Seventeen Months!!!

Vake, you are 17 months old today!!!

You are growing and changing SO quickly. You are the busiest little boyin the world- always on the move. You are full on from the time the sun goes up until the time I put you down at night. You never stop moving. NEVER! You've got a super intense personality to match- things are really great or really horrible (wonder where you get that from- couldn't possibly be your mama????)

You weigh 35 pounds(!!!!!). You wear mostly 3t clothes but have some 2t and 4ts that work too. You wear a size 7 diaper (which of course they don't carry in stores and we have to order from diapers.com) and size 8 shoes (you need the size 8 more for the width than anything else- there's not a huge selection of shoes in double extra wide.

In the same way that you are enthusiastic about the good and the bad, you are a champion sleeper. Right now you go to bed between 6:00 and 7:00 and sleep until around. You usually take one good nap for 2.5 to 3 hours - always in the afternoon.

You are getting to be a pretty good talker but it is weird talking. You don't use many words in ways that make sense (only a couple, like dog and tick-tock). You use a lot that make no sense at all in context and then you've got a large vocabulary of crazy words.

You have figured out how a fork and spoon work and you really want to use them- it doesn't always go so well. You love to feed your dog from your tray and you are getting sick and tired of sitting in a high chair.

You have favorite books (Freight Train especially) that you will read again and again and then bring to your daddy and me to read.

Vpumpkin, we love you very much!!!!