19 Months

Another month has come and gone, and Jude is now another month older!  This month was another crazy busy, yet super fun, month! Birthdays, Father's Day, traveling twice...summertime has been busy!!  If it were up to Jude we would be outside all day every day.  Its really starting to heat up though, so we are trying to either beat the heat or find some water to play in!!  He is able to fully communicate and pretty much tell us what he wants.  We are working on his patience though!  He doesn't quite have that down yet, but we are really trying to help him stop and nicely ask for help or say please for what he wants. Our little guy seems so grown up lately; I just look at him and think where has time gone???  Its so amazing how quickly he grows and learns things.  He is so observant, way more than we even give him credit for, and is soaking up everything thing he sees, hears, and touches!  He is still 100% boy and interested in playing with any type of ball - golf ball, tennis ball, baseball, basketball, soccer ball, football, etc.  He pretty much knows the difference in them all and how you use each of them.  His second favorite love is music.  He loves to sing, dance, and listen to music all day long.  I see both of these things being a big part of our life far into the future!!!  He does still enjoy a good vacuum and loves to cook in his kitchen, so not fully boy! I just can't get enough of this little guy and am so thankful to cherish and experience each day with him.

This face!!!

Dr. Naylor let Jude do his own check up at his 18 month appointment

Meeting Loui with daddy and Aunt Stephie!! He could have stayed there all day long!

Run, run, run all day long

Celebrating Aunt Stephie and Jacob's upcoming wedding

My boys!

Loved finger painting

Couldn't stop laughing at this face

Doing some coloring rather than sweating outside

Playing at the Perot Museum with his cousins Mia & Tripp

Looking and feeling like one of the big boys

I think they could have a sweet duet in the future!

"Mom don't bother me, I'm in the zone!"

Splash, splash, splash

Water fun

Celebrating mommy's birthday - the dads with their boys

Couldn't think of two people I would rather celebrate with! The best present!

Stats:
-His favorite foods right now are grapes, bananas, nectarines, cheese, carrots, "cookies", muffins (mu mu), and his veggie-chicken nuggets.  He also now loves and asks for MILK!!!  We can hardly believe it.  

-Favorite toys are still balls and his bats.  And loves to make anything round and flat a frisbee and chase it all over.

-He has started sitting on his toilet and thinks it is very fun, but doesn't fully understand the whole concept yet.

 -He is saying so much lately and I can honestly not stay up with them all.  The few that come to mind: kitchen, water (wa wa), watermelon, there it is, here you go mama, frisbee (fisbee), Superman (sooop-an), mailbox (ma-box), golf club (golf clalala), cool, crazy.

-He has also started calling me "mom" a lot.  I'm like, are you 15 already?  It cracks me up!

-We started swimming lessons this month.  He is loving them and doing so well.  Its very basic stuff - kicking, scooping his hands, floating on back, crawling along the wall, jumping to mommy, and getting water on his face.  He loves singing all of the songs, but hasn't gotten blowing bubbles down yet.  He just opens and mouth and swallows water!!.
-He points out our freckles and always says "ouch"!! I guess he thinks we have a lot of boo boos.
-Flexes his muscles and growls when we ask him to show us his muscles.
-Still has 4 front teeth on top (with 2 more coming in), 2 top molars, 4 front teeth on the bottom (with 2 more coming in), and 2 bottom molars.  

-Wears size 3 diapers

-Wears mostly 12-18 month pants and 18-24 month tops.  

-Still takes 2 naps most days, but can do fine with only one longer one.  

-His tongue is basically always in unless he is in deep thought or working on something really hard!  

AMERICA

We celebrated the 4th of July with our 5th Annual lake trip to LBJ lake.  It's always a great time spent with friends relaxing and having fun at the lake.  We had a smaller crew this year, and missed some families, but still had a great time.  This year was Jude's first time on the boat and tubing!!  He wasn't too sure what to think of it at first, but really started to enjoy it all once he got more comfortable.  We are so blessed to get to do these things as a family and to do it with friends that we love dearly!!

The crew (minus sleeping Ethan!)

Road trip'n 

Checking out the lake the first morning

Taking a dip in the pool 

Who looks excited to go on a boat ride???

Sticking close to daddy 

Ethan enjoying honking the horn

Enjoying their first tubing experience  

Waving to the other boats

The best 4th of July pic I could get! At least he is sitting down!

The best pic we could get of the two of them together!

Pure joy

A lot of golfing took place this weekend

Toddler "fireworks"

Shaking their "fireworks"

Maenius Family (right before Ethan feel asleep)

Family pic...I promise he enjoyed this more than it looks!

Somebody loved swimming in the lake!

Playing in the sandbox - He thought he was back at the beach!

Playing golf and flying airplanes...ALL WEEKEND LONG!

Daddy's Day!!

We had a wonderful day celebrating Sam on Father's Day!  Jude and I slept in and arranged for Daddy to play golf with his buddies (win, win!).  He came home to a happy little boy to play with and then we had a cookout to celebrate all of the dads and their favorite foods!  We are so blessed to have each of these men as apart of our lives.  They seek the Lord with all of their hearts and lead our families well.  They deserve so much more than one day to celebrate!!