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18 things I want to remember about Madden at 18 months:

1. He loves to be read to. We visit the library weekly and read about 30 books on a daily basis. No exaggeration.

2. He is obsessed with trains, cars and dinosaurs.

3. He has to sleep with two blankies, one in each hand pressed up against each cheek.

4. He is never happier or more hyper than when Daddy comes home every night.

5. His favorite snack is dill pickle spears. He calls them "tickles" and he would eat them for 3 meals a day if I let him.

6. He prefers milk. And he calls his sippy his "pissy", reversing the "p" and the "s".

7. His favorite show is Disney Channel's "Chuggington".

8. He laughs hysterically every time he farts (I blame Randy for this one).

9. He likes to play with my hair when I sit down in front of the mirror to do my hair or make up and says "pretty...pretty..." while stroking my hair (Randy blames me for this one).

10. He hates having messy hands and freaks out if something sticky is on his hands and he can't get it off.

11. He is officially down from 2 naps a day to 1 nap a day (damnit).

12. He makes the funniest face ever when you ask him what a bunny says as he attempts to wiggle his nose.

13. I've tried to catch #12 on video but can't because anytime I point the video camera (or any camera) at him he ignores what I ask him to do or say and just sticks his face in the camera and says "Cheeeeeeeese!!!!!"

14. He HATES going to the doctor. And because of his fear of the doctor will freak out when he even sees Randy's stethoscope. Like literally screams his face off if he sees a stethoscope.

15. Whenever anyone tells him "no" or takes something from him, he runs to the nearest adult and starts jibber jabbering away angrily, as if to tattle on the person who just took something from him.

16. He tries to tickle me anytime he sees my bare skin showing...if I bend over to get something and a teeny tiny patch of bare skin shows, he runs over to tickle me saying "ticka-ticka-ticka-ticka".

17. He thinks throwing rocks and poking sticks in the dirt is the funnest thing ever.

18. When he says "oopsie" he reverses the "p" and the "oo" sounds...and it kinda sounds like a very naughty word. But it makes me laugh every time he says it.