Fifteen Months

Just like that. Some notes about life at fifteen months:

• The morning nap is officially dead. For a few solid weeks he was reliably taking a good morning and afternoon nap, which was pretty amazing. But then suddenly, one day, he just wouldn't do it. I'd put him down in the morning, and he'd spend an hour rolling around, sitting up, playing with his stuffed animals. Not crying, but definitely not sleeping. So, this week we scrapped the morning nap and shot for one afternoon nap, and it has gone surprisingly well. I had hoped the afternoon nap would get longer, and maybe it will, but for now it's about an hour long. Henry has a long troubled history with naps to begin with, so we feel like we are getting through this change pretty easily.
  
• He is very chatty. We have "conversations" (like the one in the video I posted) all day. He sits in his carseat and "reads" books to himself. He talks to the librarian, the cashier at the grocery store, and anyone I'm talking to. It's pretty cute, because he's very expressive. Not too many recognizable words yet, though. He does say "light" and point at the lights, and he says hot. He's kind of obsessed with things being hot.
  
• One molar is almost completely through, two are about halfway through, and one is still hiding.
  
• His new favorite breakfast is oatmeal (regular rolled oats or steel-cut oats) with frozen blueberries mixed in. And he loves sardines, which I share with him because they're good for us, even if they give me the willies a little bit.
  
• I don't know his weight/length yet, because I rescheduled his fifteen month check-up so that we could go to the zoo on the nicest day of the week. Bad mama, or best mama ever?
• He's really into leading us around by the hand right now, which is cute, if a little bossy.