Seventeen Months

Little Miss is seventeen months going on seventeen years. She is still a sweet girl who bring sunshine into our home, but she is getting to be quite the handful! Heidi is such a girl! (even though she loves to imitate her brothers by driving cars around with sound effects) She bats her eyes and gives these funny little feminine glances all the time. She loves clothes and shoes and snuggling stuffed animals. She loves to scream like she is being hurt if she doesn't get what she wants (including getting dressed herself instead of me doing it- which, by the way, she hasn't quite mastered). She says new words everyday and occasionally talks in full sentences, the most common being "I want . . ." or "I don't want . . . ". Even with that vocabulary though, she still prefers to just repeat "No" over and over when you have something she wants or when you are trying to give her something she doesn't want. I have worked with her quite a bit to say "please" instead of just demanding something by repeating "no" or "mommy", and she is getting pretty good at it, even if she needs to be reminded a lot.The boys just taught her the word "cookie" today as we were making/eating pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Heidi is great at repeating words you tell her to say, so the boys get a huge kick out of making her say things (sometimes over and over again). They have also tried to get her to say some pretty silly words and phrases, but of course she can't remember the nonsense, so she doesn't say it. Heidi is an incredibly loving little girl. She loves to snuggle and give kisses and gets pretty concerned if she sees someone crying. So even with the girl drama, we love having her around and wouldn't be sad if she gets a sister in a few months (although a brother would be great too ;)
Here are a few pictures of her playing in the back yard today. She loved that I just let her roam around and do whatever she wanted since I usually follow her around every where or trap her onto the trampoline with her brothers. Some of what I call "girl drama" may just be her exerting her independence, but she definitely does it with some girlish flair!