17 months!

Just playing with my puppy

My baby is 17 months old today! How did this happen? The time has gone so fast, but I love every minute of it (well maybe with the exception of her giving me the flu twice) She is turning into such a little person. We have finally learned to climb down the stairs. She's been climbing up them since she was probably 9 mo old but now we can get down too so we're all set. I still keep the gate closed of course, she's only allowed to do this stuff with someone else with her. She talks all the time, still not too much english though. She says mama, puppy, kitty, bye, hi, go way (to the dog) and uh-oh. And last week for the first time ever, she told me NO! I was hoping we wouldn't pick that one up for awhile longer, but no, I was giving her lunch and she decided she was done with it, she shoved my hand back and said 'no mama'. She has almost all her teeth and she just wants to run, run everywhere. Sometimes she's a picky eater, and sometimes she'll chow down whatever you put in front of her. She wants to drink milk all the time, but I'm really trying to make her drink juice and water. She'll go to town with water if it's out of a bottle we are drinking, she always wants what we have, but she really doesn't want anything to do with juice. She's still having pooping issues, but no more trips to the ER. She loves putting our shoes on and trying to walk around. It's adorable. She sleeps alot, she'll go to bed around 10:30 and she doesn't get up til like anywhere between 10 and 11:30 the next morning. I realize how lucky I am for this since I work at night, but sometimes I worry about her sleeping this much, what if somethings wrong with her that I can't see? Is this normal, maybe just a growth spurt, or maybe she just got mommy's love of sleep? Did this happen to any of you guys? That's not to say she doesnt' still have her moments of no sleep no matter what. Especially when she comes back from Chris's house, it always takes her a day or two to get back to normal, he always screws up her schedule. That's life I guess. So that's my girl in a nutshell right now. She's fabulous and makes my life worth living every day. I just want to say thanks to my friends that are always there for me through the good and the really, really bad, you know who you are and I love you. Damn daylight savings, got to get ready for work.