Thursday 13 - 17 Months!

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I turned 17 months old yesterday. In honor of that milestone, here are 13 things about me at this point in my long life!

1. I have 17 teeth – one for each month! I brush them all by myself. That means I am dentally advanced for my age . . .
2. I weigh 26 pounds. I am 32.5 inches tall. That means I am no longer way off the growth charts like I used to be. I am now between the 75th and 90th percentile for girls, which Mommy says is a good place to be.
3. I can run and walk backwards and walk in Mommy's shoes and do splits.
4. I can kick a ball forward, throw a ball forward, and stand with one foot on a ball.
5. I know more words than Mommy does, seeing as she doesn’t speak any Afrikaans or Portuguese or Shona.
6. I refuse to say Please or Thank You or You’re Welcome yet, though.
7. I can name lots of things in pictures, including monkeys and cats and dogs and hippos and elephants and babies and balls and stars and bunnies.
8. I am still learning to push myself while standing on a skateboard. I can skateboard just fine when kneeling or sitting on the board.
9. I am all ready to start potty training. I can put toilet paper in the toilet and would love to flush it if Mommy would let me. So now I just have to convince Mommy to let me stop wearing diapers . . .
10. I scribble very well. I can scribble any where, any time, and on anything. I can take caps off pens and markers all by myself.
11. I can dress myself. My style leans towards funk, including underwear over my head and around my neck, shirts on my legs, and rubber bands on my wrists. Oh, and sunglasses in my mouth and nose.
12. I can tell the time. Not in any language you would understand. It's a language between me and my Rolex. And I KNOW when you're messing around with my naptimes and meal times.
13. I think dolls should not have clothes on. Why do people keep putting clothes on my dolls?

Now, here I am demonstrating #4: