Bubble blowing

I'm not sure when he learned this, but Julia said he has been doing it for a little bit.  Stanley figured out how to blow bubbles into a glass of water and make funny noises.  He was pretty amused with it.  I also found it pretty funny, but I'm curious when he discovers that using milk is much more effective...

What you get when flounder does your hair

Go broncos

Stanley got a great present from his great uncle Mike. A baby sized Denver Broncos Payton Manning jersey. I think it looks rather dashing.

GO BRONCOS!

Applause

Stanley loves applause.  We clap for him and cheer him on whenever he does something good, like going down the stairs and not killing himself.  The other night at Lolo and Papa Doug's we had a whole bunch of guests over for dinner and Stanley was very busy training all the adults how to give him applause.  He was quite pleased with himself and it got to the point where he could just pick up a ball, put it down and look up and they would give him applause.  It felt a little bit like those TV show filming sessions where they have the "APPLAUSE" sign that lights up when the audience is supposed to clap.  Only here, Stanley was his own light board.

Obese to underfed

If you remember, Stanley was considered obese when he was an infant. Not anymore. We spent a doctor's visit yesterday discussing how to get more calories into our little boy. Since Stanley's 12 month visit his weight has really hit a plateau. At 12 months he was 22 lbs 7 oz and at 15.75 month he is 22lbs and 9 oz. That is a total of a 2 oz increase.

We had to go in for a new weight gain because at 15 months, right after Stanley's stomach bug, Stanley weight 21 lbs and 14 oz.

Stanley loves fruit, but Lolo is going to push on eggs, protein, and almond butters for our little guy. Geoff is trying to trick Stanley into eating fattier foods, but Stanley has him pegged. After 3 or 4 times of getting tricked, Stanley is onto his uncle's antics.

Lucky Boy

Lolo and Papa Doug have been here for 3 weeks and Stanley has loved it! He is going to be very sad tomorrow when they leave--I think our next post might have to be named, 'Sad Boy' or 'Spoiled Boy'.

At the Cal Ac of Sciences

With grandparents around for so long, Stanley has really developed. His sentences are coming together--granted the words are just gibberish, but he creates sentences of different sounds. His walking or should I say running has also improved. With Lolo, Stanley has been walking all over the town. Stanley walked all the way to the post office; that is 0.6miles and includes a hill for part of it. Lolo has lots of patience. Stanley loves to walk, but his little legs just cannot take big steps so he is not very fast. Plus, he stops and enjoys looking at little pebbles, twigs, and sticks. Stanley love to walk with Lolo so much, that now if Lolo says 'let's go on a walk', Stanley will run over and grab her finger to go on his walk. Just as an aside, Stanley doesn't need to hold a hand, but we are always trying to hold his hand when we walk on the side walks around town--it seems a bit safer.

Also, Stanley has started understanding lots more lately. For example, if I say "Stanley where the light" he will point up to the ceiling to the light. We can also give him things and ask him to take it to somebody, but I'm not sure he knows who is who. Also, we are instituting a policy that pencils stay on the table, Stanley understands when we say 'put the pencil on the table'. This is all thanks to Steve's patience while Stanley screamed for an entire night about wanted to run around the house with pencils in his hand.

Stanley has also decided to go along with Papa Doug's idea that walking is just too slow. Stanley wants to run everywhere. He is quite good at running and very stable, except he has a nice big bump on his head after he tripped over the edge of the carpet and hit his forehead on a marble stair. It wasn't good; the doctor evaluated him and said he got lucky and we should probably move the carpet away from the staircase.

We have also gone on many fun adventures with Lolo and Papa Doug. Here are some pictures of our adventures.

Sous Chef

Uncle Flounder finally found some local crabs for us to eat last night. Stanley enjoyed being his sous chef with the lemons and limes.

Below are a few photos of when we were at the water earlier this week. More to come. Stanley enjoyed looking at the water.