17 months

Aww sweet Alannah girl - where has the time gone? I cannot believe you are already 17 months old! You are such a little bundle of joy and love.

At 17 months you:

~ have 4 center bottom teeth, 4 center top teeth and 2 top molars

~walk, almost run, constantly- very steady on your feet

~LOVE being outside

~love the park, but hate the swing

(you loved them last year, but have cried "up" every time I have tried this year)

~sleep wonderfully through the night- at least 12 hours.

~are working on going down to 1 nap a day,

though about 3-4 days a week we still sneak a short morning nap in

~you babble often, talking to us or yourself but your real words vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds daily.

~ you love putting "pretties" in your hair- you hardly have enough to clip but you are so proud of a barrette in your hair

~you love to sit on the couch and read while I am reading. You will go get a book and come over and say "up" and then sit there and read aloud to yourself.

~you love mimicking the boys in coloring, playing with trucks or animals

~you can point quite well to express your wants and needs if we don't understand the words

~you love horses and dogs and they both have their own "sound" when you see one

~Vocabulary as I can think of it- up, yes, no, mama, da, bye-bye, hello, cheese, flower, hat.......