Seventeen Months

Ok, ok, she's about seventeen and a half months now, but still. I've got a lot going on here, give me a break! ;) Here are some cute pictures from the last few days, and some vocabulary updates.


Maybe Baby Doll's shirt would fit me.

Well, it makes a good hat!
Nora cooking, with all her tupperware taken out of the kitchen drawer to line up in the living room.
Scooping something delicious out of the ice cube tray.
Crazy girl! And a big grin.
If we don't push the chairs all the way into the table, Nora can now climb up on them herself. This was a preliminary step to getting on top of the table, which I opted to remove her from instead of photographing it!

(My friend Virginia took these last three pictures.) Nora and lots of her friends at a surprise baby shower that their mamas threw for me! It was lovely. l-r: Sebastian, Arlo, Taylor, Madden (top), Ziggy, Nora, Luke. Everyone is Nora's age, except Ziggy's big brother Arlo, who is 4.

Nora and Taylor both love playing in the car.Nora and Ziggy share a hug.
And on to vocabulary - bold means that the words are new in the last month or so since I posted the list last time.

Signs: more, all done, please, dog, hat, milk, food/eat, music, bed/nap, play, brush teeth, push (swing), hi/bye, airplane, Daddy, me, baby, napkin/wash face, hairbrush, banana, telephone, thank you, fly (the bug), Mama, apple, up, you're welcome, book, help, tissue, wind, wash hands, camera, water, shaker (maraca), rain.

Spoken words: yes, no, Mama, Daddy/Dada, switch (turn on the light or fan), fish, shoes, sock, dog, duck, now (only in the context of telling Mica to go somewhere else NOW), tea, dump (to my chagrin, this means poop - we empty her diaper into the toilet before putting it in the pail, and usually tell her it's time to "dump out the poop," but she's only picked up on the first part of that phrase so far, and announces "dump dump dump" whenever she has a dirty dipe), chair.

Sounds: a cow-mmmmooo, a dog-woo woo, and a truck-rrrrrrrrrrarrrrrr, occasionally a motorboat-phhbbt, a bee-bzzzzzzz, a train-chooo.

She can identify her (and your!) foot, bellybutton, tummy, eyes, nose, hair, toes, mouth, and ears.

She knows the motions to a bunch of songs, including The Wheels on the Bus, When You're Happy and You Know It, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Pat A Cake, and others. She'll ask us to sing a specific song by signing "music please," and then starting into the motions for one of the songs. It's super cute!