ONE POINT FIVE

Here I am celebrating the 12^th day of the month again for my little man. It’s been quite a while, but as you all know I stopped celebrating “month birthdays” when Luca turned the big old UNO. However, in toddler years I feel like one and a half is quite the milestone. And after doing month updates every month for the first year, waiting until TWO to update again seemed like way to long. So if you care to know all about my little dude at one point five years continue reading below….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Per usual, these past 6 months flew by at lightning speed. We’ve had our ups and downs but looking back it’s been mostly ups. Luca has turned into quite the little boy. And if I had to describe him in two words it would be just that ALL BOY! He doesn’t walk, he runs. He sits, but only for about 5 seconds at a time. He can jump across a room faster than I can walk. He loves cars, trains, playing outside, and throwing any object he can get his hands on across a room. This kid has an arm! Give him a ball and he will be entertained for a whole 10 minutes! He can already kick a soccer ball like a pro. He is a monkey and climbs on anything and everything. But to my surprise I am still waiting for the day to come when he climbs out of his crib. How on earth that day hasn’t arrived is beyond me. But every morning that he wakes up and cries for me to come get him out of his crib I’m singing a little hallelujah in my head.

Luca is a boy of few words. Not much talking going on here yet. He’ll repeat a word here and there, but he mostly just utters nonsense and when he gets on a roll there’s no stopping those adorable babbles. The way he does it is just so stinking cute, and I wish I could understand what was going on in that little brain of his. I’m hoping that day comes soon!

Moana and Elsa are his best friends and mine. For how active Luca is, he will actually sit and watch a movie which is heaven for me at times. (No judging please!) He has even figured out how to take a movie out of the case, turn on the playstation and put the dvd in! This. I am not so proud of. And don’t worry, he gets a firm “No” anytime it happens.

At one and a half some of Luca’s favorite pastimes include… Baths, climbing stairs, playing outside, playing fetch with Elsie, marveling at ceiling fans, reading stories but flipping through the pages faster than I can read them, and building towers with his giant legos.

He loves yogurt, ice cream, bananas, any form of berry, mac and cheese, and Panera bagels. Other than taco meat he is legit a vegetarian. It’s been a real struggle trying to get him to eat meat. He still has a bottle of whole milk when he wakes up and before he goes to bed.

Luca weighs approximately 31 pounds and is wearing pretty much all size 2T clothes. He’s always been a little chunker, but he’s slowly losing the baby pudge and looking more and more like a real toddler.

He is becoming more and more of an extrovert, which I would not have expected early on since we had so much trouble with separation anxiety! But anymore he waves at random people in the grocery store, claps for anyone who makes eye contact with him, and babbles to anyone who will listen. I drop him off at nursery and he literally runs through the door and immediately waves goodbye to me. Most days I pick him up and I barely get a hello… of course my mama heart misses him needing and wanting me like he did when he was a baby, but to be honest, I’m loving his little independent spirit. I’ve loved watching him grow from such a shy mama’s boy baby into a friendly, independent toddler. It was quite the journey, but so worth those struggles early on.

At one and a half, Luca is energetic, rambunctious, generous, curious, silly and loving. He gives me hugs and kisses without prompting and at the end of every day, no matter how crazy he was, he is always super snuggly. Another quality that I love about him and honestly already admire is how no matter what Luca does, he gives it his all, wholeheartedly, without hesitation. He is already such a strong little boy in every sense of the word. And I am so blessed to call him mine.

 

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Luca's Romper is from Childhood's Clothing and can be found here.

Luca's shoes are from Adelisa and Co and can be found here.