Happy 17th month Kaylee!

Kaylee is getting to be so funny! She is all the sudden doing real funny things like she's putting on a show. The other day she walked, marched and strutted back and forth across the room for us for about 30 minutes, all the while jargoning and making lots of noise. She added a new antic to her show every few minutes, marching for a few laps, then walking with her face to the ceiling/hands behind her head, then carrying a ball and so on...She reminds me of Eric when she's doing this because he is so funny. She gets it from him.

In the bath tub last night she was very excitedly telling a story with gesticulations and all. Splashing and squealing - she's so dang cute!

She seems congitively more aware of her surroundings, like I said she's been noticing planes in the air, screaming kids in the neighborhood, barks from distant dogs while inside. She asks me all the time if she can "color." She talks about coloring while she's eating because she can't wait to go back to it. Maybe she's inherited some of her artistic side from my side of the family.

She's been opening her mouth for me to brush her teeth, whereas before she cried the whole time like it was torture.

She will not sit in her highchair and now sits on a phonebook on the chair. She is currently in love with green beans, which we think is pretty awesome. Eric's had a good influence with that and pushing it as a "nummy" vegetable.

New words are becoming too difficult to count. She repeats a lot of words said by those around her now. She has moved onto not just pointing out cars but also "trucks" in the neighborhood though I don't think she necessarily really understand the distinction. She has said Becky, Krissy, Matt, Nina and Rebecca now. She loves to stand by the window and call out "Annnnnnn del, Annnnn...del" to the dog across the street (Angel). It's the cutest!

Kaylee has started throwing objects now and throwing a ball back and forth. She can now stack about 4-5 blocks on top of each other. She's interested in puzzles and plays with them but can't exactly do them yet.

I think that a lot of dance moves have probably been invented as "novel" by babies dancing in front of parents. I think the deep knee squats she's doing remind me of moves I see rappers doing on stage. Also the pant leg halfway up one calf trend reminds me of the haphazard dress of the toddler. She also walks the room in a very funny manner, it resembles a swagger (picture the whole body being moved by the motion of the shoulders) I've seen rappers do as well.