{"id":3171,"date":"2016-05-23T20:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:18:58","slug":"18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=3171","title":{"rendered":"18 Months!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 17th Andrew officially celebrated his half birthday&#8230;again! Our little man is growing, changing and communicating more and more each day.\u00a0He&#8217;s really becoming his own person and it&#8217;s just an amazing blessing to have a front row seat for.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the run down on our Andrew William at 18 months; he wears size 2T clothes and weighs 26.4 lbs thus in the 80% for weight. He&#8217;s also 34 1\/2 inches long\u00a0and\u00a0in the 98% percentile! Andy is so proud. Apparently we&#8217;re growing &#8217;em big in New Jersey! Andrew is still an angel sleeper. He goes to bed around 7:30 pm with zero fuss- I mean<em> ZERO\u00a0<\/em>fuss- and sleeps through the night until about 6:30 am. He takes one 2-2.5 hour nap each afternoon. It&#8217;s fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>Andrew is a bit more picky about his food these days. Much to my dismay he pretty much refuses fruits and vegetables as is. Instead I blend all his veggies into juice just so he can get them down- yup he&#8217;s\u00a0<em>that<\/em> kid who drinks kale-spinach juice. He loves frozen broccoli bites, chicken nuggets, applesauce and fishies. He&#8217;s obsessed with Cheerios and cookies. I&#8217;ve also learned he loves french fries and ice cream as well as really every carb. I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;d be happy living on bread and cheerios if I let him.<\/p>\n<p>He still LOVES cars and trucks. You can usually find him roaming the house, with a car in-hand running it along the ground. He&#8217;s also a big fan of books and reading. His favorite right now is &#8216;Goodnight Digger&#8217; followed by it&#8217;s friends &#8216;Goodnight Tractor&#8217; and &#8216;Goodnight Pirate.&#8217; However, Andrew&#8217;s latest love is Mickey Mouse. He locks in- and by that I mean doesn&#8217;t blink- anytime Mickey is on. I&#8217;ve had to limit his &#8216;screen time&#8217; otherwise he&#8217;d just sit there and watch TV and eat Cheerios ALL DAY LONG. Andrew also loves being outside, particularly the swings and pushing his lawnmower around the driveway. Finally, he&#8217;s still obsessed with the Roomba or as he says &#8216;Oomba.&#8217; Each morning he pushes directly past\u00a0Andy and I to play with the Roomba.\u00a0It&#8217;s basically Andrew&#8217;s version of a pet&#8230;which is totally fine since you don&#8217;t need to feed it or take it out!<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change in the little guy is his speech and communication! He consistently uses sign language to express &#8216;more&#8217; and &#8216;done&#8217; when eating. He says mama, dada, Roomba (oomba), car, bus (buh), &#8216;oh wow&#8217;, ugh oh, juice (ju), bath (ba), bubble, Abby, and more. He can tell you that a cow goes &#8216;moo&#8217;, monkey goes &#8216;he he&#8217; and jaguar goes roar! It&#8217;s awesome to see how much he&#8217;s learning and understanding. My favorite though is when he blows kisses, &#8216;muh!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>You can see by my lengthy post that there is just so much for us to say and share about Andrew! He&#8217;s a lovable, happy and insanely cute little man! #incrediblyproudparents<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2742-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3175\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2742-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1697\" height=\"2418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2742-2.jpg 1697w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2742-2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2742-2-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_2742-2-719x1024.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1697px) 100vw, 1697px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 17th Andrew officially celebrated his half birthday&#8230;again! Our little man is growing, changing and communicating more and more each day.\u00a0He&#8217;s really becoming his own person and it&#8217;s just an amazing blessing to have a front row seat for. So here&#8217;s the run down on our Andrew William at 18 months; he wears size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}