Month 23

We had such a fun month full of Fall and Halloween activities!!  It has been so fun this year getting to experience Jude really get to enjoy these things, now that he is a bit older, and see them through his eyes.  Its a whole new world with a little guy in the picture!  He has become so talkative and conversational lately.  He is always asking "Whatch do'n" (or what's dada do'n, what's mama do'n, etc.), or "What's dat", or "Where so and so".  Pretty much when we start this game we go through every name that he knows!!  He really cares about all of the people in his life and what they are up to!  He also FINALLY started saying "Lov you" back to us!!  It just warms my heart to hear him say that to us!  He has such a big heart and always shows it, but to hear it takes it to a whole new level!  He still pretty much spends his waking hours practicing some type of sport whether is be baseball, basketball, football, tennis, or golf he's not very picky!  His newest thing is every time he hits the baseball (or comes close) he throws his bat down and runs around the room or to touch the wall and yells HOME RUN!  The funniest thing is that we did not teach him this, but he simply learned it by going to dada's softball games.  Speaking of, this little boy lives for those weekly softball games!  For days leading up to the game, every time I would pick him up from his nap he would ask if he could go "watch dada pla baball??".  He will sit in his stroller most of the game just taking it all in and cheering when he's not concentrating too hard!  Its so cute - truly his daddy's biggest fan! His other newest "trick" is with golf - he now makes his golf ball bounce and hits it while bouncing.  This kid can get a lot of air on the ball - I'm not sure how nothing is broken yet!  This year for Halloween Jude was Clark Kent and loved wearing his cape and glasses!  He thought trick-or-treating was pretty fun too!  We went with a few other friends and after teaching them what to do at the first house, they had it down!  We would wheel the wagon from house to house, Jude would say "we here" at each house, and they would climb out to go get their candy.  The hardest part was ensuring they only took 1 piece of candy rather than a handful (or sometimes many handfuls)!!

I think he enjoyed it!!

Nash Farms Fall Festival 

Maybe he should start doing the laundry around here??

Hanging with Daddy and Ethan

Wonderful time with friends in OK - Ellie & Jadie

OKC Zoo with Gracy and friends

Riding the train with Grancy and Daddy

One of his new obsessions - ping pong

(Sam DVR'd one game and now he always wants to watch it!)

Someone has been practicing!  Great form bud!

Painting Pops a pic before his surgery 

Playing baseball with Daddy's bat

The best pic of Jude catching a ball!! HA!

Pumpkin carving time! He had no interest in touching the "guts"

He helped for a total of ~2 mins, but daddy had fun finishing it!

Clark Kent having fun with friends at the Arboretum 

Sweet friends

Weird, Jude throwing something! 

He didn't understand that pumpkins aren't for throwing!

Time to trick-or-treat with Ethan the astronaut 

Superman still needs his mommy, right???

Riley and Jude ready to go to their first house

Someone maybe opened their first sucker before we could stop him! 

 At least it was his only piece!

Trick-or-Treat!!! How could you resist these three??

Heading back home for the night, it was a SUCCESS!!! 

Stats:

-Weight: ~26 pounds

-Favorite foods: Grapes, mini oranges, turkey roll ups, and salmon 

-He has really started to pretend play a lot more, and gets extra creative with his sound effects!  Its so fund to stand back and watch. 

-This guy loves to sing and our favorite time to practice is in the car.  His favorites right now are ABCs, Happy Birthday, Twinkle Twinkle, Jingle Bells, Row Row your Boat, and Jesus Loves Me. 

-Speaking of the car, it cracks me up if I go over a bump, have to stop fast, or take a sharp turn he says "Whoa Mama"!!  He's already critiquing my driving, ha!

-When he really wants something, he'll ask for it and instantly say, "OK" or "Thank you" like he is already convinced and there are no questions to be asked!

-His favorite book right now is his Texas Book and his favorite part is getting to dance to the mariachi band in SA. 

-We have started ending every night not just saying our prayers like normal, but saying our prayers under the covers in our "tent"!
-Its gross, but true, Jude has started picking his boogers and gets super proud of himself when he gets one!  He always says "got it" and holds it up for you to wipe off his finger.  At least we are still wiping it off, but we'll have to work on our manners with this one! 

-He now has 6 front teeth on top, and 2 molars, 6 front teeth on the bottom, but now 5-6 molars (I'm staring to loose count).

-Wears size 4 diapers

-Wears mostly 18-24 month or 2T clothes and size 6 shoes. 

-Takes 2 naps most days, or one nap and one "rest" period in the afternoon.

