Blog | 17 Months
Our little Sweet Pea celebrated her 17-month birthday in Florida Gator style! (And the Gators were kind enough to rout Charleston Southern as expected).
She is growing and changing so fast, it is getting hard to keep up (literally and figuratively)! She still likes to spend as little time as possible on the changing pad, so we generally take care of diapers quickly and then move her to the floor to get her dressed. This generally results in “the clothing escapades.” All this doesn’t take much time, and it is really quite fun – lots of giggles and hide-and-seek/peek-a-boo games. First, the pants, bottoms, or in this case, adorable UF panties go on.
Then, we generally move onto another part of the house to put on her top (at times, this includes the chase around the living room with her top half on and half off). And then to still another spot to put on socks and shoes (yes, this is another UF outfit – she wore it the day before the big opening day game).
Brianna’s vocabulary seemingly changes daily. In addition to new words (e.g., snacks (nax), yogurt (gogur), boo-boo (depending on context, either means boo-boo or blueberries), gator (goo-goo), soap (do), frittata (eetata), cookie (coo-coo), car, etc.), she also has some phrases (e.g., what’s that (ishat), this is (ishis), big pooh (for her big Pooh Bear), Mommy go, bye-bye meow, etc. She is also starting to move faster on her feet, which has resulted in many falls and a seemingly permanent scrape on one or both knees at any given time (look closely at her right knee in picture below).
She eats really well still and has three new teeth (working on a fourth, which will bring her total up to 16 teeth). We have started introducing more new foods and have started feeding her some of our “normal” food. She loves spaghetti (so far any variation will do), smoothies, and frittata in addition to the old favorites of peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, yogurt, yogurt puffs, crackers, and cheese. In general, though, her favorite thing is whatever I am eating. As you can see below, I took a smoothie to the park last week, and she drank (I kid you not) almost half, and refused to let go even to climb the stairs! So much for Mommy’s lunch…
She loves animals and loves making her animal sounds, but generally she wants all animals (except her kitties) to keep their distance. Meaning, she loves to say pup-pup, and point at the pup-pup, and clap at the pup-pup, but she does NOT want the pup-pup within 20 feet of her, even the tiny ones.
This last picture I included because I just loved her expression – don’t mess with her Bla Bla!
