17 Months

Dear Lily,
Each month with you just gets crazier and funner Lily! This past month you've become a real ham! You love to laugh and make people laugh by making funny faces and nibbling on toes! You've really perfected what we lovingly call your mad scientist laugh. You can sometimes just break out in the huge laugh that makes everyone around you smile!

You've also learned to be very polite this month. Every time you give us something, or we give you something, you will say "thank you". You've also started saying please when you want something too! It's so nice to see you being so polite! Then just as I'm getting smug that I've taught my daughter to be little miss manners, you'll remind me you're still a toddler by throwing your dinner off the table! (and breaking out into your mad scientist laugh of course!)


This past month you've grown a few more teeth. Now the count is up to 13 with one more just below the surface. You've got 4 in the top front, 4 on the bottom front, and 4 molars (those were hard coming in for you!). And on your 17 month birthday I noticed that one of you're canines had popped through without me even knowing you were teething those. We knew you're 4th molar was coming in at the same time, but you wouldn't let us see the rest of your mouth, so we missed that one coming in entirely! Your other canine on the top is also just under the surface, and should be popping through any day now. Good thing you love to brush your teeth! We can't brush our teeth without you demanding to brush yours too!

As I've said before on the blog, your vocabulary is really starting to blossom this month. You're learning new words faster than I can record them now! New to the list are toes, mouth, nose, belly, eat, water, please, bottle, flower, teeth, cold and Ouija. I'm sure I am forgetting a few too. And of course, most of these would only be understood by Mommy and Daddy...but we know what you mean. For example, for nose you say "no" with the "o" sound drawn out, and pointing to your nose. Mouth is "Maw", while pointing to your mouth. You're also starting to try to copy me when I say words. That's how you learned flower the other day. We were stilling looking through a garden catalog together, and I was pointing out the flowers to you, and you immediately tried to say it with me!


"The Itsy Bitsy Spider" is still you're favorite song. You always give up a round of applause when we sing it to you. You also love "Head, Shoulders. Knees, and Toes" and "Patty Cake". Anything with finger play that you can try to follow along with really! I've also caught you trying to sing yourself lately. The other night in bed I was humming to you, and when I stopped you continued your own song by yourself. I can't wait until we can sing together!

You've become really interested in baby dolls this month. You love to push them around the house in your baby stroller, and put them to bed in your dolls cradle. I've spied you a few times even offering your binky to your favorite doll! Though that doesn't surprise me... you love to share your binky with Daddy and me, and the cats!


You continue to be our sweet little girl who loves to give hugs and kisses! We are so proud of how fast you are growing and learning! I can't wait to see what the next month holds for us! We love you Lily!!

Love,
Mommy