17 Months. I feel like I blinked and we got here. Well, technically 17.5 months because as usual I am late getting this post up. If it counts for anything I actaully took the pictures the day he hit 17 months. I just haven’t gotten on the computer that has the photos to post them. This whole no computer things gets hard when I am bouncing back and forth between two different ones. Anywho, I really cannot beleive I am a month away from him being a year and a half. He just seems so big now. It’s crazy.

To my little man,

You are growing so much. Actually you went from the 10% to the 18% at your doctor’s appointment a few weeks ago. Since then your eating has slowed WAY down, so you must have had a huge growth spurt to get you up there and now you may be leveling back out. Not only are you growing physically, but you are growing leaps and bounds with the things you are learning every day. You are picking up words like crazy. You look for patterns in things. You have learned to look at the picture on a puzzle piece and find that picture on your puzzle and know exactly where it goes – this has impressed me the most. I didn’t expect you would be grasping those skills so soon. Whenever you find shoes around the house, you bring them to the door and pile them up there. I think you think that’s where they go since that’s where daddy always puts the pair he wears to work. You have also started being really good at putting things away after you play with them. You get distracted half way through cleaning up, but at least you are learning. One of your favorite things to do right now is to watch me sweep the floor, then you run in after I finish to help me sweep all the dirt into the dustpan. You insist on helping every single time. I hope that means you are going to be a good helper.

You have also become extremely attached to your stuffed animals, or as you call them “baby.” I switch them out here and there so you don’t get attached to just one (there’s my secret) just in case we lose it. You are equally attached to your blankie, which I do the same thing with. So you are attached to having at least one with you at all times right now, doesn’t matter which, but you have to have them. You walk around the house with them, cuddle with them, and most definitely sleep with them. It is really the sweetest thing to watch.

Being your mom has been the most incredible thing. It’s hard, and scary, and lovely, and so much more all balled up into one. It’s crazy to think you are already such a big boy. Well, at least you like to think so. I really am so happy to call you mine.

Until next month.

Love,

Mommy