19 Months - No Way!

19 Months is in some ways a blah uncelebrated birthday. You start the slide down to 2 years and a lot of families start thinking about baby #2 as you are starting to not look or act so babyish any more. Your baby fat is almost all gone, your walking is awesome, even running.

In Miles' case add to the accomplishments of 19 months that he can actually jump now. He leaves the earth with ease and regularity. And is taking jumping to new levels, trying to jump out of highchairs and off of toys.

Talking has picked up some but and his big accomplishment is a short but heartfelt 2 word sentence that is used all the time all day long - No way! Sometimes it's a sweet no way and other times it's a no way that comes from the depths of his soul it's intonations conveying that he will probably stop breathing if made to comply with whatever it is he's responding no way to.

Sometimes I don't know why something will upset him so dramatically. A simple "Do you want some applesauce?" can produce a most pitifully tearful "No Way!". My guess is that because he can't speak yet he gets really frustrated when I offer something he wasn't thinking of.

This month it's finally gotten hot out here and so going for walks and hikes have mostly stopped. We went to Mandalay Bay to the Shark Aquarium with his friend Liam and he was a little scared of the big sharks swimming by. We saw Nicole Richie there with her husband and kid. She's small, like the size of a 9 year old small.

We also went to the Secret Garden at the Mirage and saw the dolphins and a couple gay white lions dry humping.

During the day Miles spends a good bit of time just hanging out in the back yard with Bella playing and on this day he ended up naked in his pool.

See the picture of a ton of pacifiers in a dirty corner...what's that you wonder? Well we were cleaning the house one day and it was time for his nap and we couldn't find any pacifiers anywhere and he totally needs one to go to sleep. Searched high and low, not one. I actually left and went to the grocery store and bought a couple new ones so he could take his nap. A few days later Norris, desperate again for a pacifier thought he would actually move our massive and heavy bed as he saw one behind the headboard. Well there's a storage space under our bed and he lifted the bed part up to try to reach behind the headboard without moving the bed and lo and behold, our little squirrel was stashing pacifiers down a hole on the side of the bed.

And finally as you have already noticed he got his first professional haircut this month. The hair was getting way to shaggy and I didn't have the heart to give him the low cut he really needed for the summer. The pics are on my iphone and if I can get them off I will post them soon as they are quite a dramatic before and after.