April 2, 2007

Nathan is 17 months old now. In the past few weeks, he is showing amazing signs of thinking and comprehension. If you ask him to "get his shoes," he knows which are his and will retrieve them for you. Every animal is a dog to him - squirrel, lion, horse - it doesn't matter. He is starting to communicate more with us, although still only has about 5 words - Andy, Dada, more, dog, and hello.

Nathan likes to push the buttons of his friends and family - we are trying to teach him that hitting isn't very nice, but he seems to enjoy doing it anyway. He seems to like the negative attention that he receives - something for us to work on with him.

Nathan and Andy still get along very well - at least most of the time. Nathan seems to like playing with Andy - I think it is unusual for a child his age to play with another child, but perhaps it is the older sibling influence.