Seventeen Months: "WOW!"

Dear Beanie,

Happy seventeen months! "Wow!", you'd say, and you'd be right! 

Truly a happy little boy!

I thought I'd start your monthly update by telling you all the things that other people say about you. You know that your daddy and I think you're the bee's knees, but what about the rest of the world? These are some things that people repeatedly say about you – both friends and strangers: You are gentle, sweet, so contented, you have the absolute cutest laugh, you are inquisitive, a thinker and an analyser, you are tentative, you are kind. And you are happy. It makes me so happy when other people tell me how happy you seem!

What can you do now?

A productive morning from my analytical boy :)

Your daddy and I agree: You have come leaps and bounds in the past month! It seems as if your brain has been so entirely focused on mastering walking and all that goes with it (walking sideways, walking backwards, walking on your toes, running, trotting, jumping, spinning, stair climbing...) that all of your cognitive development was kind of put on hold. And now there has been a total explosion! 


One month ago, you couldn't happily sit at your table and draw. Instead, you'd grab your pencils, pens and crayons, run over to our chest and insert them into the small slots, as if it was a shape sorter. Now you love to sit and draw. And just recently, you've discovered how much fun it is to draw all over yourself too :) 

One month ago, You couldn't drink from a cup or a bottle yourself. Or... should I say... you didn't. Now you are an expert! Though not at night in the cot... but this will come, if it needs to (which hopefully it won't!). 

One months ago, you would have a tantrum in frustration when you tried to do the wooden fruit puzzle. I'd have to put the apple just half a centimetre from its place and you'd have to slide it over to fit it in. Now, you can do the puzzle, almost every time, all by yourself! 

One month ago, reading books involved big board books only, and really was just about you flipping the pages as quickly as possible. Now, you listen to a story, you are gentle with real paper books, and you love to hunt around in the pictures for trees, balls, puppies, birds, cars, buses, boats and cows and elephants.


Now all of these things make you say, “WOW!” all day, every day. Indeed, little one. Wow!  

You amaze me, bean.

I love you.

Love, Mummy.