Well hello there 17 month old Mikester!
I say it almost every month, but good grief you are growing and changing so much! Daddy and I love to see your blossoming personality – you are becoming quite a ham. We get these odd, questioning side glances when you walk by, we laugh, and then you turn and do this huge, booming, forced laugh. I would swear you do it just to make us laugh.
{Halloween} Of course we have to start with Halloween! This year you were more sure about things than last year, but still hesitant. I made you a shark costume (which, to toot my own horn, turned out ah-mazing) and you dressed up for our community’s Halloween party, church’s Halloween service and then on the actually day. We only went to a few houses, but by the last one you were happily filling your bucket. At just about every house you really just wanted to walk inside and make yourself comfortable. Lollipops were the candy of choice.
{Pumpkin Patch} We had a great time running around Yankey Farm and picking out pumpkins. You rode the cow train and played in the corn box. It was just enough excitement for a fall morning.
{Words} We’ve had a lot of long and involved conversations lately, but you seem to be the only one who understands what we are talking about. So far you say:
- Bubbles (bah-bulls): Bath time.
- Is this? (Iz dis?): What is this, with a pointing finger.
- Uh Oh (uhhhh-ohhhhh): Something happens. Anything really.
- Shoes (chews): The things on your feet. Including socks.
- Cheese (chhhhh-a-ez): Any time a camera comes out.
{Swimming 2.0} You’ve always been our water baby, but it’s been awhile since we’ve been in a pool. We decided to head over to Cub Run one afternoon and we weren’t sure how you were going to do now that you are a toddler and curious. We clearly had nothing to worry about. You’re laughs were the best EVER – pure excitement, from the belly and mouth wide open. You walked around the shallow end, kicked in the deep end and splashed everywhere in between. Dad and I kept looking at each other because we loved seeing you have so much fun.
{Clifton Days} We spent a couple hours at Clifton Days and you had a blast playing on the playground and dancing. We even watched the train go by!
{Eating} You are still a pretty good eater, there isn’t a hot dog you’ve met that you haven’t devoured. And as always, food is better when it comes from someone else’s plate. One new development though is the utensils. It seems you’ve connected that the food goes on a fork or spoon and in your mouth. You get VERY frustrated if we try to feed you! I would bet 85% of the time you manage to spear the food and get (most) of it in your mouth. Sometimes you ‘ask’ us to put the food on the fork, you eat it, hand back the fork, and begin again. It makes for a very long meal, but it’s worth it to see you figure out utensils.
Until next month sweet boy.
I’ll eat you up I love you so –
Momma xoxo
