17 months

Will is 17 months!

Will,

• You are talking so much now! You call me "mama" throughout the day and I love it! You also say dada, ball, book, Elmo, "more" (for Cheerios), Coco, bye-bye, milk, baby, boy, night-night, and hi.
• Right now your favorite toys are balls (you like us to throw them and then you go get them and bring them back to us!), books, your shape-sorter elephant toy, and anything in the kitchen!
• You are generally in a good mood and spend most of the day smiling, squealing, and laughing! We also think you are an extrovert…you seem to get really happy around a big group of people, you walk up to strangers and talk to them, and you are sometimes VERY vocal in public, like you were today at the library:)
• You eat a big bowl of oatmeal and applesauce for breakfast every morning, which seems to keep you full most of the day. You also love bananas, grapes, sweet potatoes, and turkey. And Cheerios of course!
• You are still taking two naps a day. We tried one nap today and it didn't go over so well.
• You have started walking around the house so fast that you're practically running. You stumble a lot less now and never crawl anymore. 
• You sit calmly in my lap when you get up from your naps while you drink milk, and this is definitely the highlight of my day! I often think that I wish I could freeze time so that you would stay like this forever! I love you!!  

You often speak gibberish really fast and animated and then turn your hands out like this as if to say "Well, mom, what do you think?" So cute!