Seventeen Months

I still can't believe he is seventeen months old already. Seriously, where did the time go? What happened to that baby that barely cried those three days in the hospital? the baby that hated tummy time? the baby that loved nursing? the baby that wanted to be held ALL of the time?

He's all grown up. Now he runs around the yard, throws balls overhand, loves to go down the slide by himself, loves his swing, his doggie, and talking.

Joshua has learned to mimic the sounds of the chickens, the rooster, the cows,, the lambs, the dog, and still mimics the sound of socks' meow.

Here he is yesterday morning snacking and playing.

His latest words at seventeen months are: Bull, Papa, Yum, and Pete (from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse), Papos (shoes in Spanish). He will try to mimic any word we say to him so we are in for a very early talker. He also has learned to use some ASL and will use some of the signs when he wants something.

Texas Tradition

There is a Texas tradition to have your little ones pictures taken in the Bluebonnet flower patches that you can find all over the place when you're driving down the road. So one day I stopped while driving down Hwy 290 and put Joshua in the Bluebonnets and snapped some pictures.

These were taken in Chappell Hill, TX after the Bluebonnet festival earlier in the month.

New Toys

I've been looking around for things for Joshua to do while he is outside. We just aren't able to go and buy one of those great big wood playscapes right now for the yard. So I spent a couple dollars and brought home a cute little slide for him.

While we were out and about we bought a great Radio Flyer wagon at a flea market. He loves it. It is going to come in handy for camping and for taking him around the property with us.

I went and bought his couch that flips out to a bed and took one of the rocking chairs to the storage unit so that he could have a little area to sit and hopefully start napping on.

This is the sweetest picture of Joshua and his daddy. They were flying a kite.

Flowers

Yesterday Joshua went with us out onto the back of the field and there are these little blue flowers all over the place (not bluebonnets) and he liked to swat at them. They are gorgeous. I am going to get some bluebonnet seeds to scatter for next year.