17 Month Update

It has been a very busy and exciting month! So much so that we don't really have all that many pics of Noah..haha. I usually try to take pics on or around when I write these posts but these pics are mostly from a couple of weeks ago. I suppose now that he's older it doesn't really make that much of a difference anyway since he's not really changing that much physically. Just growing taller all the time! He seems to be very tall and the last time we went for a check-up he was still in the upper percentiles for height, so Peter's still hoping that Noah will be 6'5". I think we'll be lucky if he breaks 5'9".

Noah has been making a lot of progress with communication, which has been very exciting. He understands most things that we say, even if he doesn't always do what we ask him to. Last night at dinner we were trying to get him to eat chicken tenders but he kept wanting to eat french fries only. We said that he had to eat chicken first if he wanted a fry and like magic he opened up for the chicken. So that's how the rest of the meal went...bribing him with french fries to eat chicken. At one point he wanted another fry so he picked up a piece of chicken and started waving it around and pointing towards the fries. At daycare though, he's apparently a champion eater. He usually eats everything given to him, and if I get there to pick him up during snack time, he'll try to grab all of his snack into his hands before getting up from the table. I don't know what kind of magic they use there but he eats everything and takes super long naps. He's a good eater in general, but I don't think he eats as well at home. Same with the naps. He's not a bad napper, but at daycare he sleeps on a little cot and will sometimes take a 3 hour nap!! I wish they would start using utensils at daycare and work their magic there too. Then maybe he'd use them better at home. Noah has made some progress with the spoon and just started using a fork, but we're still pretty far from him being able to use utensils independently. Or maybe it's just me and I can't bear to let him fling the food around everywhere.

Noah still loves playing with balls and books and watching Sesame Street videos. He plays with the basketball hoop we have at home sometimes, but mostly he just likes carrying the balls around or trying to put it in his little car. He also spend a lot of time "reading" books. He particularly likes to take a book out of the bookshelf, get in his chair (sometimes I put a blanket on him), flip through it, then put it back and get out another one. He's a funny little guy. When he was younger, he used to just like pulling all of the books out of the shelf and throwing them on the floor, but recently he's finally starting to put them back as well. In general he's less destructive all the time and has started putting things back in order. This is definitely a skill I need to try and cultivate! I've been told that kids lose interest in putting things back very quickly though.

Even though Noah continues to understand a lot, his vocabulary hasn't really expanded much since last month. I think the only new words he knows are dog, mouth, water ("wah" - and this refers to all beverages), itchy (he currently has a bit of a rash and he's been scratching it a lot) and baby. We just taught him baby a couple of days ago in an effort to help him get ready for his future baby brother/sister - arriving this August! :)


We're just about at the end of the 1st trimester, and the baby is due on August 10. Another August baby! Hopefully Noah won't be too jealous. :)