HAPPY SEVENTEEN(ISH) MONTH "BIRTHDAY" CHARLOTTE AND JACOB

Charlotte and Jacob 17 months old

Hooray for 17 months

Once again I'm horribly delayed in posting an update. We have a hospital-wide float holiday today (I love random June long weekends) and the kids are down for their morning nap so I decided I no longer had an excuse to procrastinate. Charlotte and Jacob continue to change everyday. We are only a few days away from their 17.5 month "birthday" (how the heck did that happen?) so it's time for their monthly round up. From May 1 to June 11 we have seen Charlotte and Jacob:

• Walk independently: Both are now walking independently. No more crawling in this house. They love their new found feet and can't get enough of walking around the house, outside, in the tub and around their cribs! 
• Produce more words: In addition to the words they've learned over the past few months new ones include - Jacob: help, more, uppey, gone, bear, car, gas (which actually means grass) and nana (banana). Charlotte: GG (great-grandma), mo (which means more), and up 
• Vast understanding of what we say: Although they may not communicate back to us in sentences or by using lots of words both Charlotte and Jacob have a vast understanding of what's going on around them and of what we say. If we ask them to bring us a book they will or if we say please clean up your shoes - they'll take their shoes to the drawer near our front door and put them in there. It really is amazing to see just how much they are absorbing. 
• Continue their love solid food: Their new fav food is corn on the cob. They are really good at eating the corn off the cob and usually finished 95% of it. Other fav's include strawberries, blueberries, bananas, mini-go yogurt (by them self), chicken burgers and ketchup...lots and lots of ketchup
• New fav commercials: Marineland - Friendship Cove with the Whales and Cavalia's Odyesso (horse show)
• Activities outside of the house: Lots of park time and walks, swims in their Mr. Turtle Pool, music, drop-in play at the Community Centre and play dates with Ethan, Jayden and Wesley.