Vlookup & count

Dear All,

I have attached one excel, Where Column B have Dates and Column C having month (Just by formatting the dates to show only month).

Now i have per-populated month list in column H having months. I want output in Column I as # of Contracts for that particular month, which is nothing but count of same months in Column C matched against Months in Column H.

(For ex. in Column I , Apr'14 should display 5 # of contracts)

Please Help. VLOOKUP is not working since Column C method of extracting months is not working and Column C & Column H months not matching.

Regards
Mohammad