Ethan is 18+ months

I am a little behind on this one because I think Ethan is actually almost 20 months now!  

We attempted to send Ethan to nursery.  He is quite resistant and the first day was miserable.  We have been working on staying with him a little bit, but the moment he notices that we are gone he cries....until they come and get us!  However, today he went, cried for 25 minutes and then resigned himself to playing happily.  We will call it progress. 

His language has exploded!  I was wondering if he was just going to stop progressing because he said a few words and then stopped.  Now, if in the right mood, he will copy anything I say.  It is pretty funny.  A few of my favorites are batman, joker, animal, buckle, up, walk, tickle, pickle, and hot cocoa (chocolate milk). 

Ethan loves to play with cars and trains.  We have the geotrax set which he will play with for hours.  It is also the only movie he will watch.  He walks around saying chugga chugga all aboard with his hand in the air!

He has become quite particular about what he wears or doesn't wear.  He doesn't want to get dressed, but also doesn't want to get undressed.  He won't wear any summer shoes so we will see how that goes.  Then if he gets anything on his clothes he has to take them off instantly.  I made the mistake one day to take off his shirt so he could eat yogurt and he insisted that we take off all of his clothes.....

It is basically impossible to restrain the child except for in his car seat although I think he is close to wiggling out of that.  He climbs out of all carts, strollers and highchairs.  It makes for some fun times when I am trying to shop. We are very grateful that he has yet to figure out climbing out of the crib as he is an excellent sleeper.