17 Months Old

Jonathan is very active. He's steady on his feet and he chases his sisters all over the house. He runs from room to room and scoots up and down the steps.

He is getting to be much more responsive. He doesn't exactly talk, but he can make a few sounds and carry on short "conversations" with Mommy and Daddy. He says "Thank you" when we hand him food or a sippy cup, he knows the sounds that some animals make, and he is just beginning to make the "I don't know" gesture (arms apart, hands upturned) when he can't find something. He also says "bye bye!" and runs to the door if he thinks anyone is going anywhere.

He loves to carry telephones all over the house. He comes down in the morning and grabs the cordless phone off the charger. He looks for our cell phones and always wants to hold them when we go for rides in the car. He pushes the buttons and holds them up to his ear, and offers them to Mommy and Daddy with a little grunt or squeak that sounds like a question -- "You want?" Something like that, anyway. Actually, he loves anything electronic, anything that beeps, and gets quite nasty sometimes if anyone tries to take something like that away from him.