Cutler 17 month update

I started typing this back when Cutler was turning 16 months. He turned 17 months a few days ago! 

*Sorry Cutler... your updates are probably not as often as your sister's were. I do have several notes written about you each month and especially at one year. They just haven't made it on here yet! I wanted to go ahead and do this one though while it's fresh! 

Here's a little bit about Cutler at 17 months:

• At the end of June, he was 27 lbs. by our scale at home. It's now mid-July and Daddy weighed him yesterday and he was a little over 28 lbs. He's tall too. Daddy measured him the other day and he was 33 inches.  He's just a big boy! In May at his 15 month visit, he was 25 lbs. 12.2 oz. (87%), 32.5 in. (91%) and his head was 18.9 in. (82%).
• He has pretty much outgrown all of his 18 month shirts. They've all gotten too short and his belly has started hanging out the bottom. He could wear 24 month, but I just bought several 2T shirts as well because in some, he needs the length. He can wear 24 month shorts and even still 18 month.
• I would say he's a size 5 shoe and not too far from being a 6. He's wore a size 5 Nike for a while and he's outgrew them but they run small. I bought him two new size 6 shoes recently. He has just now gotten to the point that he will wear shoes for me. 
• He wears size 5 diapers and size 6 diapers at night.
• He has a mouth full of teeth. His teeth came in a lot quicker than his sister. On June 25th, I noticed his 15 tooth. 
• He is finally walking all over the place. June 4th, he took about 3 steps in the kitchen. The Mcclintics were at the house and Chuck and I saw it and we both got excited! June 6th he took about 4 steps while we were over at Molly's house. Then that night, he kept trying and was taking about 5 or 6. The next day when Dede was at the house, he walked up the road holding her hand and never sit down for a break. He walked so much that he got a little blister on his foot. Those shoes have since been sold! He seemed to regress a little and resort to his mowgli crawl for a bit. Then around the first of July, he decided to take off again. I would say he was officially a walker at 17 months. Now he can walk from one side of the room to the other. Sometimes he still does his little mowgli crawl though. He is so fast when he does it. I think that's a big reason he didn't care to walk for so long! He didn't really need to. With his little mowgli crawl, we at least had a heads up if he was doing something because you could hear his little pitter patter! 
• He gives kisses. Sometimes its full blown open mouth. Other times, he just leans into you.
• I used to think Kinley has the biggest smile. His is just as big. His has a little mischief to it. He looks like trouble!
• He loves to clap for himself and say "Yay!"
• In a way, he seems so much more grown up than Kinley did at this age. Kinley actually still nursed at nap and bedtime at 17 months. He hasn't nursed since he was about 9 months. With his mouthful of teeth and his size, I can't imagine nursing him!
• He still takes a bottle of milk at nap time and bedtime. He can drink his water out of any sippy cup you give him, I just haven't really pushed him to take his milk out of a cup instead of a bottle yet. I still rock him at nap time and bedtime too. I don't plan on stopping. 
• He is attached to his paci. 
• He is also super attached to a little blue blanket. It's a soft, Aden and Anais blanket. If you walk by it, he whines for it and reaches for it. He sometimes carries it around the house. I've bought an extra!
• He sleeps in a Halo sleepsack still. We also turn his sound machine on. As long as he has his sleepsack, paci, blanket and sound machine, he's usually good. He just recently started liking the projector on his sound machine. I turn it on to the fish and he points up and says "ish." I usually turn it off before he goes to sleep though because I don't want him to get like Kinley. She has to have hers on to sleep still!
• He sleeps so good! He is down to one nap a day and has been for several months down. He usually takes his one nap around 11:30 or so and sleeps for a couple hours. He usually goes to bed for the night around 7:30 and sleeps until the next morning at around 7:30.
• He is strong. He will literally push barstools and chairs around the house like he's working out and pushing a sled. 
• He doesn't really play with toys much. He just chases me around the house and gets into stuff. He likes to throw his leg over the couch and act like he's about to go over. He likes to unplug the alarm system and has messed it up. He likes to stand up on the coffee table or fireplace and act like he's about to jump. He likes to go for the dog food and water. He likes to open the door out to the garage. He became so obsessed we have to keep it locked at all times. For a while, he always went for the heater in his room and the dog cage. He also has a thing for the alarm and nail outside of his sister's room. He likes to unplug both of their nightlights. He also likes to pull his camera down in his room. 
• Our kitchen floor is usually always full of tupperware, pots and pans or something that he's dumped out of the pantry. 
