The Journey: 17 months

Lillian weighs about 25 pounds now, in size 4 diaper and wears mostly 18 month clothes. She sleeps about 12 hours each night and takes almost a 2 hour nap around 1pm. Her hair is getting longer, so we have to pull it back everyday so it is not constantly in her eyes. It is still straight and blonde as can be, but Mommy gets excited when it curls up after she comes homes from the park with a sweaty head!
She talks so much, as will repeat almost anything that I tell her to! We got really excited this month as she finally started saying her name. Now she says "yil-yian" over and over when she wants to do something herself (like put on her shoes or eat her cereal) without mommy's help.
In a typical day, she wakes up around 9 (because she plays in bed until about 9:30 every night) and immediately says cat, mommy, milk and cereal. Eating is her main priority! Then she sees her toys after eating and wants to play tea party ("tea ta bo"), "blocks", "sit down" to "color" or do "that" (play-doh). She says yellow, green, and blue but not necessarily at the right color. She wants to color her favorite characters like Elmo, Mr. Grouper, "bluh bluh bluh" for fish, and "bubble" for bubble guppies. She also wants Mommy to draw for her a cat, dog, sheep or Elmo. I absolutely love how she says her p's in a quiet whisper. She says it for sheep, soap, dip, up, open and cup. She also loves to beg loudly to play something and then decide 2 minutes after dumping it all out that she wants to "keen up". Soon after breakfast is snacktime when she asks for "mo saks" (more snacks) like "nana" (banana) "bu berr" (blueberry) "aap uhl" (apple) "pea buh er" (peanut butter) "ooky" (cookie). She eats 3 meals a day and plenty of snacks in between. We currently go to Kindermusik class on Sunday mornings, various playdates on Mondays, Sing and Sign class on Tuesdays and Swim lessons on Wednesdays. In the afternoons, her nanny takes her for walks outside in the park. When they get home we eat dinner, take a bath, read books with daddy then sing songs and go to bed. She is obsessed with her stuffed animals Cat and Elmo and needs to know where they are at all day long.
She also has learned a lot of sign language from our classes. She will sign: open, eat, thank you, please, home, sign, more, sorry, rabbit, bird, duck, red or others i cannot think of.
She is growing and learning so much everyday, it blows my mind when I see pictures of her from just a few months ago!