Henry at 17 months

• Language skills are developing at a rapid pace and he tries new words almost every day. His cutest new word is "ham," which he pronounces "ahmmm," kind of like a French person. This word didn't come out of nowhere--we've been reading "Green Eggs and Ham" quite a bit lately, and one day last week he pointed at the book and said "ham" very clearly. He also picked up the word "goat" from Dr. Seuss.
• He's becoming even more militant about his wardrobe. We've all but given up trying to get him dressed in clothes that don't have a truck, train, animal, or some other cool design on the front, because he will throw a squirming, kicking hissy fit when we try. The only way we could get him into bed the other night was to put a truck t-shirt over his pyjamas. But if he likes what we've picked out, he'll happily stick his arms up to help us dress him. Luckily we've aquired a decent number of acceptable wardrobe pieces over the last few weeks, thanks to Henry's grandmas.
• We sing "The Wheels on the Bus" about a dozen times a day. He loves doing all the actions that go along with the song, especially the wipers going swish-swish-swish, the people going up and down, and of course, the wheels going round and round. In fact, he's adopted the arm rolling motion as his sign for bus and does it whenever he sees a bus. It's also his cue that he wants us to sing the song. All this action is hilarious. Unfortunately, still photos don't do it justice or I'd post a few examples.
• Sleep issues seem to have ironed themselves out. We had several heavenly weeks of him sleeping straight through from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., but he has a cough and runny nose right now so some disturbances are occurring again. So far, it's been a couple days of 11:30 p.m. wakings, which is totally manageable. Hopefully his cough won't get any worse and we'll be back to our undisturbed evenings and long sleeps.
• Henry has all his teeth now except the back molars. Some days he really enjoys brushing. Other days he won't let the toothbrush get near his mouth. He has a sign/ sound combination for tooth brushing.

Here he is doing the sign for "more." The sign he learned is different from ASL.