PJ - 22 months

PJ has been a big brother for 12 days and he is doing great!  I am so proud of PJ becoming a big brother.  PJ is gentle to MJ, curious about what MJ is doing but not in MJ's face, and he is happy to help with MJ in anyway we ask him.
Overall this past month has been big for PJ verbally.  Both his words and understanding our words.  The highlights of this past month:
PJ understand telling a joke.  His jokes are not that funny(that will take time), but he gets the idea of a punchline and getting you to laugh.  PJ has started to repeat words that we laugh at when he says them.  Then the best of all is that he told his first knock knock joke.  PJ is the only one that can say "Knock Knock", you have to say "Who's there?" (PJ will repeat his line until you say your line), then PJ will tell you who is at the door, then we all laugh!  What I love is that he says the joke a lot of times in a row and each time its someone new at the door.  Usually its Poppy/Bubba, G, Daddy, Momma, Chey-Chey, Ome, Jacob, and now even Baby gets to be at the door (only sometimes).  So although the joke is not hilarious, its pretty funny how PJ delivers the joke and how happy he is to make you laugh.  
Not only is PJ telling jokes but his words are becoming clearer and more abundant.  He now calls Ry Daddy, not Dada.  He can say Poppy, but still prefers Bubba.  He can say at least 10 colors and when told a new color he repeats you pretty clearly.
PJ loves to point out things and tell you who owns the object and be reminded what the name of the object and what the object does.  For instance he will point to a vacuum and say Momma, but then you can say "Yes, Momma uses the vacuum to clean the house."  Then he will try to repeat house, vacuum, and/or clean.  Its so much fun seeing him process the world around him and then provide some sort of output.  Especially since MJ is just at the beginning of processing the world, and its hard to believe in less than 22 months we will be talking to MJ like we are to PJ and getting a logical response.
PJ is really excelling at school as well.  PJ is kind to his friends, he likes to help out friends that are sad or are being left out.  He will bring toys or share his toy with a child that looks upset or has one taken from him.  Of course sometimes he takes toys from his friends, but on most occasions he feels bad for what he has done and brings the toy back or provides a different toy to the friend.  His teachers love to share with us how he shares and how he is so kind in such a gentle way.  I am most proud of this new development, although I am not sure how much credit I can take for it.  I think its just part of PJ's personality and its so lovely to see.
Just 2 more months and we won't be referring to PJ in months of age but in years.  Wow, things are changing here...