Fayed at 17 Months

Fayed's 17th month is already coming to an end! He's continuing to grow and change and become a little boy more and more every day. He's about 33" tall, and still skinny. This month has been a little more challenging; Fayed is not quite as "helpful" as he was a couple months ago, and he's started hitting, throwing things, and having more tantrums than before. We're working on it. When Fayed knows he did something bad and we're mad at him, he goes and gives us a big kiss right away, so that makes it hard to follow through with disciplining him! He refuses to sit in his high chair most of the time, so that makes it even harder to get food into him, so we have had to be creative with that. He is getting better in the carseat, though! One day his cousin Arissa came over, and he enjoyed sitting and rocking in the infant car seat with his grandma, so now every time we get into the car, he can't wait to get into his own car seat and even helps with the buckles (which is a welcome change from having to wrestle him screaming and crying into it every time!). His hair has finally grown back to a good length, and he is such a cutie! The weather warmed up for a week or so but it's gotten cold again, so we're still waiting to get outside regularly. When we do go outside, Fayed enjoys playing with his toy trucks, drawing with chalk, and pushing around the shovel or rake. In the house, his favorite toys are his toy phone, balls, a pop-up Disney character toy, and a few favorite books he likes me to read over and over; he'd still rather play with Mama or Baba than toys any day though!