17 months old

Logan turned 17 months on Thurdsay, October 1.

He's at such a fun age now. He loves to run around outside and he thinks he's big enough to play with the neighbor kids. Luckily, we have some very sweet kids in our neighborhood and they include him and are gentle with him. He's gotten to jump in the leaves with them and play ball with them. He likes to play in the dirt, eat the dirt, wear the dirt and pick up rocks... just like daddy. (umm... let's change that. Daddy likes to pick up rocks and play in the dirt. I don't think he likes to eat dirt!)

He also loves to sing. He can sing Happy Birthday. He sings, "Happy to you. Happy to you... " over and over and over... He also loves the wheels on the bus. He does the actions for round and round, and then he wants to do the verses "The babies on the bus go waah, waah, waah. The mommies on the bus go, shh. shh. shh." He does the waah, waah, and then puts his finger on his mouth to do shh! He also tries to sing Baa, baa, black sheep... which goes "Baa, baa, baa, sheep, yes sir, yes sir" and his all time favorite, "Jesus loves me."

He loves to dance too. He likes to watch the video of Grandma's church choir and clap along. The other day, he saw Mariah Carey on TV and he was swaying with his arms over his head to her music.

He's also started saying short sentences. The first one was, "I pooped." (lovely) and now he says, "I want... (fish, apple juice, etc). " It's nice that he can communicate his needs. If we don't understand him, he'll try and just do it himself. This is not so helpful when he opens the pantry and helps himself to goldfish!

He loves to go to church. He gets so excited when we get into the parking lot. He gets to go on Sunday mornings and Wednesday mornings now. He loves his teacher, "Mr. Don". He loves to play in the playhouse in Sunday school and go down the slide.

He also loves to play with "Neeeck" (Nick) and "Al-la-la" (Alex). He loves going to Grandma and Grandpas and especially loves jumping on the trampoline.

I can't wait to see how much he changes in the next few months. He's been developing so quickly lately. He is a sweet, busy, active, independent little guy. I think he'll be a great big brother, too!