A lot of change!

Declan is now just about 15 months old. Boy has he changed since he was 9 months. He is now beginning to run around (he started walking at 12.5 months old). He has 6 teeth on the bottom and about 3 or 4 on top (he has his molars on the bottom in and one has come through on the top). He is still as happy as ever (unless he is sick). He seems to get sick every few weeks or so. We just get over one thing, and the next starts. We figure that he seems to get sick everytime that a tooth breaks through.

He is still sleeping well. He sleeps from 7 until 7. He still has his morning nap from about 8:30 until 10 and then 1 until 3. We've been so lucky with this. I know that a lot of it is because we've kind of just kept this routine going. There are times where he might be in bed for an hour before falling a sleep, but then he'll get back into sleeping the full lengths. Declan is really becoming quite a compassionate child. When he hits someone (by accident) he always says sorry by leaning over to give him/her a hug.

He loves making lots of different sounds, but has yet to really use many words. He can say ma, da, and he has said other words here and there, but he really doesn't say any of them regularly. He prefers to make sounds. He copies a lot of silly sounds that we make . . . wof, wof, (for dog), mmmm (for cow), mmm (for horse), he makes actions for words like strong, excited, happy, he sings, dances. He also is really beginning to follow instructions! This really amazes us. It really shows us how much he really knows even though he isn't saying these things. If we say, 'Time to change your diaper, lets go to your bedroom' he'll walk right over to his bedroom, no matter where in the house we are. He'll obey when we say 'come' or 'sit' or 'eat' or 'we're going to pray now', or 'put your diaper away (he wants to put it in the toilet). Declan has peed on his potty 3 or 4 times now! We just put him on his potty after every diaper change --- and he loves to just sit and read books. We've been successful a few times now!

He is just becoming such a humourous and fun loving kid! He has a great sense of humour which we just love. He likes to make people laugh. He is loving to explore all over the house. He'll climb on chairs now and reach up on tables. He is also beginning to play a little more with toys. He'll make car sounds when he plays with cars. He just loves walking around the house carrying toys spoons and anything with a handle. Just lately he is into shutting all of the doors. You can tell he thinks he is helping out by doing that.

We just love him so much. We've had a few breaks from him in the past little while. We both get to the point where we just need a break from the daily grind of feeding, changing, putting him to bed, and keeping him from doing things he shouldn't be doing. Luckily we have a big break from him after 7 when he is in bed, however then we are kind of stuck at home. When he was in his car seat we were able to bring him around where ever and when ever. It is a little different now that he doesn't really sleep in his stroller that well.

I'm going to upload a few pictures from the past few months.