*She refers to herself as a 'hot mess' now. When she does something funny, she'll just say 'hot mess' completely unprompted.
*She calls herself 'Carowine'. She started doing this when she would walk around with a fake phone and say 'Hello!' and then hand me the phone and I would ask if they wanted to speak to Caroline. It is precious.
*She knows just about all of her colors. She can point to and name blue, green, yellow, red, pink, purple, white, and black. She will walk around to stuff and say, 'Color's that?' It's pretty awesome to see her want to learn.
*If you count, she'll give you the even numbers up to ten! She will also go 1, 2, 6!
*She can point to all the different things on her face. She can close her eyes when you ask her to and she will stick out her tongue if you ask her where hers is.
*She now has some friends with her in bed. It used to just be her paci (now called 'Daci') and her bobo, but she is now joined by an elephant, the pig she took her pictures with, and another little pig we got at Ikea. She does a check before she goes to bed.
*For a couple of weeks now she has been telling us when she needs a new diaper. She'll just walk up to us and say 'biper' (diaper) and when we check she will usually have a pretty nice present in there for us. Do I see some easy potty training in our future? I'll keep you posted on that one.
*She has started to say 'love you' unprompted. Most of the time she will say it when we say it to her when she is going to bed, but every once in a while she will throw it out there on her own.
*Since she has been talking she has said, 'Oh, bay-bee!' I have no idea what she is really trying to say or where she got it, but she says it all the time and I can't help but laugh.
*I am getting a glimpse into a girly-girl. Mimi had some plastic bracelets and Caroline loves to put them on and walk around with her arms up so that they stay on. Mimi gave us a set to take home and she has walked around most of the afternoon with those things on. She is also into brushing hair. She'll brush anyone's hair that will let her and she is a fan of me letting my hair down so that she can get it nice and straightened out. Pretty soon I'll be like my mom and pay her a quarter so that she will play with my hair!
*Her laugh is still one of my favorite things of all time. When we get her going she will belly laugh and then she gets hiccups EVERY SINGLE TIME!
*I wrote in the last update that she was getting to the mean stage. That has gone almost as quickly as it came. The hitting and kicking is gone for the most part, even though she will scream when she gets told no. She has also gotten her butt popped a few good times for it!
*Her vocabulary is pretty big. There isn't a whole lot that she does that she can't ask for/talk about.
*She LOVES to buckle stuff. Sometimes we can clean her up from a meal and leave her in her seat for a good 10 minutes buckling her strap. She also has a habit of walking around to ALL strollers and trying to help them buckle their belts.
*We have been to the beach/pool a good few times this summer and the girl loves her some water. She is in that weird stage of wanting to be completely let go and hating to wear any type of flotation device. She'll kick it in her little boat for a bit, but the novelty wears off quickly. We went out into the ocean and she was pushing off of me so that I would let her go, but she LOVED being thrown over the waves. She also sits in the waves and says, 'Wee!' every time a new bit of water laps over her. This last time we went to the pool she would stand on the edge and start to count and semi-jump in. She also figured out that she can play on the steps and not have to be held by anyone.
*She still loves to brush her teeth and gets pretty mad when you go into the bathroom and don't put her up on the counter. She'll just stand there and say, 'Ahh!' until you help a girl out.
*She is starting to cut her eyes at you. Her facial expressions are out of control already!
*She will do something and then turn around and say, 'No, ma'am!' before we can. Then she runs the other way laughing.
*She tells Harley, 'No, sir!' even though she LOVES HIM. When we go on walks, she loves to hold his leash and she'll see 'Harwey walk!'
*She knows everyone's name in the family. She can say all grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.
*When we are telling her to do something and end with OK, she'll nod her head and say, 'Oh, pay!'
*At almost 17 months she is in size 12 - 18, 18 month clothes, size 3 diapers, and size 4 shoes. The diapers and the shoes will be changing in the not too distant future - especially with all this growing she is doing!
