Jack 20 Months

 

 

To My Sweet Boy,

 

The past few weeks have been so crazy I have slacked a bit on your 20 month letter and am a few weeks late.  We have had an eventful month and you continue to amaze us every day with the new words you say and new things you do.  You are really beginning to articulate your words and string along little mini sentences.  You have been repeating a lot of what your dad and I say and I really need to start watching my mouth.  A few of my favorite memories this month was when I was putting you in the car after school and I said “Alright baby let’s go” and you yelled back to me “Alright baby”.  It just cracked me up the way you said it.  I can’t get enough of your cute little voice and contagious laughter. 

 

At the beginning of June we went to Puerto Rico on a little family getaway. It was so incredibly wonderful to be away just the three of us to relax and to celebrate mommy’s good friend Marissa’s wedding. I started crying when I dressed you up in your little sport coat and bow tie. You are such a little man, and it tears at my heart to see how fast you are growing as time truly is going by too fast. 

 

 

 

 I will say you are definitely getting harder to wrangle on a plane.  You are a busy a little bee and have lots to do at all times.  You play so hard from the moment you wake up until you go to bed.  You are obsessed with trains, cars, trucks, and tractors.  I love watching you push your little dump truck around the house.  You barrel around the corners of tables and chairs focused and as fast as your little legs will take you.  Your athletic skills continue to improve and you have a mean overhand throw.  You switch hands often but are definitely stronger with your left then your right.  Your swimming continues to improve although you hate swim lessons.  You love to swim with mommy and daddy but when Miss Jen comes it sounds like we are torturing you for 20 minutes while you learn to float on your back.  Your kicking in the water and outside with soccer balls gets better every day. 

We have been spending as much time as we can at the beach on the weekends.  I love watching you play in the sand with all of your toys.  You are so content and independent it makes us feel very lucky to have such a good little boy.  Then there are the moments when a plane, or a bird, or a kite appear and we are chasing you all over the beach.  Your curiosity is high right now and you have absolutely no fear. 

 

 While you are busy in the day my favorite moments are often at night when you still fall asleep in my arms.  One thing that happened this month that was so special was we were lying on a beach chair in Puerto Rico and you were just fighting your nap.  I started singing my special version of “You Are My Sunshine” and you just stopped, stared at me with wide eyes, and became still.  I realized that I had not sung that to you in awhile as we listen to your Norah Jones playlist before bed every night.  You bet I have started singing it to you again as your reaction each time was so sweet.  I must have sang that song to you 5,000 times within the first six months of your life.  It seems so long ago that you were a baby.  Speaking of long, you are getting so long!  You take up the whole bed, seriously it gets harder and harder to have you in our bed for any length of time because your dad and I are constantly getting kicked or hit in the face by one of your arms or legs.

 

  While you are as sweet as can be 95% of the time, you are definitely becoming a toddler.  You test us and there are days when you drive us nuts.  I write this because someday you will go through the same thing and this letter will be proof that you tested our patience too.  You have learned the word “mine” which we kind of don’t like because everything is mine, mine, mine.  Your dad and I try not to laugh when you do things that you aren’t suppose to but sometimes they are funny coming from a toddler.  I will say it does not stop us from getting you to listen.  I love you so much Jack, I am flying high in the sky right now sad to be away from you.  But as usual I know you are living each moment of your little life to the fullest while I am gone.  Momma will be home tomorrow.  I love you sweet boy.