Chloe is 17 months old...what?!

Just got out of the tub....gosh, she looks like her dada here!

Chloe is getting more adventurous, independent, brave, imaginative, talkative, and hilarious every day.  We'll start with the adventurous first:

• takes off running in stores, libraries, down the road or driveway...it doesn't matter where we are.  She wants to see what's around every corner and doesn't care if anyone is with her or not.
• eating mud seems like the thing to do these days.  Just in the past five days, she's put mud in her mouth twice.

What do I mean by independent?

• wants to feed herself all foods either with her fingers or with a spoon.  She's actually pretty good about getting most foods from a spoon to her mouth.
• wants to brush her own teeth or hair.

Brave=fearless

• tries to walk up the slide
• stands on chairs
• climbs chairs and couches
• runs everywhere and hardly ever cries if she falls down

Imaginative play is so much fun to watch!

• feeds baby dolls bottles
• pushes baby dolls around in a stroller
• tells baby dolls and stuffed animals 'night night'

The word list grows daily:

• Newest words are boo boo and mine.
• Her favorite words are....down, outside, apple juice, out, mine, KK, no, mama

Not an hour goes by that this kid doesn't make me smile:)

• While eating, she makes the funniest faces at me, hoping that I'll imitate (and I always do!).  Usually she'll squint her eyes and tilt her head side to side.  Or she'll raise her eyebrows really high.  I really must get a video of these two faces!
• Sometimes she'll walk around the room while leaning over and almost always, falls down and starts laughing at herself.