Logan's last weigh in at doctor's for 18 month check up was so low they measured him twice to be sure! He grew in height but weight stayed the same as 15 months. I think it's likely caused by him been sick several times in the last few months. Hopefully will bounce back soon!
Logan's daily routine these days is to go to the Los Altos library in the morning with Wai-gong, fall asleep in the stroller on the way back (sometimes even on the way there). After his morning nap, nanny Sarah arrives and feeds him lunch. They also like to listen to music and sing songs together (“泥娃娃” is Logan's favorite right now). After playing in the house for bit, it's off to the park again to watch kids playing baseball (baseball season just started) and also play in the sand (“沙沙”). He often falls asleep on the way back from the park for a late afternoon nap. When I come home the first thing he asks for is usually “奶” (amazingly still going at 18 months). I don't think he's getting much these days but mostly for comfort and he way of asking for "mommy time".
Some other favorite activities:
- Watch garbage trucks (both real ones on garbage day and on YouTube)
- Bath time (likes to have a bath with Nathan, more fun)
- Dancing (especially during music time at the library. Maybe it's time to try Music Together class)
- Books ("Here Comes the Garbage Barge" was his favorite book for a long time. James recently learned the Chinese word for book “书” from Logan)
- Vacuum/sweep (We recently got a hand-me-down toy vacuum and Logan absolutely loves it)
- Talking up a storm. I am constantly surprised by how much Logan is able to communicate. I think he's picking a lot from the two older brothers. Both Nathan and Evan love to teach Logan. Just yesterday Evan was testing Logan "How do you say 'Elephant'", and surprisingly Logan managed to repeat after him. He's definitely transitioned from single syllable to multi-syllable words now, e.g., "daddy" instead of "dada". He's still calling me "mama" which I prefer to "mommy" :) He pronounces "Evan" really well now, but "Nathan" often sounds like "all done".
- Favorite foods: bread, strawberries, beans, nuts, pasta
Another exciting development is more teeth coming in. He has had 8 teeth for the longest time but in the last few weeks we 4 new ones on top and at least 2 on the bottom coming through... yay!
One recent challenge is it becoming increasingly hard to get Logan to eat a proper dinner. Sarah's trick is to give him a toy to play with but that doesn't always work for me. Letting him feed himself is a hit or miss since it could get really messy really fast.
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One method that's proven to work every time is to introduce some competition - have Evan or Nathan eat a couple of bites of Logan's food and Logan will immediately want to eat too. I took a cute video of Evan and Logan at the dinner table today (everybody else has eaten and these two were keeping each other company).
