Crosby at 15 months

Crosby is now 15 months old (yesterday). He's doing so many cute things and is always happy and sweet. He's saying "Momma, Dadda, Bobo, uh-oh, ball", he's waving bye, he tries to comb his hair with his comb, he loves to brush his teeth, he opens books and looks at them, he dances to music, he loves to roll a ball back and forth and squeals and laughs when we play keep-away from him (we let him get it and take it from one person to another and we yell, "touchdown!").

I recently discovered that he loves watermelon--he stuffs it in his mouth as fast as he possibly can! He's doing great with the sippy cup, and I found out earlier this week that he can drink from a straw because I saw him pick up Rhett's cup and drink from it.

He still sleeps with his football lovie and sucks his thumb when he's tired. I hold him on my shoulder and sing "Jesus Loves Me" before every nap and nightly bedtime. It's one of my favorite things to have him rest his head on my shoulder and put his little soft arm around my neck. He's at the point where some days it's hard to get him to take two naps, but he's still tired around 9 a.m. and will usually fall right asleep then if I put him down. But then sometimes he goes to sleep again in the afternoon and sometimes he doesn't. If he doesn't take a second nap he's exhausted by 5 p.m.. I'd like for him to go to one nap, but I remember that transition being a little bit tough for both Rhett and Alexee.

He is wearing 24 month clothes and a size 6 diaper. I'm not sure how much he weighs--he goes for his 15 month check-up the week after the 4th. I think he probably weighs around 27-28 lbs.?

I guess he's more of a toddler than a baby now, but I want to just keep calling him a baby. And that will probably never change. :) Now that he can walk, he wants to try to do everything that Rhett & Alexee do. These pictures were made yesterday at R's school playground. R & A asked if we could go there to play, so I took them, but wow it was hot. Their faces were all bright red after being there 5 minutes.

We love you sweet boy!_________________________

When we first got to the playground, R said, "I miss being at this school." He saw this dirt pile and said, "Joshua and Christopher used to work on this dirt pile every single day at recess".

He just kept making comments about memories he had of the school year on this playground. He saw some big rocks stacked up and said, "Kyle and Grant stacked those rocks--they played there all the time." He says he's glad it's summer, and I think he is enjoying the time off, but I also think he will be excited to start a new school year with friends this fall.

our FIRST GRADER

Alexee carried this baby doll around all over the playground. She's recently taken an interest in dolls.

Letting her baby doll slide

She said she was in a cave, hiding from bears.

Rhett said this is where he and his friends played Rock Store. The kids decided to sell rocks yesterday, but I couldn't buy any because they were $1 million per rock. Rhett said he'd give me the family & friend discount: 4 rocks for $2 million.
Crosby was getting so hot and tired by this point. He wanted to go home (and so did I).

Alexee and Crosby were both worn out and took good naps. Rhett looked at a Highlights magazine and watched Scooby Doo. Later they went out in the back yard and turned on the sprinkler and found a turtle. R warned A several times not to let it bite her because this was the kind that wouldn't let go until it thundered if it bit you! I told him I could paint a name on his shell so that we'd know it was him if we saw it again later, and they wanted to name him Max (the same name as their cousins' little goat). So I painted "Max" on his shell with nail polish and then they let him go by the fence.