Happy Valentine's Day...Jack is 18 months old!

Jack turned 18 months old today.  We headed to the doctor for a check-up and not surprisingly he is still huge!  He is 34.5 inches long and 31 lbs! That puts him in the 95% still.  He is a big (little) dude.  He is growing by leaps and bounds in other ways too!  He is singing lots of songs (words and all), he is stringing whole sentences together of 3 and 4 words, and he is just acting more like a little kid each day (where has my baby gone?).  When the doctor came in today Jack immediately said "Hi doctor!"  The doctor was surprised...he said "you shouldn't be putting two words together quite yet" and then when Jack was ready to be done he said "All done, Bye Bye Doctor.  Thank you!"  Jack also says "No thank you" and "yes please"  I love it!  He really wants to be like his big sister and he so he tries to say most things she does.  He and Isabella understand every word that each other says.  If I don't know something Isabella is right there to interpret for me.  They are really starting to play and act like siblings.  It is amazing the changes that have happened in just the last week.  At this rate...I wonder what age 2 will bring us.  He is adorable and we are enjoying every minute with him (well maybe not every minute).  With his cute talking also comes a lot of  screaming and "Mine! Mine!" and "No!!"  He is also teething.  He had the front four for the longest time and then suddenly got his molars and just in the last week he cut the two top canines.

Video of him saying "Bubble bath"


Please excuse Jack's messy face and the mouth full of food, but I just love this video.  Jack is singing Mr. Sun (which I did not recognize at the time), but I love that Isabella knows and Jack seems exasperated that I even had to ask:



So here was our Valentine's Day and Jack's half-birthday celebration.  Nick is still recovering from his flu so we didn't have any fancy plans for us.  I did pick us up breakfast sandwiches from McDonald's and I made orange sweet rolls for us all.  They each got a little Valentine treat and a Wonderpets coloring book with stickers.  They are both obsessed with Wonderpets lately.

After breakfast we headed to the doctor and did some fun Valentine's day treat shopping.  We went to AC Moore and picked up a couple crafts to paint and then headed to the Dollar Tree and got 2 balloons and a couple books and some little baby animals.  The kids were thrilled and it only cost me 7 dollars.  Then after dinner we sang "Happy half Birthday" to Jack and ate some cake.  I skipped making one because I didn't want that much cake hanging around the house for the next week.

Video of us singing and Jack saying "Happy Valentine's Day"  After watching this again I feel like it looks like I ignore little Isabella :).  It is just so hard to get video of Jack doing things because if I ask him to do something Isabella is always quick to jump in and do it for him.

Just realized I originally posted the wrong video here. This is them enjoying the treat!



This kid knows how to use his fork!