17 Months

How did my Tyler get to be 17 months old?  Of course he will always be my baby, but really he is turning into a little boy now.  I wish I could bottle him up like this!  Stuff he is up to:

• Flirtatious winking at everyone, which is really blinking...even cuter!
• Lots of motor boat noises.  Bbbbbbbb is his favorite sound.
• Obsessed with balloons...and trying to say it comes out like: Bbbbbbbbbaaaallooooo
• Also likes the word ball.  Tries to say juice, Pop-Pop, down.  Growls to imitate lion noises.
• Hitting his sister all the time when frustrated or she invades his space the least little bit.  Already?! Need to get the pack-n-play set up for time outs downstairs...
• The kitchen stool - it's one of the tall ones and he has taken his share of spills off it.  It helps him see lots of things and get into lots of kitchen drawers!
• Sliding - sister takes him down the tulip slide in our backyard and it is soooo sweet to see them come shooting out the end of it, giggling with wild abandon.
• Getting pickier - he used to eat everything and he has already figured out how to work the food system to get the stuff he wants the most.  Ack.
• Still crying for church drop-offs, transition to babysitters, even transition from mommy to daddy sometimes.  But unlike big sister, who would cry and scream for hours, he gets over it pretty quickly.  I have never had to be paged out of the church service.  Can't even count how often it happened with big sister!
• Getting into the pretzels.  PopPop's fault....