On the 1st of March, Abby had her 17 month birthday! Can you believe it!? She is almost a year and a half old! I cannot believe that soon we will be celebrating her second birthday and before that happens she will have a baby brother or sister. Time certainly flies!

Abby is growing and learning so much. She talks all the time and while most of it is still not in a language anyone can understand, she has added a lot of words to her vocabulary. SO far she can say, but is not limited to because my memory is terrible, these words… Jack, Moon, Tree, Kitty, More, Dog, Piggy, Mama, Dada, Grandpa, Nana, Star, Shoes, Fishy, Bye and just last night she said Kings while we were watching the hockey game! That’s our girl! There are more, but its hard to remember them right now.

She understands so much now which is so nice, but now we are hitting some of the reasons for those terrible twos. Mainly the whole concept of “Mommy, Daddy I know what I want, why cant you understand me!!??”. It certainly isnt anything I cannot handle!

Abby is eating like crazy again, which means she is taking another growth spurt. During her last check up Abby had grown quite a bit in length but there wasn’t much of an increase in weight. She is too busy running around everywhere! She burns it all off too fast. I guess we will see what changes she has made at her next big appointment.

Another big change, which mommy loves, is that she Abby now has enough hair to put into piggy tails. Even more important is that she now keeps them in and does not rip them out right away. Her hair isn’t long enough to cut yet and she certainly isnt old enough to sit still long enough to have it cut, so its nice that I can finally do things with her hair to keep it out of her eyes and face.

Abby is growing and changing every day and as far as I am concerned, ups her cute quotient with each passing day as well! She always does something to surprise and amaze me. I cant wait to see what the next few days, weeks, months, and years bring us! We are so blessed!