A Baby Still, Barely

John has reached the 15 month mark this week. We are amazed how fast this happened! He took a few steps the other day, motivated by electronic devices. Other than those, he really doesn't care to walk just yet. He really prefers to climb instead. He can be found on the top of the couch, the tables, Amelia's big bed, the big plastic pickup truck in our living room, or up the ladder/slide on the playset. He keeps us on our toes, just as his siblings did. He has a wide range of grunts, squeals and screams, and a few things that sound like words. Amelia is attentive to his every need, so maybe once she's in school, he'll start talking more. Well, with her out of the picture, there might actually be quiet airtime so he CAN talk..

He's really a happy, smiling, most-of-the-time mellow boy. He knows that bibs go around his neck to catch his teething drool, and that all things with buttons are used as cell phones. He was about to drop his morning nap, but got a cold that put him right back into the 2 naps/day routine. He tolerates a nebulizer nightly, and more frequently when he has a cough. He was actually chewing on the tubing of it during Thomas' dance video, so now we know who to blame for it breaking!

John enjoys eating with a fork as well as his hands, and he really enjoyed having corn on the cob like the big kids this week. We're still (per dr's orders) feeding him a jar of food daily to try to get more calories in him as well as mixing a supplement (pediasure) into his whole milk. At his last weigh in, he was in the 95th %ile for height and 15th for weight. For Thomas's sake, I was trying to find skinny elastic waist pants, but since they are both proving to be extremely long and skinny, I see our future will include all the "slim" pants we can find. Unfortunately, they make them starting in size 4, and that's a year away for Thomas and several years for John. All the pants I pinched and sewed the waistband up for Thomas will be great for John this winter! I hope we have enough as he went through 4 changes of clothes yesterday, not including pajamas.

These pictures of John were from the Duke football game we attended with Papa and Grandma last week. It is Allen's first real semester of retirement, so John made it a point to share his favorite gesture with Papa.