Jack @ 22 months

Such a big boy… almost 2 years old! Jack has finally made the switch to 1 nap a day. I never dreamed this transition would have taken so long. I keep struggling to find the magic sleep formula that will help him to sleep later in the morning and take longer naps, but it eludes me. People talk about their kids taking 3 hour naps every day when they were his age, and I try hard not to be envious.
He makes frequent and repeated use of the word no, of course. We’ve been working to teach him to say “no ma’am” or “no sir”, and he does it a lot of the time. Let me tell you, “no ma’am” is MUCH easier to listen to over and over than just “NO, NO, NO!”

His favorite phrase (besides no! no! no!) is “see ya later, alligator” – or as he puts it, “slay gator”. He loves to visit RBC and run around the halls and play with the water fountain. He wonders every time we get in the car if we’re going to see the church, and he shouts “CHURCH!” every time we pass it. Recently we were there as Mommaw was finishing work, and I let him wander around a little by himself through the hallways. Suddenly, we heard him crying from somewhere in the distance, and followed the sound to round the corner and see him standing in the middle of the hall looking very distressed. He was happy to see us… he’d gotten lost after he rounded that last corner and didn’t know how to get back! As he followed us back around to more familiar territory he said with relief, “Now…. church!” So funny!