Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Seventeen Months

Nathan, you are seventeen months old!

You are my crazy cuckoo boy. You go nonstop and get such a kick out of yourself! You've learned to step up your walk to a run and Daddy and I love hearing your feet pitter across the wood floors. You spin in circles till you are dizzy, you walk around on your tip toes, and you are just generally all over the place! After our trip to Hilton Head, we also realized you grew a bit because now you can climb onto the furniture and reach the counters. We're in trouble!

You're very good at identifying various body parts and have learned to show us your "muscles" by flexing your arms and shaking them. You're a pretty good mimic and are such a smart boy, amazing us all the time by what you understand and what you get from us. I have a really hard time understanding your ever growing vocabulary but I know you're trying. Some of my favorites: "uh-ooh", "baby", "tweet-tweet", "bock-bock."

You got your second haircut this month and it's turning blonder each week! All of your molars made it through so now you have twelve teeth. You constantly have nicks or bruises somewhere on your body from being so active, despite my trying to keep you out of harms way. You outgrow your shoes before you can even wear them out and you're on to size 7 now! Such big feet, you are going to be such a tall boy!

We turned your carseat around for our trip to Hilton Head and you seem to really enjoy facing forward. I love turning around and seeing your smiling face looking back at me. You grab my hand to lead me places, which melts my heart and is just so sweet. You're still totally and helplessly addicted to your pacifier. I'm trying to limit its use but it's really hard for both of us.

We try to color, mostly with crayons or chalk (both of which you call "boo"), but I think you're still a little young. Most of the time you have more fun taking the colors out of the box and putting them back in. You are quite the sorter!

Your endless energy never ceases to amaze me and you constantly have me on my toes but I love seeing your busy little body on the go. I love you so much little monkey!
xoxo

Seventeen Month Stats:

Weight - around 27 pounds

Diapers - size 4

Clothes - 24m to 2T; shoes, size 6.5-7

1 comment:

Sjn said...

so glad we get to see him, and you of course, next week!