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.......

Easter pictures

This is me on the left and Alannah on the right, in the same dress, about the same age

(I thought it was rather funny that about half the ones we took of Alannah her hand was in her mouth and then when I pulled out my pictures I realized the best one of me has my hand in my mouth too!)

He is Risen!