Hi baby girl you are now slightly over 17 months! I used to write a monthly update in your baby book but the spaces available only went up to 12 months, so since you have turned one year old, I have felt the need to write on here more often. Mostly because, you NEVER SLOW DOWN! You just keep learning more and more, and keep doing more and more, it is so crazy! I would probably have to do weekly updates to keep up completely, that is just not possible what with chasing you around all day :P. You still love to climb on everything, and you still really love to jump around on the bed. We have started a daily ritual of playing ring-around-the-rosie there, which you can sing basically all by yourself. You continue to sing lots and lots of songs with me (pretty much anything I sing). Twinkle Twinkle you know all by yourself, you know most of "Rain, Rain, Go Away" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and you are getting really close to the Whole ABC's. You will usually stop around Q and then if I say R, S you can start back up again and say the rest! You love little nursery rhymes too. At first it started with an obsession with Hey Diddle Diddle and Humpty Dumpty, which I'm sure I have wrote about (at least I hope I did), but now you really like all of them in our books and love to try to say them with me. Of course none of this is perfect English, but it is definitely recognizable! You can count to 10 with someone and you have even done it by yourself at least once. Plus you know all of "one, two, buckle my shoe..." and can say it all without any help! You also love to try say some of our shorter rhyming books when I read those, as well. For example, Dr. Suess' ABCs and All the World, which you call "All World". You are using two word phrases quite a bit now, and some three word phrases. You will also just say words with pauses in between but they are in sequence so it's like a pre-sentance. Like the other day you said "hair" "mouth" "chin" because there was a hair suck to your chin and in your mouth. Maybe I'm easily amused but, stuff like that just amazes me! You know a few more colors including pink and white, and I pretty sure you know brown now too. AND you know "square" "circle" and "triangle"! I should also mention that it is hilarious to hear you say triangle ;) Oh and by the way, Rhinoceros is another one that is quite amusing! Oh my gosh I could go on and on all day about the number of words you know, it's incredible! Definitely over 100 probably closer to 150 or more. No joke. How is all this possible before 18 months of age? I don't know, I hardly believe it myself!
We have been doing a little better on getting you to drink cow's milk, a.k.a moo-moo milk around these parts, mostly by actually mooing when you drink it (oh the dignity you loose as a parent :P). And it's looking like most of the worrying we have been doing about you starting to get pickier about food was for nothing. You have been eating meats a bit better, we started doing cottage cheese and you like that fairly well, and you have been eating cheese and yogurt like a champ again! So basically I just wish you would eat eggs again and then I wouldn't complain at all!
I think night weaning/crib sleeping are on the horizon, but I'm trying to take it slow and not pressure myself or you too much.
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