Seventeen Months

Holden is seventeen months old now. Already. And every day is definitely starting to get more and more fun.

Not that it hasn't been fun since the very beginning. It's just that now.... Well, I feel like he just woke up one morning recently and decided he was ready to talk! He will now try to repeat almost anything he hears you say. And he's made lots of animal sounds and other sounds effects for awhile, but now instead of just barking, he will say "Ina" (Indiana) or instead of just vrooooming when he hears a car, he says "car." And it's so much nicer to have him actually ask for what he wants!

It's so much fun to just watch the way his little mind works and see what he comes up with to do. And I feel like he just mimics every single thing we do now, and it's amazing to me to realize how much he has already learned about how to act from us.

But of course, when we look back though pictures of even just a year ago, it's bittersweet to fully embrace how big he is now. And how fast the "baby stage" is really over.

He's always had his own personality, preferences, and quirks, but now he just seems like such a person.

He's definitely fast becoming an ornery toddler. And we really are having fun watching him grow into a boy.




But, for just a little while longer, I think maybe he can still be my baby.