Kellen is 18 Months Old!

18 Months!  1.5 Years!  I just cannot believe it.  He is becoming less and less a baby and more and more a big boy every week and it makes me feel both proud and sad!

Look at how much he has grown!  1 week, 1 year and 18 months!

 

He loves books, balls, cars and snacks the most!  He is an excellent climber!  He’s got a great arm on him, definitely a leftie.  He just got his 10th tooth, another molar, and these molars are painful and coming in painfully slow!  He loves sitting in your lap and he isn’t fond of anyone else sitting in your lap.  As far as he is concerned, it is HIS lap.  He loves giving kisses and hugs.  He loves to hang from the bars at the playground and in toddlercize.

He can kind of say Riley, though it sounds more like Lila.  And he hasn’t tried Finn yet but he did say “big brother” the other day instead and I thought Finn was going to spontaneously combust he was so excited!  He was so excited he even made sure to tell daddy later that night.

If I say “noses” to him, he rubs his nose against mine and gives me Eskimo kisses.  I love this more than I can ever express.

Funny story….I sent Todd a side by side picture of the above picture of Kellen at 12mos and 18mos.  He replied back “wow, same smile”.  And it took me a minute, but I replied back and said “um, you know that is the same kid in both pictures, right?”  No, no he did not.  But his response is even funnier because then he told me that he thought the 12 mos picture was Riley.  Now if he would have said Finn, I could have given him the benefit of the doubt because Finn and Kellen look so much alike.  But Riley?  No.  LOL!

We got a new nurse in with us today for the check-up, and she was tasked with getting the measurements while the other nurse asked us the check-list of questions.  So after we measure and weigh him, the new nurse hands me the sheet with the measurements and the percentiles.  And I immediately look at it and notice that the height percentile was at 60%.  While I do not at all remember what the weight or height or percentile of my children are, I did know that it wasn’t that low.  So the other nurse re-measured him and sure enough, the first measurement was off by an inch (and now that I have the growth chart in front of me would have meant he shrunk!)!

Kellen’s Growth Chart

Age	Weight	%	Height	%	Head	%
Birth	8lbs 8oz		21”
5 Days	8lbs		21”
1 Month	11lbs 9.5oz	90th	22.875”	95th	15.25”	90th
2 Months	14lbs 6.5oz	90th	24.5”	95th	16”	90th
4 Months	16lbs 10oz	85th	26”	85th	16.625”	75th
6 Months	18lbs 8oz	75th	27”	75th	17.25”	75th
9 Months	21lbs 7oz	80th	29”	80th	17.75”	50th
12 Months	23lbs 14oz	86th	31.25”	93rd	18.25”	60th
15 Months	26lbs	88th	32.88”	95th	18.5”	55th
18 Months	26lbs 8oz	80th	33.75”	90th	19”	75th