Month 22

Another great month down and some how only two months away from my "baby" turning 2!!!  I'll try not to focus on that though, and focus on all of the fun that we had this past month!  We had a lot of visitors the first half of the month, with both set of grandparents coming to visit, and spent the rest of the month attempting to do "fall" things with the summer weather that is still hanging around!!  We took Jude to his first high school football game and he was a FAN!!  From the actual football game, music playing from the speakers, and the bands playing he was well entertained!  We also visited our first pumpkin patch of the year (now he is obsessed with pointing out ALL pumpkins he sees) and went to visit the firemen (wooh-wooh).  We also started his weekly music class which he absolutely LOVES!!  He now wakes up and often asks "moosic cas"???  His favorite songs are the "active" songs or playing the instruments.  He also highly enjoys when the parachute gets to come out; so far he is one of the only ones that is brave enough to go under it and thinks its hilarious! He did get asked though to leave the circle a few classes ago because he couldn't keep from throwing the bells (I honestly had a hard time not laughing about this).  Also, although baseball and basketball rank as his favorites, his newest favorite sports to play are soccer and tennis!  This kid could honestly play one of these sports all day long, he never gets tired of them!  He can also sing most of the A,B,C song with some help (although sometimes he can get pretty "creative") and can count to 10 with some help.  He still tends to count everything as 1, 2, 3 but every now and then he'll show he really knows them all!!  Little stinker!  Last month everything was the color "bue" (blue), but now this month everything is "red".  He definitely also knows yellow, white, black, green, and purple.  His favorite letter is still "B" and can pick it out anywhere, but is also good with "A" and "S".  It is so fun getting to watch this little guy learn and grow.  It just amazes us daily how much he absorbs and learns without us even teaching him.  He is a little sponge just trying to figure this whole big world out!!

First, Grancy came to visit (Pops came a few days later)

We took her to play at open gym

And to get his first milkshake (which he had the death-grip on!!)

Then to the park to play with Mia & Tripp

He thought he was so big

He was obsessed with Grancy's watch all week, so she finally got him his own watch!

Last, we went to the Perot Museum

Jude and daddy racing a cheetah 

(I'm pretty sure the Cheetah is already done here!! ha!)

Checking out the dinosaurs 

The next weekend Mo and Ba-Paw came to visit (with some treats!!)

Helping daddy & Ba-Paw build a shed

Dancing to the Beatles with Mo

Jamming with his guitar (g-tar)

Watching daddy & Ba-Paw cut the wood - its loud!!

Playing with his bud Ethan - high five

Enjoying some finger painting 

(he still prefers to use the sponges)

Our first pumpkin patch of the season

(now if we can just keep him from throwing all of the pumpkins)

Stomping in the puddles after the rain.  

I also taught him how to float leaf boats!

Flower Mound High football game

Visiting the fire station

Putting out the fire! 

Early morning Saturday mow session with Ethan (just like their daddy's)

Taking some batting practice in his PJs

(Bad news for mommy, Jude found daddy's real bat 

and insists doing this the "real" way! Watch out!!)

Yes, its still hot!!

Snuggles with daddy after nap time

Stats:

-His favorite foods right now are hot dogs (aka: healthier turkey dogs), sweet potatoes fries, mac-n-cheese, grapes, and yogurt. 

-Baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis all the time!!

-Loves to read books, although he tends to be a very "active" reader! His favorite books right now are "5 Little Monkey's", his "Me" book, and his "star" book. 

-He loves to skip, jump, gall-up, march, stomp, etc. Especially in the hallway upstairs because it makes more noise!

-He enjoys doing "art projects" with finger paint, water colors, crayons, and play dough.  He also loves to get his hands on a forbidden pen!!!

-He loves to entertain and be the center of attention, he'll say "I munny" (I funny)!

-He has started saying "I no wan it" (I don't want it) or "nope" when he doesn't want something.  One is polite, one is not!

-Loves getting under the covers in mommy & daddy's bed.  He has to get settled in them in-between each book at night and before prayers (again, "active reader").  

-When he wants something or is ready to do something, he has started to yell milk-TIME, swing-TIME, muffin-TIME, etc.  Cracks me up!  

-Has been for a very long time, and is still, obsessed with mommy's necklaces, bracelets, and watches.  I'm pretty sure I've already lost several!

-He still has 6 front teeth on top, 2 top molars, 6 front teeth on the bottom, and 3 bottom molars.  Although, it is evident he is currently working on some more back molars.  

-Wears size 4 diapers

-Wears mostly 18 month pants and 18-24 month tops.  Size 5 or 6 shoes. 

-Takes 2 naps most days, or one nap and one "rest" period in the afternoon.  

