16 months old!

Joaquin is 16 months old this month. I get these developmental emails and this month's said something like, "Where did your baby go? You have a full fledged toddler on your hands these days!" and they are right. When he turned 1 and those emails changed from "Your baby" to "Your Toddler" that seemed really wrong...he was still very much a baby. But now he really is a toddler running all around the house, talking away, and having his own opinions on things.

He said thank you the other day without prompting, that was a proud moment! He is very interested in brushing his teeth. He has been watching us for awhile and imitating the sound of our electric toothbrush, but didn't like it when we tried to do his teeth, so this is a good step!

What started as coming over and putting his head on us has evolved into also taking pillows and putting them down to put his head on--very cute. He's also much more interested in figuring out how things work than playing with toys. So he had a music box the other day and he wanted to figure out how to get the horse off, that was much more important than playing with the box. He also likes to drum on everything. It's great fun to see what kind of sounds things make!