One of my main purpose of this blog is to continue River Boy's baby book. This month he is 17 months old. Everyday is a new adventure. He says more, he plays more, he's up, he's down. Busy, busy, busy. He's a 50/50 mix of "uh-oh's" and "aha's". And 100% amusement. Here's some highlights from this month.
- Climbing on the dining room table. His favorite activity. Drives me crazy. Found him the first time, standing up, dancing and reaching for the hanging light. About had a heart attack.
- Bath time - loves it until soap and shampoo are involved. Then it's torture for everyone involved.
- Post bath naked time has been suspended until further notice. Caught him running behind his crib to squat and pee. Ah the joys...
- Animal noises - we learn a new one almost every day
Bear "roooaaaarr" - he has a very deep and impressive roar,
Bird "caw",
Pig - he does a better pig than I do. He does the snort noise. He doesn't actually say oink
Cow "moo".
He still does "awe" for a puppy says but now he does a "woof, woof" for dog.
Monkey noises
- Loves to help scramble our morning eggs. Gets quite upset if he can't stir them.
- Favorite Foods - eggs, bananas, graham crackers, ham, bread, tortellini, beans, applesauce, zucchini bread. Discovered that he's allergic to something in the hummus. I hate this, hummus was our "go to" snack.
hot, car, beep beep, shoes,
turn (any light switch that needs to be turned on or off),
peees (please but it has so many more letters in it when he says it),
bup (up), uh-oh, vroom, mom, dad, hey, bye, shoes, bread,
thank you (never gets the you but he nods and its cute)
- Things I swear he says:
"where'd it go?"
"i see it"
"there it is"
"Babe" (the movie)
"bit bit" (nanas dog)
"alligator" (came out clear as day perfectly, one time. He can't do it again)
- Things I never thought I would ever have to say:
"stop playing with your poop"
"get your lunch out of your ear"
"get your foot out of your bowl, we do not eat our breakfast with our feet"
- He loves to play phone with any object. The remote, a camera, a spoon, a stick, etc. He'll stop what he's doing, pick something up, say "Hey" and walk off talking. I'd love to know what he was saying to his imaginary people.
- My iPad and phone are what you seem you desire most. You want it all and you definitely want whatever you aren't supposed to have. But the phone and iPad are what he strives to get his grubby paws on all day.
- He's learning to hop/jump. He doesn't really get both feet off the ground at the same time but he is having so much fun jumping.
- Our dance sessions are daily and contagious. We have a morning dance party each day. You never know when the need to dance is going to take over. Sometimes the boy just feels the music. I have no idea where he's getting his dance moves. I would break something if I danced like that. You can't help but dance along with him when he gets going.
- Everyone needs to have their shoes on at all times. Vacant shoes will be hunted down and returned to their rightful owners.
- Snoopy is still the favorite stuffed animal
- Can't get rid of the one last bottle that is hanging around at bedtime. He does really well with his Sippy cups all day, but that last one. It's going to be a bottle come hell or high water.
- Very ticklish under the armpits, and still can get you on the leg at times. We've been having some good tickle-giggle sessions. Good laughs still result in hiccups.
- Clothing: There are a few 9mo onesies that he is still wearing but mostly he's wearing 12mo sizes.
- He is starting to blow kisses. Mostly just puts his hand up to his mouth and kisses that but I know what he's doing. He even says "muah" when he does it.
- Gives kisses and the sweetest hugs. He kisses all his stuffed animals when he picks them up. His hugs are true and tight. He's the sweetest little love.
- Goes down for nap and bedtime when wide awake, plays a few rounds of music and goes to sleep on his own. (Insert happy dance here)
- Lots of non-sensical baby jibberish. We-oo-jubbayubbayabba. There are long, involved conversations that only one of us understand at times. You have to laugh when he says his whole entire vocabulary in one conversation. The other night he walked into the kitchen, spouted off a tirade of jibberish. What I got out of it was….Bear and "Awe" Puppy were taking a bath and there was a car that had an uh-oh. Not sure if that's what Riverboy was trying to tell me but he seemed satisfied when I gave him a high five and a "Right On".
- Several times a week we have to go pick apples off our trees. He was in apple heaven! The deer finally picked the tree clean. Now we have to avoid the apple trees because someone has a meltdown when we can't find any good apples.
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