Soccer Dad

17 months

At 1:15 AM this morning she turned 74 weeks old.

As I mentioned last month she started walking. That means that when I put her down, I don't feel her knees buckle as she now stands with ease. It also means that she's stopped her "scooting." That's something I'll miss. Instead of crawling like most babies she'd propel herself across the floor in a sitting position, using two legs and an arm.

She's pretty adept at going downstairs. She gets on her stomach, backs to the stairs and then slides down pretty quickly. She has on occasion tried to walk down stairs, but we try to discourage that as she's not big enough for that yet.

Like her sisters she's gravitating towards dolls; her "babies." She puts them in the little crib, and the little car seat and covers them with such care or just drags them behind her on the floor. (Her 6 year old sister, I'm reminded, also liked trucks. She used them to transport her dolls.)

Her other favorite toy seems to be her sister's "Hello Kitty" pocketbook. Well now it's her pocketbook. And when she's ready to go out she'll grab the pocketbook. When we can we put her toy cell phone in the pocketbook so she'll be able to stay in touch. (And when we're readying her to go, she say "bye-bye.")

She "kisses." Of course it's more like she rubs her cheek against someone else's.

She loves "cogus." (cookies) "Cogus" can be rice cakes, crackers or cookies. But don't try to give her a cracker when she sees a chocolate chip cookie. She also likes to take her crackers out of the package rather than having handed to her.

While she imitates dogs by panting and sticking out her tongue, she roars for a bear.

I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing, so hopefully later I'll update this post.

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