Luke is 19 months old!

Today Luke turned 19 months old. He's really turning into quite a little person! Several friends from my moms' group at church suggested that I write down all the words he can say at some point, so here goes:

• Daddy
• Mommy
• Hailey ("Lee-lee")
• dog ("dah" or "DOOOOOOOH") like you would say "dough."  There's a long emphasis on the O.
• school ("coo")
• shoe ("sue" a very s sound on this)
• tree ("tee" with a point at a tree)
• night night ("ni-ni")
• bye
• hi
• ball ("bah")
• spoon ("spoo")
• car ("ca")
• sit (to the dogs)
• go
• me
• mine
• no (one of his favorites!)
• bath (more like "ba" but he says it in context)
• Grandpa ("pa-pa")
• Grandma ("na-ma")
• Nannie ("nah-nee")
• Robin ("Ba-ba"... we joke that she's Aunt Bob)
• Meme
• Amen ("A-bee"... always at the end of a prayer)
• Cold (Ko)

Many of these words have an up-swing in the sound.  Like Nah-nee will always end up higher in tone.  There are probably more that we're not quite recognizing yet, too! He also likes to sing in church when we sing hymns, even though he doesn't know all the words yet.

9 months old

At 9 months old, Luke can say "Da-da," and "ba-ba," though we're not sure what that means yet. He can pull himself up to standing (and does, often). Most mornings, we go in to find him standing up in his crib ready to greet the day. He's also getting pretty good at waving if someone waves at him first.

He has two bottom teeth now, and at his 9-month checkup his pediatrician said he has four top teeth on the way in. He weighed in at 17 lbs 3 oz and was 28 inches tall.

Luke's favorite things right now: he loves to eat cheese and Cheerios, but will generally try just about anything he can pick up by himself (chicken, chunks of vegetables, etc.). He likes to play peekaboo and run in circles on his exersaucer.

Luke is still pretty good at sitting through church, although he does like to try to make the people behind us laugh with his silly faces and smiles. He is starting to make noise during the hymns, like he wants to sing! He also likes to go places with us, like wineries (here he is at Georgetown Winery).