• If he's hungry, which he usually is, you can find him trying to get food out of the pantry or the fridge. He will pretty much eat everything. He likes eggs, muffins, pigs in a blanket. Since he turned 1, he's been able to eat two blueberry muffins and two pigs in a blanket from the donut store. He eats as much as his sister. He also eats a whole chicken patty. He likes beef hot dogs, chicken, hamburgers, strawberries, bananas, grapes, cheese, guacamole, tortilla, macaroni, green beans, mashed potatoes. He'll eat a whole entire junior burger from Jucy's, Whataburger or McDonald's. He even ate dorito casserole the other day. Apples and yogurt are his go-tos that he grabs and brings me. He isn't a fan of watermelon or cantaloupe. Although the things he doesn't like are few and far between, if he doesn't like something, he will literally eject it.
• He didn't like sweet stuff for a while but has started a little. He tried some of Kinley's chocolate chip cookie the other day and liked it and drank a little tea the other day. Before that, he would spit it out. He'll still spit out apple juice. He had his first popsicle the other day because his sister was having one, and it brought a big grin to his face.
• He bathes with Kinley most of the time. Every once in a while, I put them both in the shower with me. He likes for water to hit him in the face.
• He loves to swim in the pool and walk in/fall in. 
• He has recently became interested in the dogs. He tries to chase Lucky around and sometimes grabs Lucky. Lucky is so old, I have to watch it because I'll catch Lucky growling at him. He tries to say Alex's name. You can make out the "A" when he says it. 
• We babysat the neighbors fish while they were out of town and besides "Mama" and "Dada," "Ish" became one of his first words. 
• He doesn't talk a lot but the doctor said a lot of boys aren't quite as verbal as girls. Besides, the words above, he'll say "Moo" and that's it. 
• We are still working on body parts but he's not quite there yet. Every once in a while he'll show me where his nose is but it's not consistent yet.
• If he wakes up before Kinley, he runs to her room, opens her door and tries to wake her up. One day she was in our bed and he ran in there and made it to her bed. You could hear him giggling because he thought he had gotten away with something. 
• If Colt works nights and is sleeping, he will not leave the bedroom door alone! I've had to start locking it to keep him out.
• I said he doesn't really play with toys. He's just now starting to get a little attention span. He will do the little shapes that you put in the box. He just started wanting to do his wooden puzzles. We've done mainly the shape and farm one. He will finally make it through a page or two of a book. He likes the "That's not my dog" book best so far I think. He's not quite to the point of finding the dog in the "Find my Puppy" book. He will finally just in the past week or two sit still long enough to watch a show for a couple minutes. He'll at least make it through it the intro and dance a little! 
• He likes to dance. If he hears a beat, he'll start moving his little body whether he's on the floor, in his highchair, wherever he is. If he hears me say "Alexa," he looks and waits for the music to start!
• He poops more than any baby I know. Kinley and I call him a pooping machine. 
• He likes to play peek a boo under the bathroom cabinet and pop the cabinet doors open. 
• He'll hold a remote, phone or even his baby monitor up to his ear like he's talking on the phone. 
• He LOVES lights. He wants to flip the switch every time we walk by one. He always opens his mouth like he's so shocked when he turns it on and off. 
• His "shocked" face is the cutest. He holds his mouth open and his eyes get so wide!
• He makes car noises for anything that goes. 
• He's imitated us for a long time now.
• We have a little bath book and around April, he started interacting and scrubbing it with a wash rag when it says to.
• He has had more injuries than his sister ever has. We of course had the horrible accident of him falling off the kitchen counter, but in addition to that, he has hit his head, smashed his finger or had a bloody nose pretty much every day, at least weekly! He has flipped off a bed, fell off his sister's picnic table, slammed his finger in cabinets, drank bath and body works... you name it, he's done it!
• He's a climber. Sometimes I think it's easier to not be home with him because if we are out and about, I can contain him in a carseat or a stroller and get a break. If we're at home, I feel like I'm chasing him down trying to keep him from hurting himself.
• He's had three haircuts now I think. Besides the mini haircut his Grandma gave him at the house at 12 months, he had his first haircut with Ms. Joanna at Adventure Cuts in April when he was 14 months.
• He is OBSESSED with brushing his teeth now. If it's quite, he's up on the stool in the bathroom with a toothbrush in one hand and toothpaste in the other waiting.
• He always wants a cup that matches his sisters. 
• It seems like he tends to do things with his left hand. 
• He twists his tongue to one side all the time for some reason. 
• When he's ready for bed at night, he's ready. I'll tell him to say night, night and he starts waving. 
• If Kinley is sitting in my lap, he get's jealous and will come and try to squeeze in my lap between us!
• He loves his Daddy. I think he gives his daddy bigger hugs and snuggles than he does me!

Oh sweet boy, you keep us on your toes and give us a run for our money! I think you are definitely going to be all boy. We love you so much!