17 months

After much consideration, and strong urges toward laziness, I decided to go ahead and do a 17 month post. Mostly because I'm kind of OCD, and I felt uncomfortable thinking about skipping a month.

Plus this month has been pretty exciting because Lilly's speaking abilities have skyrocketed! From just a few words and no sounds, she now seems to learn a new word everyday (~40 that I've documented), does about 10 animal noises, and has acquired a couple other noises, like her favorite, "choo choo!" 

A few other things about Lilly:

• OBSESSED with bubbles. (She can blow them herself!)
• Very sensitive to sounds, especially the birds and dogs around our house. She will say "burd!" or "dah!" and I'll wonder what she's talking about, and then I'll hear it. It's amazing what I'm so used to tuning out!
• Loves holding hands! She finds this to be a very useful tool to drag someone to exactly where she wants them.
• LOVES books. Her attention span has already outgrown mine.
• Loves watching Sesame Street music videos (w/guests like Will. I. Am., Feist, Elvis Costello, Ok Go, etc. I enjoy them, too!). Also enjoys listening to me sing and participating in nursery rhymes and other fun songs (especially "No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed"). 
• Recently discovered JUICE, and seems to think she can live on orange juice alone.
• Words she says: hi, bye, mama, dada, yes, no, baby, bubbles, waffle, this, that, in there, up, bath, water (wawa), car, grass, pigs, fish, bird, dog, juice, book, boots, blocks, tree, outside, shoes, ouch, bugs, please, more, down, all done, milk, rice, slide, again, eyes, ears, nose
• Noises she makes: car, truck, train, owl, dog, cat, horse, bird, cow, lion/tiger, pig, rooster, bear, elephant (with accompanying arm motion)

Trying on Dad's shoes, and blowing bubbles with her
awesome no-spill bubble container from Gma and Gpa Berbert.

Drew captured our tree in this bubble!

Insisting that the baseball glove she got from
her Aunt for Easter is a hat.

Playing around at the park

Turning the papasan chair into a fort

Pretty Easter girl!

Practicing walking in heels:
(She picked them out of my closet herself)