17 Months

God knows if anyone's even checking this for updates anymore, but we're still here. I finally closed on my apartment and Jack and I moved to a rental apartment a block away from the old place. I was looking at the pictures from the last time I posted (3 MONTHS ago!) and it's like Jack was a little baby and now he's totally a kid.

He is starting to "talk" but there aren't many words that are recognizable to anyone but me and Leeann (his nanny). "Buh" could mean Button if we're on the elevator, Bus if we're looking out the window, or Box if we come home to find a package at our door. Leeann brought him over her son's old toy guitar and he is absolutely obsessed with it. He wants it in the bath and in his bed and on the dinner table while he's eating, and when I try to take it away - even just to rest it against the wall of the bathroom while he's in the tub - he throws an absolute fit! Screaming, crying, throwing himself on the floor, it's quite a sight to behold.

Anyway, we're a household in flux, with my job(s) still kind of screwy and this question of moving to the suburbs looming large over my head. I've never felt so indecisive in my life, and it's beginning to drive me a bit insane. But, it's the week before Christmas, so no time to dwell on life decisions! Here's some pics of Jack from the last little while, and rest assured I've put Update the Blog on my new year's resolution list, among many many other things.

First, a video of Jack finding his Papa in a book:

And here, Jack gets excited by his very own chair, courtesy of Grandma: