17 Months

You found your shadow!

(that's Hero's shadow next to you!)

17 Months means:

-Putting on Mommy's shoes, Dadda's shoes, and your shoes...all by yourself!

-Putting keys into keyholes to unlock doors

-Putting clothes into the laundry when they are "dDirr" dirty

-Washing your face, and body in the bath and shower

-Helping Mommy carry groceries

-Picking out your clothes to wear (or informing Mommy, "Nooo" not that shirt-this shirt!"

-Recognizing your colors: You know red, blue, yellow, green, and orange. You favor RED!

-Saying, "hhhh" for hot with your hand raised and standing far away from the oven when it's on

-Sheriffing the animals not to get on the train table or eat food you drop from your chair

-Turning the light switch off and ON (you just mastered the up motion!)

-Getting bored of books you know and getting really excited to learn new things in new books (clock goes tick-tock tick-tock)

-Starting to eat more bland starchy foods and bananas

-Noticing your shadow for the first time

-Learning your strength when to hit (high fives, bugs etc.) when not to hit

-Taking care of "baby" time for nap, time for reading, etc.

-MAJOR teething all of your top teeth have been coming down simultaneously! Most have broken through the surface now and are just lowering. On the bottom, you only have two front teeth poking out (your first teeth that arrived!)

-Whispering sweetnothings into Mommy's ears and Mommy whispering sweetnothings into yours

-Finger puppet parades!

-One nap

-Rising interest in trains and new train table

-French with Dadda "wee wee!"

-Wagon rides galore!

-Baby lion Shadden (you crawl on all fours, leap, and make, "raaaors!")

-Relay races

-Bear crawl

-Riding in the truck at the grocery store

-Baby Talk

-You've nailed the "jump!" We've got Air, baby Jordan!

-Saying, "yeAAA!" with yessss! hand motions for yes

-No more baby highchair tray. You like plates & bowls and ask for utensils on the big table

-Saying A & B from your ABC book

Your favorite things are still:

Books, Piggyback Rides, Wild Romping, Skateboarding, Wagon Riding, Kitchen Helping, Cleaning Helping, Drumming, Music, Hammering, Babysitting, & being Mommy's big helper at ALL times

Words: Too many to list! But, I'll try to remember the most repeated words of the day

• Car
• Off
• Ball
• Boat
• Baby
• Woof, Woof
• Bu-ua (Bus)
• Aark! (shark)
• tuck (Truck)
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  First class as a toddler (My Gym)
  You RAN in the room the second they played the music and opened the doors and sprinted past the scared shocked little ones stuck frozen sitting in one place like you have been waiting to romp in a real gym your whole life. You tried EVERY piece of equipment. Hanging from the bars, walking by yourself on the high balance beam, jumping on the trampoline, the ball pit, you name it you tried it. Favorite moment? They called a "separation time" and had all the babes in the center and all the parents wait behind the red line. It took me a little while to realize I hadn't walked behind the line like I was told to, but I did. You played with crazy ball popping machines trying to get every ball into the machines. Then the teacher said, "Lets give the kids a big hand for doing SEPARATION." You looked up at her and whizzed your head in a split second past the kids to the parents and found me and like lightening bolted running out of the group and into my arms with the ear to ear grin. Meeeeelt! You were the only kid that did this. We hugged had a kiss and the teacher announced clean up time and you ran back to the group to hold up the bucket for everyone to put the balls into. My big helper...in charge! Daddy and I kept looking at one another beaming. You are our son. Perfect in every way!