20 months old

We now have a 20-month-old on our hands! Here are some random updates on Sweet Sir Isaac:

• When asked, Isaac can identify his head, hair, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, tongue, belly, toes, knees, legs and hands.  
• He will snort when you ask, "What sound does a _________ make?" (he will snort no matter what animal name you insert!).
• Pretty  much any round fruit or vegetable is an "apple" (which Isaac pronounces "ahhhhhp-um")
• At bedtime, he has an endless supply of kisses, waves, and giggles and says "night-night Dadda" when Daddy comes in to say goodnight. 
• While incredibly sweet most of the time, Isaac has definitely been testing limits and making his displeasure known.  He shakes his head no while waving his hands dismissively if we start singing a song he doesn't care to hear at that moment, or offer him something he does not want to eat.  
• Isaac spends Tuesdays and Fridays at Aunt Margie's and Wednesdays at Sandy's, all three of those days with Declan.  He's always excited to run to their gate/door in the morning, and is sad to leave every afternoon. 
• He is still breastfed in the morning, and before bed and naps, per the World Health Organization's recommendation of breastfeeding until at least 2 years of age. 
• He recently started nodding his head yes, which he finds to be very funny for some reason.
• He is getting better with coming down the stairs on his own, However, he is inconsistent with his method which makes Mommy nervous.
• Isaac goes down for bed very easily and does sleep in his crib until at least 5 or 6am most nights. With few surprising exceptions, he is down to one nap a day which lasts anywhere from 45 minutes to almost 4 hours.  Talk about inconsistent and hard to make plans!
• While he still doesn't have a huge collection of clear verbal words, he definitely understands a LOT, and often surprises us.  One night after dinner, Isaac picked up a smushed pea from the floor.  For some reason Mommy asked him to go put it in the trashcan, with absolutely no expectation that he actually would. Isaac walked all the way around the counter and into the kitchen, opened the trashcan, and threw the pea away!
• And while his list of verbal words is limited, it is growing, albeit a bit selective. There are some words we're surprised we haven't heard yet, like dog, or cup (however he will point to these things). But he does say hobbit, airplane, helicopter, avocado, yummy, water, book, eat, banana, and uh-huh, among others. He will also attempt to say most words we ask him to, even if it does just sound like jibberish.
• The hashtag Sweet Sir Isaac seems to have stuck, as people old and young often ask, "How is [Sweet] Sir Isaac?". It's rare to have people ask about him without at least a Sweet or a Sir in front of his name, which Mommy thinks is pretty funny.  

Mr. Personality made it very clear he was not impressed with the yummy scallop dinner Mommy made for dinner earlier this week.  After crying at it in disgust, he then dumped his nicely-arranged plate over and made a mess with the food on his tray, giving Mommy a very firm, "I am not eating this" glare. 

Dinner the next night was more successful in terms of consumption, but even worse in terms of clean up as we gave Isaac full reign with his spoon practice.

While Mommy was getting dinner ready, Isaac moved his learning tower to the cupboard while saying "yummy, yummy, yummy". He then helped himself to "snacks". This isn't quite what we had in mind when we made this for him.  

pretending to relax in the sunroom