17 Months

I cannot believe in one short month my BABY girl will be 1 1/2 years old!! Miss Stella Ross is one sweet, funny little girl. She is developing quite a personality and following in her big brother's footsteps with the attitude of "I want it NOW!" Her are some fun things about SR right now:

• she is sadly moving out of the Elmo phase and moving into Barney and the Wiggles. Stella Ross loves anything that has music and wants to dance all the time
• favorite songs are: Old McDonald, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle and the Noble Duke of York
• she is still such a big eater. I haven't really found anything she won't eat. (meat is her least favorite, though) The hardest part at meal time is getting it on her plate fast enough. She will SCREAM until she has enough food to curve her appetite. Then she will slow down and actually enjoy what she is eating. She looks like a child that hasn't eaten in days. SR is getting really good at using the fork and spoon and wants to do it once she is getting full!
• has a crib full of "loveys"- 10 pacifiers, puppy, Minnie Mouse, baby doll, kitty. She loves her bed and will try to climb into it and point to her books. She loves to sit in her bed and read!!!
• Stella Ross LOVES the water. Of course this scares me tremendously and I am so thankful we have some distance from our house to the pool. One of her favorite things to do is play with her water table.
• SR can destroy a play room/house in under a minute. She seems to go from room to room loving every second of pulling things out of cabinets and drawers. Her favorite places of destruction are pots/pans, place mats, my body splash, Rafe's pencil box and silly bandz.
• She loves to dress up. She has a jewelry drawer in my bathroom and has a ball putting it on. My favorite costume is the big garnet wig with a tu tu and painted toenails. SO fun!
• still takes two naps a day and prefers the morning nap to the afternoon nap. We are going to start making the transition to one nap because I know Rafe has BIG plans for the summer!!
• SR gave up rocking a long time ago, but has recently started climbing into her rocking chair before bedtime and wanting me to "cuddle" with her while she drinks her milk. I LOVE this time of day. It seems the only time she will let me snuggle with her
• loves her dog and still spoils him rotten every day by feeding him piece by piece of food with her hands