The Moss Family: 17 Months Old

July 22, 2014
21.2 lbs
size 3 diapers
size 12 month clothing

This past month has been really fun with Brooklyn, her personality just continues to blossom as she continues to learn and understand more. One of my favorite things from this past month is that she recognizes Jesus in pictures and can say His name. At our church building there are a ton of pictures of Christ along all of the hallways and so one Sunday I was in the hall with her and just started to point out Jesus in all the pictures and by the third picture she could point Him out and say His name. It was so cool and it just makes me think that she might still remember Him. She is also now saying out, bath, baby, kitty, ball, and says hop hop for bunny rabbit. She can climb down from the couch and any chairs safely and is so close to being able to climb up onto the couch by herself. She still loves bath time and will drop anything and everything when we tell her it is time for a bath. She loves to blow kisses and wave at everyone. When we walk into the gym she just starts waving and when we leave she blows kisses at everyone. She has really gotten into her stuffed animals and baby doll this month. She will try to feed them her food and give them drinks from her sippy cup. She also will lay them down and try to put a diaper on them. She likes to wrap the baby up in the blanket but if she can't find the blanket she will grab a dish towel. She has been doing better this month with eating her vegetables. She absolutely loves stir fry veggies and frozen green beans. Her favorite food is still fruit of any kind, she recently tried a plum for the first time and loved it. if I let her she would live off of fruit. She got in one new tooth this month so she is up to 10.

She still loves to read and we have started going to story time at the library most Thursday mornings. We always check out 5 or 6 books so that we can have a few new ones to read at home. She still loves to dance and will stop what she is doing to shake her groove thing whenever music comes on. One day at the gym I went to pick her up from the child watch and they were having a dance party with the older kids, but she of course had to join them and she was going to town. I just stood there and watched for a few minutes, it was too dang cute. We will definitely be getting her into dance class as soon as possible. She is totally gluds to her burp clothe, it just keeps getting worse. She knows where I keep them and if she wants one she will just go stand at the closet door until I grab one from her. If she is playing she forgets about it. She always has one when we go into the gym but they say she forgets about it within a few minutes, so that's good I guess. I swear someday she will just have it when she sleeps, but man is it convenient to be able to give it to her and know she will calm down and be content. I guess I will have to suck it up sometime soon and just do it. She has thrown a few more tantrums this month, luckily not in public places. Man when she gets pissed, she gets pissed. One time Craig took a crayon from her because she brought out to the living room and she gave him the nastiest look ever and refused to go to him or even look at him for like 20 minutes. Luckily she forgives fairly quickly and totally forgets about it. If it is just me and her at home and I do something she doesn't like she will stomp off down the hallway to the laundry room for a minute and then will come grab a burp clothe and then will finally come to me. Oh the joys of toddlers. She has also started squealing and happy screaming at a lot of different things, it is so cute and you can't help but laugh. She gets so excited when Craig gets home in the evening. She can hear when he pulls up and she automatically points to the garage door and says "daddy" and when he walks in she runs to him and then runs away and then runs back and gives him a kiss. Same routine every night but it is so cute to watch.