Kellen is 20 months now. What a fun age! Just in the last week, he has started doing so many new things. His vocabulary has greatly increased. He's trying to say everything we say, most of the time its not even close, but he keeps trying. He's turning into quite a ham, whenever I get the camera out he gives me a big, "CHEESE". He's been such a good traveler. We've gone back and forth between here and home several times now, and he's been so easy in the car (the DVD player helps). His love for music has just increased over the months. He loves it when Uncle Keith plays his guitar and banjo for him. He also really likes to play the piano. I hope his passion for music continues. We would love for him to take music lessons someday. He's also learned to give hugs and kisses. I caught him giving kisses to his stuffed Big Bird the other day. Really sweet!
I am proud to say that we have gotten rid of the pacifier! I had been dreading taking it away for the past several months, but knew it had to be done. I had cut the pacifier usuage back a while ago, only allowing him to have it in the crib. We actually made a game out of it! When I would take Kellen out of his crib I would say, "throw it away", and he would take the binky out of his mouth and throw it in the crib. He's always loved throwing things, so he would just crack up. So taking it away all together was a little bit easier. We just decided to go cold turkey. I hid all the binky's and haven't spoken of them since. Its been about ten days since he last had it, and seems to be fine. The first few days he had some trouble napping, but we didn't have any problems at night. Now he's back to sleeping about three hours during the afternoon and eleven to twelve hours at night. I'm so glad we took it away now, before he got any older and it made it much harder! 
