Baby Mac at 17 months

My littlest boy is becoming a big boy more and more every day.  

Racing with his brothers from one end of the house to the other.  

Mac's vocabulary has been growing lately.  Some of his favorite words are mama, dada, ball, car, rock, cheese-stick, o-plane (airplane), and boon (balloon).  He has several others and I pick up on new ones every couple of days.  

Baby Mac in the lead!  What a rascal!  

He also started saying one sentence a couple of weeks ago: It's a ball.  He would say this one sentence every day, whenever he'd pick up a ball.  And if he ever said any other sentence I could not understand it.  Just yesterday he added a new one: It's a rock.  And then this morning I am pretty sure I heard: I see a ball.  

They each get a wheeled toy like the lawn mower, shopping cart, and other baby-push toy and race around the living room.  They also pretend to be vacuum trucks while I am vacuuming :)

Some nights after James and Henry get tucked in, I take Mac to my room and we play on my bed before he gets his bedtime nursing.  He is fascinated by the cluster of family pictures above our bed.  There are pictures of Mike and me, some of all 3 boys, and one of all 5 of us.  

He adores his daddy and brothers.  

Last night I heard him saying James' and Henry's names for the first time while he pointed at their pictures!  I had been waiting for this moment for months.  When he pointed at James he said "Gee" and when he pointed at Henry it sounded like "Hidy."  

He can be picky about certain textures, but he's broadening his tastes a little bit.  He LOVES black beans (which is what is covering his face).  Yesterday he decided that he finally likes cuties and has been inhaling them ever since.

He is getting so big.  I used to wear him in the wrap to rock him to sleep for his naps, but he is so big that it has become difficult for me.  So we started a new routine last week where we go to his room and have a diaper change, a story (his current fave is Brown Bear, Brown Bear) and then I sing him 2 or 3 songs while rocking him, before being laid in his crib.  He took to this new routine so easily and now he even starts reaching for his crib to lay down before the song is done (possibly due to the fact that my singing voice leaves a little to be desired?).  

Such a big boy doing big-boy things and then he falls asleep in his high chair with food still in his mouth.  Well, I guess all that big boy activity wears a little one out :)  

Still my Baby Mac!