Soooo Big!

Our home officially looks like we have a child. Well, if you’ve been inside our home that’s rather obvious: stroller, highchair, bouncy seat, crib, toys, books – often scattered hither and yon until clean up time. But now we have chalk scribbles all over our back sidewalk area. So, yes, we have a child.

We’re not too good with the use of chalk yet, but we get the idea. It’s also great if Mama and Papa draw with us. The day after we decorated our back walkway area, I opened the door so we could go out and we sat there exclaiming, “Ooohhh!” and pointing to our works of art. It is true that we are own biggest fan.

It is also true that while “bigger” is entirely objective (at 17 months, 12 month clothes fit perfectly), we are much more little girl than baby. We repeat words. Our vocabulary continues to grow. Mama and Papa understand us better when we’re “talking”. The other night we were getting up on our two feet by ourselves without holding onto anything, staggering and then falling over in a fit of giggles. And we take several steps by ourselves between Mama and Papa, although we’re still getting the idea of balance. Funny enough, we are cautious when it comes to walking, but when it comes to climbing…well, even a tumble down some steps did not teach us anything this week. We continue to think we’re Spider Man.

We have quite a few teeth now. We don’t believe in getting them in any particular order. While we have two front on the bottom and three front on the top, we’ve moved to getting our molars. One is in, one is mostly in and two more are taking stabs at our gums. It made us cranky for about a week, but we’re better now.

Books are our all time favorite thing as late. If possible, we would get Mama and Papa to read to us ALL DAY LONG. We have our favorites, particularly Dr. Seuss’ ABCs, Biscuit (a little yellow dog) and Amelia Bedelia (our favorites being the newer ones when she’s a kid). We can give you the titles of all of them, but Mama especially likes it when we attempt to say Amelia Bedelia. We put our whole tongue behind it, sticking it in and out like a snake.

And we love other kids. We think we’re quite grown up now, able to play with other kids around our age. Of course, we don’t run about with them yet, but peer pressure doesn’t seem to have any effect on our learning to do so. And we are certainly the smallest on the playground. In fact, the babies nearly a year younger than us in Sunday School are as big as we are and often heavier. Mama was glad to discover last week that we do love babies. Mama was holding one and we kept bringing him toys to play with. What we didn’t seem to grasp is why he didn’t play with all ten of them at once, but at least we were sharing. That bodes well for being a big sister in about five months.

Indeed, we are getting “soooo big!”.