17 months old!

Hunter is 17 months old! He has been sick for the past week with an ear infection. The only good to side to that was that we were able to get him weighed at the doctor's office. He has gained weight! At this appointment, he weighed 23 lbs and 5 oz. That is much better! Hopefully he will keep gaining! :)
He loves graham crackers, yogurt, apple sauce, milk, and his antibiotic (ha!--guess they make those things super sweet).

Hunter has 10 teeth completely through and four that are half way. He has another 2 or 3 that are right at the surface but have not cut yet. Whew... that is a lot of teething!
He talks a lot-- a lot of gibberish but has more words that are clear lately. He can say:
Watch
Dog
Bear
Go
Woah
Yuck
Ball
Ouch
Good to go (good to go to go to go)
bath
apple juice (ahhhh juuuuu)
Duck
Cookie
Choo Choo
Cracker (caaacaar)
Car
Shoes
Up
More
God (Gahhhhhh)
and my personal favorite: diaper (he says Bop-per and it is the cutest thing I have ever heard!)

Today I did my workout after he was awake. I set up the living room with all his toys and set up the gate so he would have to stay in there with me. He was too cute. There is one part of the workout where I do squats and then lift weights over my head. The girl on the video says, "down, up, down, up." Hunter watched really intently and then started bending his legs and then standing up while saying "up!" He did this over and over with me... looks like I have a new workout buddy!! :)

Cute Stories

One early morning about a month ago, I woke up to Hunter screaming. Not just his normal morning cry. It sounded like he was in pain. I flew to his room and in my groggy state I saw nothing out of the ordinary, so I figured he just wanted to cuddle. So I brought him to bed with me. For a few minutes, he was very happy cuddling, but then he got worked up again. Now I knew something was wrong. I looked him over and realized his thumb was STUCK in his hair.

Hunter has an adorable habit of twirling his hair around his fingers to soothe himself. I guess he twisted and curled so much that his thumb got stuck this time. By the time I figured what was wrong, his thumb was a bluish-purplish color. Josh and I freaked out and then grabbed scissors. I tried to cut as little of his hair as possible to free his thumb.

You would think that would teach him, but no.... this has happened two more times since then. Once I had to cut a bigger chunk of hair and the second time I was able to work it free with no cutting.
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We have been teaching Hunter a few of the catechism questions. The first one is: Q: Who made you? A: God. He picked up on this very quickly, but for the first few days his answer was something that sounded similar to "CaaaaCaaaaa." Oops. Now he says, "Gaaaaaaaa." Both adorable, but the second one sounds much better!!!
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Hunter drops his food A LOT during his meal times. He thinks it is sooo funny. We are trying to teach him that this is not appropriate, but in the mean time we are cleaning the floor a lot! More than once now, as Hunter has been playing, he will walk over and grab a tissue and then walk to the floor by his high chair and rub the carpet with the tissue. It took me a while to figure out what he was doing, but his daddy got it right away: he has seen us clean the floor so many times he thinks it is something he should do, too!

Roaring and Coloring

So today Hunter and I colored together while listening to the Wicked soundtrack. We had so much fun! I had to film him... he is beginning to understand how to make lines with the crayons instead of just dots. It is adorable. Plus, he likes Wicked.

I edited the video from today with one from a few days ago where he learned how to "roar."

Enjoy!!!