17 Months Old!

Can it be?  Adelyn is already 17 months old!

She is getting to be so much more a little girl and so much less my baby girl.  Now that she has got walking down solid, she is back to working on talking.  She has learned to make many animal sounds.  She has also learned many names of family members... she will randomly call out names through the day, and she prays for everyone by name at night.  So sweet.  Some days, she will point at everything wanting to be told the word for whatever it is.  She is just the happiest baby - oops, little girl!  She can seriously concentrate, but she is so full of joy about everything.  

Some of her favorite things at 17 months: yogurt (she asks for this at every meal), playing on Mommy and Daddy's bed on weekend sleep-in mornings, sleeping (seriously, she sleeps at least 13-14 hours every night without waking and takes two small naps (1 hour-ish) every day), playing with anything musical - especially her drums and the xylophone, making animal noises (especially the pig, which by far makes us laugh the most), gummy bears, taking a bath, playing with Lucy (Lucy makes her laugh!), giving kisses, touching her bellybutton (and mine - she will pull up my shirt and say "be-be" and kiss - so cute because it sounds like she's saying "baby" and then kissing the right spot), talking on skype (Uncle Mike is hands down her favorite, with Papa John a close second), reading books, and listening to any kind of music, which makes her dance!

We love you little girl!