Crew Tanner is almost 19 months old and growing like crazy. His personality is more than my heart can handle sometimes. Each month I think about how precious and cute he is and how this has to be my favorite age.. then another month comes along and he becomes even sweeter and more precious! Our kid has such a great heart! He is constantly giving hugs and kisses and adores helping! We are having to teach him that you don't have to clean up others' messes because this kid would pick up every piece of trash if we let him. I am so proud to be him mom. His vocabulary is insane and we say about two new words a day. He knows his colors and learning numbers right now! His favorite is 8! He loves to identify objects. Especially hot and cold things! He is so dang smart! He follows instructions like a champ and rarely needs us to repeat two step instructions. On vacation he grew 5 new teeth! He handled them so well. He is starting to say please and thank you without us telling him to which makes my heart so happy. He is so independent that when he asks for help to do something I'm extra excited to help haha. He loves his water toys, driving his corvette, and dancing! He is equally a mommy boy and daddy's boy! He doesn't just want to hold on of our hands.. he wants to hold both which is heart bursting. I could go on and on! He throws a fit every now and then but his amazing moments make those testing moments beyond worth it! :)
Oh sweet little Crew was dedicated to the Lord this past Sunday. What an incredible day! I am so glad that we waited until he was a little older. His church teachers prepared him perfectly for this day! It was incredible to stand before our church family, family, and friends while we declared our dedication to raise Crew in faith and awareness of the indescribable love God has for us. At one point everyone who came for Crew was asked to stand as he was prayed over, the amount of people who stood for our little boy made me tear up. He is so loved. After church we went to our favorite mexican food place for lunch with family and spent the rest of the night with church friends. This life God has created for my family of three is sometimes too much to take in.. this is my life?! Wow! Thankful!! :) Pictures of Dedication Day and from days surrounding below. A few more weeks until SUMMER! :)
Oh how my baby boy has grown since I last updated! I cannot help but think he is the most handsome little boy! He just turned 17 months old!! Time has flown by! This little boy keeps me on cloud 9 and I couldn't love him more. He is so dang smart and so very sweet. I can't wait to spend the summer with him and his daddy.
His current favorites : acting out pages of books, kisses, working out with mommy, going for walks, birds, going down the slide, LEARNING (he loves school time at home!) , coloring, cleaning (this kid has OCD and loves to clean!), helping with the laundry, singing and dancing, antique airplanes (SO excited to plan his 2nd birthday!!!) , Floogals, Detective Noddy, bubbles, grocery shopping, and laughing.
Favorite Words: His vocabulary has blown up these past few weeks! I love hearing his little voice say "I love ya!" It makes my heart swell every single time. I can't remember all his words to list but he does have favorites! He loves to say baboon, see ya, thank you, please, bye, gorilla, and yeah allllll day. He is such a good problem solver and I love watching his solve a problem on his own! He is definitely Mr. Independent. He is so smart already...I can't wait to see his education explode when he beings preschool in the Fall! :)
He is always such a happy boy and is always so sweet! We can never get through a meal without someone coming up to talk with him or tell us how well behaved he is! SO blessed! Soaking it all in.. because one day he will become his mommy! ;)