18 months

Emmory is a year and a half, and that is the age he will be when his baby brother is born! Hard to believe that time is already here, but I am due in one week! I was very excited at my last doctors visit last week because I am 2 cm dilated....the reason this excites me is because 1) I never had any dilation with E before I went into labor, and i was late with him, and 2) When I got to the hospital in labor with E I was only 3cm dilated, and that was after having contractions for almost 12 hours, so I'm hoping this will cut out a few hours of labor anyways.
E had his 18 month checkup today, we moved it up so we could get it in before the baby is born, and also wanted to have his ears checked since he'd been sick a week or so ago, so we thought we would kill two birds with one stone. Thankfully his ears looked good, I am hoping he is moving out of the stage of getting constant ear infections. He is a big growing boy, 97th percentile for height and 90th for weight. We already knew this, as he is as big or bigger than many kids that are older than him. He's still a good eater and has a good appetite most of the time, although sometimes I think he would rather get down and play rather than eat. There are three things that Emmory is really crazy about right now, the vacuum, the moon, and tractors (which is really any vehicle that makes loud noise in his mind). He says those three words most frequently, and when we are home he is constantly begging me to vacuum (I guess he realizes how dirty our house is, haha). It is nice because I can always get that chore done really easily when he is awake. He will just run back and forth to the vacuum and away from it while I use it, pointing and saying "vacuum".  About a month and a half or so ago he discovered the moon. He walked outside, and just stood staring and pointing at something in the sky. We realized he was looking at the moon, and told him what it was and he started saying it right away, which is amazing because he doesn't use a lot of words. That is when we realized he has the ability to talk, but only bothers saying the words that mean a lot to him. Now we always look for the moon outside, and he loves reading his "Goodnight Moon" book because of the pictures of the moon. He also realized his love for loud noise-making vehicles about a month or so ago. We were at the park, and there were some construction vehicles working there. Emmory grabbed my hand and led me away from the playground over to where the vehicles were working, and just stared at them for probably at least 20 minutes. Also at that same playground a lot of big trucks go driving by, and he was always fascinated when they did, and learned the word truck. Then about a week ago we were at a harvest party where they were doing tractor pulled hayrides, and of course he loved to watch the tractor, and we taught him the word tractor which he caught onto right away, and the whole ride home he kept repeating it over and over again, it was so funny. However now he calls any truck or vehicle a tractor. This boy loves anything that makes noise!

Here's a video of him from earlier this month. He thought of this game all by himself. You will notice his bad habit of not looking where he is running.