17 months~Growing up Fast

Gosh son, you are growing up before our eyes.  I know everyone always said early on, he will be in kindergarten before long.  I definitly believe that, you will!  Days go by and then months and it all happens so fast.  We love you more with each passing day and can't imagine life without you!  You have changed so much in the last few months!  You no longer seem to be falling down, you are a steady walker and runner for that matter.  You can run about 20 feet without problems, amazing to me after all the things we heard on your Birth Day.  One thing is for sure, God is in control of your life and he isn't finished with you yet!  You started cutting your molars on top and your bottom right tooth (teeth 7,8, &9) all on the same day.  It was around the 15th of December and now they are almost cut through completely.  Now we have those bottom molars to be looking forward to!  You are a major fan of your bop these days and you will go all over the house looking for it when its bedtime.  You say Baa, Baa.  It is pretty cute!  You still love to play in your closet with your little people town, but since Christmas you have a few new favs.  You love your guitar, blocks, cars, ride ons.  Your favorite thing to do since we rearranged your room and made it a semi big boy room is to sit at your table and read books or play with your laptop.  You love to put your phone, keys, and laptop in your backpack (with help of course) and take them for a ride in the cozy coupe and then back to your table.  Daddy thinks you are going to work, who knows with you though!  Eating has not been one of your favorite pasttimes ever since you started cutting those molars.  Some days you eat us out of house and home, others not enough to keep a bird alive.  You like spaghetti, sweet potatoes, yogurt cereal, big boy cereal, carrots, bread, and pastas.  The one thing you would eat no matter how full or how sick is a cracker and boy do you have that word down.  You go to the cabinet often and ask for crack-ker or a cook cook which is a cookie.  You love those two things.  Your favorite cookie is an oreo (momma's fav too so we haven't bought any in a while).  You still love to stay with your Gran, but you still like to be eating when I leave to prevent a melt down.  Gran pretty much knows how to keep you happy and she does it all day long, we love her bunches!  You love for people to visit, to go visiting, and to go shopping or out to eat.  You love to be in your stroller anywhere.  You are kind of messy at restaurants because you try to feed Chance and the food gets messy on the floor, we are breaking you of this slowly.  Your new fav restaurant is Front Page, you love beans, mac, rolls in your own bowl of course, fries, and a little chicken for your meal. You still absolutely love music and to dance.  You love Grandma's ringtone and can really get down to it, but any music will do.  You still love your Celine CD that is now downloaded on all iPhones, ha!  You like to play along to Head and Shoulders and If your happy and you know it.  You love to play with our iPhone, you know how to unlock it, and turn on the iPod, imagine you figuring out how to turn on the music.  You love to watch your DVD player in the car, your fav movie is Toy Story.  You will watch it over and over.  You like the Backyardigans-racing episode and Yo Gabba Gabba or Barney if you are watching tv.  You still sleep with us at night and are still sleeping through the night, although I hear that can slow down around this time as you are learning to do more things.  Ok so we just let you drink however much milk you want to right now and juice sometimes if it doesn't upset your tummy.  You love to drink gaa gaa (gatorade), but we don't do it too much because it upsets your tummy too.  You can't do too many acidic drinks, so mainly we stick to milk.  You drink alot of it, typically 16-20 oz at least per day.  If you get up before 8, you still take 2 naps.  After 8, 1 3 hour nap.  At night you still rock and drink milk, but you hate brushing your teeth these days.  It used to be cool!  You still love riding in the car, eating cheerios, and have branched out to fruit loops and apple jacks (momma even tried apple jacks when you did).  You are still wearing SMO's until March when we see Dr. Sawyer.  You get a new pair Friday of this week.  Your feet are doing so much better, although I think there will always be some outward rotation.  Church is getting better, we have learned to take lots of snacks.  One snack that is not a good idea is a ring pop, it gets us all messy.  We take cracker, cereal and marshmallows your three fav snacks.  You don't get into trouble until you have been there an hour, its like that is your absolute limit to sit there!  You are growing up 25 pounds (with clothes) and 33 inches, WOW I can hardly believe it.  You have almost doubled your birth height.  You are growing into a handsome little boy, not quite the baby I gave birth to anymore.  I must remember not to hold on too tight, you are here for God's purpose, not for me, and I must allow you to fulfill your purpose so that you may return to him some sweet day, what a sweet day that will be for us all!