17 Months

I have not been in the blogging or picture taking mood lately. I don't know why, but that's the way it is right now. Loralye turned 17 months old yesterday and I managed to get a couple pictures of her before bath time last night. She has been sick the past couple of days so the only way I got pictures was turning on a movie that makes her laugh every time... Monsters, Inc. The very beginning is a little scary: a child going to bed and a monster coming in through his closet. Loralye always gets very serious while watching it. And then the child sits up and screams and the monster screams back and starts tripping and falling on toys. As soon as the monster starts screaming, Loralye starts laughing. Like so:

She does it every time without fail. It cracks Aaron and I up. It is so fun to watch her grow and start to understand more and more about the world around her.

Here's what she's been up to lately:

-She knows where her nose, ears, toes, bee-bo (belly button) and lips are.

-She knows the signs for more, milk, and all done. And uses the last two all the time.
-She throws some pretty convincing temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way.

-She loves bread (and crackers, cookies, etc.) and milk. She would have nothing else if we didn't force her to eat other things.

-She loves to empty out drawers, purses, boxes, cupboards, wallets, etc. and put the contents into piles.

-She is not a fan of the heat. Her cheeks get red and she looks miserable real quick when she's outside. Just like me.

-She still has just 16 teeth. I think. She refuses to let me look at her mouth to see if her back molars have come in. I've been bitten enough to not try anymore.

-She is being weaned off of her binkie. She [usually] only uses it to go to sleep.

-She loves to play with her toys by herself. When we get home from work, she will scream at us if we don't leave her alone to play with her toys for at least a half hour.

-She can be in a room filled with toys and only want the toys other children are playing with.
-She gives kisses and hugs often and knows how to work people over with them to get what she wants.

-She would rather be with Grandpa than anyone else when we're at work. The baby gate in his doorway does not stop her from trying to play with him from across the room.

-She doesn't imitate things we say or sounds she hears much, with the exception of 1. the fireworks that go off at the beginning of Disney movies when they show the castle and the Disney logo and 2. me making an owl "hoo hoo" noise when I'm reading The Very Busy Spider to her.

-She loves to draw. She has tub crayons in the bath and crayons (and mommy's pen, of course) at work.

Our little darling...

All the pictures I've been meaning to post over the last two weeks...
Everyone that came to the Dutson reunion. My whole family minus Elder Call.
My whole family again with Philip being so kind as to block the wind from messing up Nikki's bangs.
Some of Loralye from a couple weeks ago...
Trying to put some Teddy Grahams into her straw sippy cup.My big belly girl walking around the office.She has discovered how to remove the binkie strap from the binkie. We haven't been able to use them since. Trying to take the camera. Playing peek-a-boo under my desk. Getting into trouble at work. As usual.xoxo