17 Months!

Our baby is 17 months old today and we're left trying to figure out where our baby went. He is definitely a toddler now!

In addition to the 4 words we started saying earlier in the week, yesterday he said "bye-bye" and this morning he said banana, which came out "nana". He gets so proud of himself when he says real words :)

Other than the new words, not a lot going on with him. He's starting to act out a little more so we've been having some rough days. We're trying to stop the behavior now before it gets worse though. It's nothing terrible, but he thinks he always needs to be the center of attention. If Cody and I are trying to have a conversation he will start screaming over us so that we have to stop talking and talk to him, which is totally unacceptable! We all know he's not deprived of attention, that's for sure!

He's also very impatient. When he decides he's hungry, he expects food to be ready for him immediately. So, as I'm preparing his meal he'll hang on to my legs and scream until it's done. Again, not acceptable.

So, the last few days he's been a little cranky, but overall he really is a good little boy. We often let him walk when we go to the store instead of putting him in the cart and he is really well behaved. He doesn't touch stuff he's not supposed to and when he is allowed to touch something he is really good about putting it back where he got it when we ask him to.

Some of his favorite things right now are books, of course, and anything that's not actually one of his toys. He loves playing with "grown-up" things. He spends most of the day carrying around a frying pan. We'll ask him to fry an egg and he'll put the pan down, wiggle his fingers around in the middle of the pan and make a sizzle sound. Apparently he pays a lot more attention when we're cooking than we realized!

Up!

Other than mama and dada, of course, Jacob's first word was up. We've been thinking he was going to start spitting out words soon because he appeared to be trying to mimic things we were saying but they just wouldn't come out.

Then, finally, he wanted in his highchair so he was trying to pull the tray off and he said "Up". Now he wants "up" on everything. That was the start, now a week after he first said it he says "down", "ball" and "book" as well. Of course the last letters don't get pronounced most of the time, but it's obvious what he's trying to say.