Offspring Update

Raegan at 5 years old:

• finished preschool and can: write her first and last name without help, recite our phone number, cut, paste, etc.
• weighs 35 pounds. 
• is 42 inches tall (75th percentile) 
• is into Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter version) and Superman, Frozen, and sometimes Harry Potter and Mary Poppins makes an appearance.
• wants to start reading "books with no pictures, just interesting words." 
• wears a size 11.5/12 shoe.
• loves Wyatt and wants him to stay a baby forever and live with us until he's 20. She frequently tells us she wants to live with us forever but doesn't want us to get older and turn into grandparents. 
• asks a lot of questions about why people are different. 
• has very specific opinions about her clothes and shoes.
• recognizes words she doesn't know and asks what they mean.
• wants us to tell stories all the day long. 
• hijacks my phone and takes 40 pictures of her shoes. 
• wants to be a doctor, investigator, and an artist. 
• loves to write and draw, and her drawings are becoming much more detailed. 
• likes to have lemonade stands and has made quite a bit from kind neighbors. 
• is so excited about Kindergarten after not wanting to go. 
• likes to listen to Veggietales songs, Despicable Me soundtrack, and Frozen soundtrack. 

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Wyatt at 18 months:

• weighs 28 pounds.
• has 16 teeth.
• takes one nap midday for 2 - 2.5 hours.
• sleeps all night.
• wears size 6 shoes.
• is on track to be 6'2". 
• is a good eater. His favorites are oatmeal, bananas, soft granola bars, watermelon, cantaloup, soup, chicken, fries, goldfish, and yogurt.
• likes to wrap blankets around his shoulders and head like a cape/bonnet.
• wants to drink everyone else's water.
• new words: "ack" (snack), "off", "eff" (his elephant lovey), "pees" (please), poop, "ahju" (hold you, hold me, could also mean achoo, hurt you, or let's sing Hey Jude), row row (row your boat), "ash" (splash, take a bath), "hot" (sometimes sounds more like haaaawt), "zah" (pizza, like Michael Scott from "The Office"), "ish" (gold fish), "keek" (squeak, the squeegee in our shower), "sssssstoop" (soup), "hush" (from Goodnight Moon), "hayel" (Hale), "moan" (moon), "H" (orange), "chee" (tree), "cah" (car), "apple"
• loves to chase and tickle.
• hits his head on things when he's mad. I thought we had moved past it, but it's back. He knows he shouldn't do it and can stop himself when he wants to. It's always been a comforting thing for him to hit his head on his mattress since we was 5 or 6 months old. It became his soothing mechanism for putting himself to sleep. Now we really have to watch him when he gets mad over not getting his way because he will try to hit his head on the floor, a cabinet, the dishwasher, etc. :/ 
• is obsessed with Goodnight Moon. He runs around looking for it, saying "book" or "hush." 
• brings me the bag of tortilla chips or veggie straws at random times and says "pees." 
• likes to wear sunglasses.
• loves being outside. He gets mad when I say we need to go and we don't go immediately. He stands at the back door and yells. 
• loves to rock in the recliner and on the couch. He doesn't usually let us rock him in the chair, though. 
• likes to wear Raegan's shoes around the house.
• hates being changed and runs away. 
• is getting much better with his manners. He used to yell at us for everything, like a crazy purple minion. Now he says "pees" but his limit is 3 times of asking, and if we don't react right away it's "Pees. Pees. Pees! Baaahhhh!!"