Maxwell at 3 Years

Weight: 30 lbs. 4 oz. (50th percentile)
Height: 37.4" (50th percentile)
Clothing size- 3T
Shoe size- 9

My favorite words:
bus- buhsh
yellow- lello

ice- eyesh
cup- bup
water- wah wah
water bottle- wah bow
rainbow- bay boh
train track- rain atch
Mickey- Mih-me
witch- itch
boot- boop

playground- pay nown
And my favorite word- he calls himself Match

He was in speech therapy for a year, but finally caught up to where he's supposed to be. He has a large vocabulary (I stopped keeping track of words he knows at about 2 1/2) and he consistently talks in three- and four-word sentences. He also asks questions and can almost always use his words to say what he is trying to communicate. 

He loves counting. Counting to 10= none, doo, ree, four, i, itch, eigh, nine, en. He always skips 7. He counts all the time and sometimes gets it right, but if we're counting he might point to the same items multiple times and skip other items, but he's getting the point that you point to items and count.

He's ALWAYS tattling. "JJ do it!" "Mimi do it!" "Daddy do it!" (He can't say Jackson and Mika, so it's JJ and Mimi.) He is such a drama queen. If we get on to him about anything, he puts on this big pouty face, looks down, and makes little sounds like he's going to cry.

He says "ee" (three) when you ask him how old he is. Then when we say, "You're not three! How old are you?" he says "oo" (two).

When we play Uno he likes to run around yelling, "UNO! UNO! UNO!" He tries to grab cards and throw them around.

He LOVES rainbows. He is always pointing them out (in the sky, in books, on clothes, etc) and saying "bayboh!"

Max's rainbow drawing

Favorites:

Songs- alphabet song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Old McDonald Had a Farm, and the Titipo theme song

TV shows- anything with nursery rhymes, Cocomelon, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Titipo and other shows with trains

Books-
Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
The Berenstain Bears On the Moon
Freight Train
10 Timid Ghosts

Toys- he basically plays with trucks and trains all day. Pretty much anything with wheels. He also enjoys puzzles like shape sorters and things to nest. He loves play-doh. He also really enjoys riding his balance bike.

Favorite places- zoo, playgrounds, pools

Potty Training-as of his third birthday, potty training was not going well. He has a really stubborn personality and could almost never be persuaded to sit on the potty. 

Chores- he's pretty good about bringing his dishes to the sink, putting his clothes in the hamper, putting his shoes away, and helping me clean up toys. Although to be honest, at the end of the day I'm usually too tired and overwhelmed to ask him to help me clean, but the times I do, he will sing the clean up song and help. (We sing, "Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere. Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share." He sings, "Be bup, be bup" over and over because he can't say the real words.)

Other random stuff:

He is always trying to keep up with Jackson and Mika and do everything they do.

He's really silly and is always trying to make jokes or silly faces to get us to laugh. 

He's so destructive. He is constantly breaking things, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose. He also thinks it's so funny to get in the way. When he hears us transferring laundry into the dryer, he'll come running so he can throw the clothes on the floor or block the dryer with his body so we can't put in the clothes. He still loves messing with the dishwasher when we're trying to load it. He's constantly trying to break apart the Lego creations Jackson makes. When I play board games with the big kids, Max comes through like a tornado and tries to throw the pieces everywhere. I can't leave stacks of folded laundry anywhere for long or he'll come over and throw everything on the floor. (This is the one thing I will begrudgingly admit has been good for me, as it's forced me into the habit of putting laundry away almost immediately.)

He fusses for me to paint his toenails if he sees me or Mika doing ours. He likes us to use red or blue. He also asks Mika to put makeup on him if he sees her putting on makeup.

Maxwell at 18 Months

Weight: 21 lbs. 7 oz.
Height: 31.5"
Clothing size: can fit 12 or 18 month

Speech: He has said Mama, Dada, uh-oh, O (for Oma), and he can make siren noises.

It's so cute to me how he pushes boundaries. He knows he's not allowed in the bathroom. When I'm in it he'll come right to the door and put one foot inside to see if I notice. If I do, I'll tell him to get out and he'll pull his foot back. Then put it in two seconds later while making this mischievous face.

He was mad I caught him stealing toilet paper. 

He is so good about food. He even likes vegetables. If I sit down with a salad, he will come running and shove handfuls into his mouth. Once he was sucking the dressing off the leaves and then trying to shove them in my mouth.
He uses forks and spoons really well.
We eat lunch with Mika at school and he loves running away from me because it makes the big kids laugh. (Pretty much any time I have to go out in public with him becomes me chasing after him and trying to get him to stop messing with vending machines and water fountains.)

His favorite toys are anything with wheels. He loves trucks, buses, and fire trucks the most. He loves his cozy coupe.
He likes to try to stuff himself in his big vehicles, like Mika's doll jeep and a Mega Bloks dump truck. He also likes to sit in suitcases and dresser drawers. He likes to sit on doll furniture.

He really likes to take kitchen items with handles and hide them, especially cheese graters and the flour sifter. He likes to take things out of kitchen and bathroom cabinets. He likes to climb up on stools and get stuff from the kitchen counter. He likes climbing into the cabinets to hide from me, especially if it's time for a diaper change.

Hmm...where's Max? Oh, just hiding from a diaper change :)

If he's not sure if he's allowed to hold/play with something, he will say "eh?" and hold it out to see if I take it away from him...

...except for tissues...

He loves looking at other babies but doesn't understand how soft he needs to be.
He loves swinging at the playground and he fearlessly goes down big slides. He can sit on the big kid swings if you push very gently. If we're on a walk and we walk past a playground, he will growl at me to take him to it. He loves running up and down ramps. He has squeaky shoes and every time we go out people talk about how cute he is. (They are also a great safety feature because you can hear where he is if he runs away.)
He got to do a bouncy house for the first time and loved it.
He likes playing in snow.

He LOVES playing with dolls! 

He loves peek-a-boo, "This Little Piggie," and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." He dances when he hears music.
He does pretend play. He will pretend to pick up stuff and hand it to me. He makes me food and drink. He will pick up objects and pretend to be talking on the phone.
He likes to put on headphones, hats, sunglasses, and headbands.
He likes trying to "help" with chores- wiping off tables and sweeping.