17 Months

New Words: Oh My Gosh! After I did last month's post I decided that Andrew and I were going to try to be better about keeping track of all of Caleb's words. And then...his vocabulary EXPLODED! It is next to impossible to keep up with all the words this kid is learning on a daily basis. So, I honestly am only going to be posting a fraction of the new words this month: book, moon, one, broke, plant, two, three, star, bath, "hop hop" {for bunny, currently his OBSESSION}, seal, giraffe, elephant, turtle, bear, shoes, socks, shark, teacher {from the book Brown Bear - he also can name all the animals in here}, poop {he now uses this to tell us both when he's about to pee or about to poop, so we've ordered a potty and will probably start working with him on potty training when it arrives in the mail}

New phrases: in bath (again, I've heard more of these, but wasn't good about writing them down)

New skills: I'm sure he's been able to do this for a while, but when you ask him where his toes or feet are he'll bend down to touch them. Very close to being able to jump on two feet thanks to Willow and Zoe at daycare. And he's this.close to climbing out of his crib.

Milestones: Two new teeth {for a total of 14}

Eating: NOT still eating like a champ. I *think* that he still prefers vegetables over meat, but sadly he's discovered bread. Andrew and I can't even enjoy bread with our meals anymore because if he sees it he won't eat anything else. And the ocean is refusing water...he's no longer gobbling down fruits at the end of a meal.

Favorites: Right now Caleb is absolutely obsessed with rabbits. Anytime he sees anything that even remotely looks like bunny ears he starts yelling, "Hop Hop!" over and over and over. He's also obsessed with his Baby Signing videos that we were given for Christmas. When he wants to watch he uses the sign for "signing" which kinda looks like the hand motions for "false start" in football. He also says, "yi yi" for "signing." No longer so into the Classical Baby video. We limit him to two viewings a day - one before nap and another before bed...but he begs for it all day long!

I took the pictures below on a few different days. Getting a good one of him sitting still is not going to happen unless we plop him in front of one of his Baby Signing videos {I'll have to try that next month!} PS. If anyone out there in blogger land {cough, cough...Memaw} is looking for an Easter present for Caleb, he's in need of volume 3 and 4 of these videos.