one seems extra good!

In his outfit from his auntie

Mateo in his tux from Grandma

Mateo finally seems to not be hurting himself as much as before. He is more crazy, but somehow he is pretty good at what he does. His antics are very scary for his mommy, but I only can run and look so many places at once. Another good thing about this month is that he seems to be throwing less. Maybe we have learned how to deescalate the situation before he feels the need to throw? Fewer things ruined this month...

Mateo is growing even stronger. Physically and mentally. It takes the 2 of us to brush his teeth each night. One to restrain (using lots of muscles) and another to brush the teeth. Tonight was the best it has ever gone. Mateo was having fun putting a toy in daddy's mouth. We will try the trick again! I finally was able to count his teeth without him biting me. There are more than the last count. Last time I counted he had 16. Now I felt 2 coming in, so I figured it would make it 18. Once I started counting I saw on the bottom 5 teeth in each direction and on the top 5 on one side and 4 on the other! I think 2 are poking through, is that possible? Nope. I just looked, hehe. He should have 20 teeth. So what I thought is a tooth coming through was nothing. He has 19 and the last one is working its way out. Could that be why he has had some restless nights?

Mateo was sick this month. He ate almost nothing. I don't have a problem that he doesn't eat, but I got highly frustrated of making food for him to try. He would take one or two bites and the rest I would throw away. Even things that he always would eat. This week he is making up for it. He stood on the scale tonight and it said 12.2 kg/26.89 lb.

Little man seems to be doing fine with our new schedule. He is supposed to sleep earlier on Sunday and Wednesdays, because we need to leave around 7:30 the following mornings. He has had a few emotional mornings when I dropped him at his aunt's, but normally he doesn't cry once I leave. Normally when I go to pick him up he doesn't want to leave! He loves seeing his cousins, playing outside there and playing with new toys. The nice thing is that when we get home he is excited to play with his toys that he hasn't seen for a while.

There is lots of chattering going on, but not very many new words. What do we have so far? Baby, baba, mama, da da, bye bye, kijk, uh-oh, nee, ja, die, Ee (for Eva), plus lots of sounds and imitations.

I reintroduced his puzzles. He is enjoying the fishing magnet one and a wooden one with pegs. He plays every day with his balls, cars and Little People.

What Mateo does right now that is very cute is that he knocks on the window to get attention of people walking past and he loves knocking on doors.