17 Months!

Please excuse the pretzel all over this sweet face! We are up to 17 months now, and I tell you what - I can't feed this child enough, or keep him still long enough to take our traditional month-month pictures! This is the only one I got! Here's an update for this month...

Lincoln has become VERY expressive. This is his FAVORITE greeting for everyone... Anyone who is brave enough to even say "hi" to this child gets this face in response. And I can't stop him because everybody always laughs, which makes him do it again!

And that's not the only face we've learned to make. He is now making LOTS of silly faces! My favorite one though is when he is "rocking out" to music in the car. He has definitely been watching his daddy too much! He sticks his lips out and head bangs! Sometimes even raises the roof... The very best is when he "sings" with the radio. Funny stuff right there.

Lincoln's favorite things right now: tractors and big trucks! He will keep himself busy for a good hour just by playing with his tractors in the living room. When we are outside (thank you Lord for a few warm and beautiful days!), his favorite thing is the lawnmower. He will push this thing around forever and cries and cries if you make him go in!

My little golf-pro. Please take note of my refrigerator. If you are/have been thinking of getting stainless appliances please take note... It will look like this on a DAILY basis. You've been warned...

Lincoln is wearing 24 month clothing, and can wear 2t shirts (but not 2t pants). He weighs right at 27 pounds and is going through a tall-skinny phase! One of our neighbors asked me the other day, "what is he, about three?" Haha!! I think it's a combo of LOTS of hair, and really tall...

He has started repeating just about anything you say to him. Here's a list of words we can get pretty easily now:

mama, dada, moose, uh-oh, bye-bye, hey, ball, tractor, truck, car, bubbles, cheese, peacock, shoe, milk, more, golf cart, fish, dog, moo, cheese, pap, and sometimes other random words pop out! I am absolutely LOVING it! It's almost like he picks up a new word every day right now!

Lincoln is also able to feed himself pretty independently now. Now if you try to give him a bite from your fork, you may as well forget it... HE wants to do it HIMSELF! And he's not awfully particular about what he eats, but if you really need to get him to eat, give him a hot dog, green beans, or mandarin oranges. But honestly, I think he'd rather play than sit and eat any day.

We also have a new wave - it's a pageant girl wave! Wide open hand sweeping back and forth... Mom says its exactly how I waved when I was little.

And he is really loving the aqua doodle right now too... As well as reading books. Sometimes he'll even read one to you! I've been trying to catch this on video, as it is one of the funniest things ever, but as soon as he sees the camera, he clams up. :(

He'll open the book, babble a bunch while pointing at a picture, then turn the page. He really thinks he's big Pete...

I don't know if you can tell it or not, but I love this kid to absolute pieces... Happy 17 month Birthday little Stinker!