17 Months

Helen Grace turned 17 months old on October 25, 2010. Here’s what the little munchkin has been up to…

• Helen Grace weighs 23 pounds, wears 2T/24 mos shirts and 18 mos pants, and is in size 4 diapers.
• She loves to draw, and she has recently gotten attached to the Magna Doodle thing. She can even erase it when she’s done.
• I don’t know where she has picked this up, but she has just started trying to measure things with string. The other day at Grandma’s, she was trying to measure their heads, leg length, etc. Maybe she’s just playing with the string, but we think she’s somehow remember how the nurse does it at her check ups and is mimicking that.
• She can play games, look at pictures, and watch videos on my iPhone completely on her own. I’ll be in trouble when she figures out how to punch in my numerical code to unlock my phone!
• She adds new animals sounds by the day. She surprises me every time we go through the animals with one I haven’t heard. Tonight I heard a version of zzzz for a bee and something that was supposed to be a cock-a-doodle-doo for a rooster. She also says “bump” when we go in or out of the driveway.
• She has just started getting attached to/excited about bows. She really doesn’t have the need for one yet- she has a ton of hair but it’s not in her face yet- but she likes you to put one in it sometimes.
• She runs with reckless abandon, and for the most part, she does fine. She has a few tumbles now and then, but she’s pretty tough and rarely cries.
• Her coordination gets better by the day. She is quite the climber and can get up on any chair, couch, etc. all by herself. She is making great strides to putting socks on by herself too. She can now go up the stairs ‘big girl style’- only one foot on each step. When you sing “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” she claps at the right times. She can also match shoes or socks together.
• Although she does switch it up sometimes, she seems to be predominantly right handed.