Major Taegen update

I haven't done an update on Taegen in a long time. I figured it was about time to write down the many cute things he does now.

18 Mo
-He's talking all the time. He started talking in July (15 mo old). Jon says Taegs waited until he left to start talking and doing all his new things.
-He says "Mommy, daddy, show, cars, more, ouwee, shoes, moo, quack, nose, toes, doggy, meow, beep beep, apple, night night, thank you, please, and then of course a whole bunch of jibberish. (I'm sure he says more, but thats all I can remember at the moment)
-He knows where his nose, tongue, ears, hair, eyes, chin, forehead, cheeks, toes and belly button are.
-He can tell you what a duck, cat, car, cow and sometimes a dog says
-He loves to be outside in the dirt or mud.
-He LOVES the movie Cars. He would watch it all day every day if I'd let him.
-He is moving non-stop. the only thing that will get him to sit still is if Cars is on. He has so much energy.
-He loves small dogs, especially my dads dog Bliss.
-He loves anything Elmo
-He really misses his daddy. Just yesterday he was asking/yelling for daddy randomly through-out the day. It just broke my heart to have to tell him that daddy wasn't here. (only 2 more months)
-He loves to dance
-He's in a hitting phase. I'm having a hard time getting him to listen to me when I tell him not to hit. He seems to think its funny.
-He still hasn't had his hair cut. It's just now getting to the point that I could cut it. It's just so blonde that you can barely see what is there.
-He loves Grandpa E.
-He prefers men to women (most times and this is only since we got back from visiting Jon). He even reached out and went to a complete stranger in the store the other day. Luckily I knew him so it wasn't scary.  Plus, when he sees other little kids with their dad he runs up to him wanting to be held :( Poor guy really misses his daddy!
-He started teething again for his 2 yr old molars. They didn't pop all the way out yet though. So looks like we've got a few months of lovely teething ahead of us. Ugh
-He's been going to nursery for a couple months now. the first few times he did really good, but now he cries almost the whole time.
-He loves eating ice.

we went on the carousel in down town stg. He liked it first, but was over it real quick.

 eating his favorite...ice

 yes that is mud in his hair. Berkley "washed his hair" with mud.

 all ready for church

 He loves all cars like this. Perfect example is the picture above of him in the hummer.

 Grandma E took him and Berkley to the park and he had so much fun on the swings

 Playing in the sand hill.

 this is what he looks like when he watches Cars. he literally tunes everything and everyone else out.

 We made tootsie rolls and jello on conference weekend.

 Thats an owl on the beanie...how cute right?!

 thats a salt shaker lid in his mouth

 We went to peach days with aunt Lexy and JoLee. The kiddos loved their sunglasses

 His mohawk is finally getting long

 Eating mac and cheese with a fork like a big boy. He made a HUGE mess, but loved it.

 We've been house/dog sitting for my dad and Becky while they went to NY. We had to take Bliss on walks and I quickly found out that the best and easiest way to do this was for me to push the stroller and let Taegs hold Bliss' leash. As you can see he thought that was really cool.