Month 21

We rounded out this last month of summer by spending as much time as possible in the sun, as evidenced below!!  This bodes very well for running off some energy for this busy little guy.  Jude is talking so much and becoming our little parrot. It may not come off perfectly, but makes for some pretty funny moments for us!  Sports still pretty much rule his world.  The words baseball (ba-ball), basketball goal (ba-ket-go-go), golf ball game (gof-ba-ga), and tennis (tenis) come out of his mouth approximately every 10 seconds.  I truly think that is all that is on his mind!!  And he's pretty good at all of them (at least in his mommy and daddy's eyes).  He practices all day long and gets pretty upset if you make him stop or leave his "game". Even in his crib he'll be saying "shoot the basketball" and putting his arm up like he's practicing!  He is also starting to learn a few letters and be able to pick them out - the "B" letter is his favorite, but second behind is "A".  He has said 1-2-3 for quite awhile now, but he is now learning how to actually point and count things. We have also been working on learning colors.  Although we know he knows a few more colors, everything is always bue (blue).  He though can also say yellow, red, green and some times orange.  To round out his all-boyness, he also loves trucks.  When we are driving he likes to point out the big truck (bi tuck), the dump trucks (dum tuck), fire trucks (woo woo), and the tractors (ta-tor).  This boy truly fits the "all boy" mold, but equally has the sweetest, most loving personality.  He definitely has his strong-willed, independent moments, but still has the sweetest heart.  He always wants everyone involved and will come looking for you if you aren't.  Its like a mamma hen gathering all of her chicks; he just wants us all to be together all the time.  To round it out, one of our biggest accomplishments of this month is pee peeing in the potty!!  We have been putting his on his potty before bath time for awhile and now he finally gets what its for!  He has only done it a few times, but hey, its a step!  To say he (and we) were proud is an understatement!!  Such a big boy!

Backyard water fun

Do you think he likes it???

"Dada, it's raining (wain)!!"

Splash-pad fun

He thought it was hilarious to just wear his shoes after church

"Helping" mommy water the plants

Loves going to Home Depot

I think he could eat an entire watermelon by himself!!

Mommy, why are you getting rid of these shoes?  

It was hilarious watching him attempt to walk`

Crazy hair in the wind - we got a haircut the next week!!

Playing with E-tan (Ethan) and Bandon (Brandon) - he is obsessed with Brandon!

He loves hanging from the chin-up bar.  He can just hang there for so long!  

Soon he'll be doing pull-ups!  

"I fix it" - helping daddy "fix" his airplane with dada's drill

Fishies!!!

First hotel stay!! Enjoying hanging out on the bed with dada

He ran through the hotel hallways like this every time we went out there. 

 I guess this was his way of catching some wind!!

Loves dancing with ear buds 

Attempt at a family pic in Austin

Having some "coffee" with RyRy in Austin 

 

Splash play date with friends

Big Jude and Little Jude

 

Last visit to the waterpark!

He thought he was too big for the baby slide; he upgraded to the "big" slide!

Even by himself!! He was so proud!

Dada ba-ball bat (baseball bat) and baby ba-ball bat 

(its hard to tell but he is holding a mini wooden bat just like dads)

-His favorite foods right now are watermelon, milk, bananas, mac & cheese, cheese, and smoothies.  We are still working on him taking smaller bites, because he always tries to stuff it all in at one time!

-Favorite toys are still balls, his bats, and golf clubs.  If he's not playing with a ball, then its trucks, puzzles, or play dough.  He also enjoys coloring, but only for short time periods. He loves to "hut hut" the football and kick the soccer ball.  He started this new thing where he holds the ball up and then kicks it when he drops it, like he's punting.  

-One of his new favorite things to do is fix things with daddy's tools - "I fix it".  Hopefully he'll be a handy man like his daddy one day!

-Every night when daddy's gets home Jude points to the tv and says "I watch" baseball or tennis .  They've also been knows to watch some golf.  Anything else on tv, forget about it!!!

-This kid has the best sense of direction.  He still faces backwards in his car seat, yet will start saying baseball game, golf ball game, or "we're home" way before we actually get to those things.  We're always impressed. 

-Every night after we read our books, we have prayer time.  We call them his prayer hands. You better hurry up the prayer though or Jude will start saying "amen"! We also ask him where Jesus lives and he'll say "in my hawt (heart)" and touches his heart.   

-When he likes something, he'll say "nice" super loud!

-I think we have nailed the hot=danger thing pretty well, because he will not touch something (food, water, etc) if he thinks it might be remotely hot.  

-He likes to help keen (clean), whether its wiping his mess or face, vacuuming, dusting, etc.

-We are starting to notice more and more that Jude seems to have some fear of heights.  We though it was just him being slightly cautious, which he can be at times, but now feel that it is true fear.  He'll start shaking or slightly whimpering.  I guess we'll see what happens with this over time. 

-This month we have also started climbing up and down the stairs by himself, brushing his teeth every night (mommy starts and baby finishes), & doing rolls (unfortunately his favorite spot to do these is on the bed, and not looking if he'll fall off or not). 

-He now has 6 front teeth on top, 2 top molars, 6 front teeth on the bottom, and 3 bottom molars.  

-Wears size 3 & 4 diapers

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

-Takes 2 naps most days, or one nap and one "rest" period in the afternoon.