There goes another month! Sheesh…this girl just keeps growing and changing before our very eyes. She’s 17 months old today! Here are some highlights from this past month:
- She’s obsessed with stairs and just wants to go up and down over and over again. Unfortunately for us, she still needs someone to hold her hand so that means we get quite a workout too.
- Language has really blossomed this month. She says following words now: gracias (thank you in Spanish), no, go-go (doggie in Mandarin – it’s also pretty close to saying Koa too), mama, dada, cheese, parque (park in Spanish), Yai (grandma in Thai), Ta (grandpa in Thai), and uncle. She’s also learned the sign for “fish”. She already knows how to say apple but now she will label it. Whenever she sees an apple, she’ll point and proudly yell “apple!”
- Janie’s really into shrugging her shoulders and moving her eyebrows up and down to people. She also pretends to wash her hands, face, and hair. She also likes to play with a lotion bottle by pretending to put some in her hand and then rub her hands and face. She also likes to sling a bag over her shoulder and put a phone to her ear. Hilarious.
- Her new dance move is to spin in circles.
- Janie is very proud of the fact that she can buckle the straps on her feeder seat and has been working on buckling the straps on her stroller and on Mirian’s double stroller too. I’m just glad she doesn’t know how to unbuckle yet.
- She’s able to identify her eyes, nose, mouth, ears, head, tummy (of course!), and feet.
- Janie ran in her very first race at Disneyland. It was hot, crowded, and only 100 meters but she finished and received a medal!
- Ankong and Ama took her to the Long Beach Aquarium for the first time.
- Janie is able to scoop yogurt or oatmeal with a spoon and most of it actually makes it into her mouth. She’s also really gotten into dipping her food into sauces, dips, and anything else that comes in a little container.
- She’s also grown into Size 5 shoes so we got her a bunch of new kicks this past month.
- The biggest milestone this month is transitioning from a bottle to a straw cup for her milk. It was much easier than I expected. Now if only we could figure out how to get her off the pacifier.
- Janie’s also figured out how to use a cool training cup that teaches her how to take sips from an open cup.
- Janie had her first visit to the dentist and got a cool toothbrush.
- Mirian also bought her a pair of sunglasses and she actually keeps them on her face and head.
One more thing! She’s learned how to do the Thai greeting with her fingers straightened out. For the longest time, she was curling her fingers in. When she’s in the mood, she’ll even bring her hands toward her nose like she’s supposed to.
And of course, we’ve gotta have Senor Fatty Duck Duck in one of these photos.
What a month it has been! Happy 17 months, Kumquat!