17 months young

Finley turned 17 months young yesterday (8/22/11) and I can't get over how fast time is flying! I am loving this age although it can be challenging at times. It is so neat that she can really interact and communicate with us. She has fallen in LOVE with books and would literally read them a ALL DAY. It absolutely melts my heart when she grabs a book (booch as she calls them) and crawls in my laps, we read and then repeat. One of her favorite books is called "Lets go to the Farm" and it has helped her learn animal sounds. She knows what a dog, pig, duck, chicken and cow say. We are working on more animals. She is still a great eater, thank goodness! For breakfast she will typically have plain cheerios, cheese toast, fruit, yogurt...for lunch she likes chicken nuggets, or a grilled cheese sand which with fruit or a veggie...and for dinner she usually eats whatever B and I are eating. Her absolute favorite is still strawberries (beeerries to her). Finley is getting really good at using a spoon and a fork and she gets really excited when she gets the hang of it. We try not to let her watch too much TV but when she does she loves Yo Gabba Gabba and Dora the Explorer. She calls Dora, Door. She loves to play outside so we have gotten a ton of use out of the inflatable pools and her massive container of bubbles (or beees to her)this summer. We also take many trips to the park that is just up the street in our cool ride (Bike with the baby seat). Finley is sleeping really well. She goes down around 8:00 or 8:30 and sleeps through the night until 7:00-7:30 and sometimes even later. This morning our little angle slept until 9:00! I guess her Dr. appointment and shots wore her out yesterday. She had a great appointment but she is still tall and skinny...she is 31 inches tall and weighs just over 21 lbs. But she is perfectly healthy and the Dr. even said he was impressed with her language development. Probably because she said baseball and gamecock for him. I think it is time to enroll her in a toddler gym class because she did a roll all by herself a couple of days ago! Plus she has a ton of energy to burn. Ha! She constantly says "up" and climbs on the couch then says "down" and climbs back down then does it all over again. Finley's sense of humor is really starting to come out and she likes to play peek-a-boo and hide and seek. She is still the most social baby around. We can't go anywhere with out her tell everyone Hi, Bye-Bye, and giving out hugs. It's the cutest thing in the world. She can also point out her body parts...eyes, nose, mouth/teeth, ears, big belly, legs, feet toes. She has been doing a lot of this stuff for a while but I'm just now sitting down to blog about about. Ha! We absolutely adore or sweet baby girl and want to savor every moment with her. What a blessing for the Lord above she is!