Jon took this picture yesterday after church. He wanted me to put it on the blog and say that this was our day… it wasn’t. 🙂 She was lovely except for this moment. Our day was the opposite of this picture. 🙂 She wanted to take the picture and got mad at Jon when he didn’t understand. She handed Jon the camera saying, “cheese peas.” We thought she wanted her picture to be taken. So this is her telling Jon he did it all wrong.

Anyway to the weight check. She gained 11 oz this last month! She’s drinking more milk (loves strawberry nesquick) and I think her body got used to burning all the extra calories from walking. So yea! The doc. & nurses are much happier with her weight gain this month. Hopefully her body will keep up the good work and next month she will be on the 1%tile for weight. She is getting closer to the 1%tile so that’s exciting. So depending on her weight gain at her 18 mo. WCC she may or may not need testing. Wish us luck keeping up with little misses super fast metabolism, and that that is her only issue with gaining weight! Meanwhile it’s sort of a blessing because I can still lift her up when needed as she’s under 20 lbs. 🙂 Here are some of Kaylee’s new fun stuff from the last month:

Body parts she knows (most known for a few months):

• ojo- eye (is getting better at poking her own eye instead of the persons who asked, & she says ojo.)
• nariz- nose (will “honk” her own nose now)
• boca- mouth (is the newest learned)
• manos- hands (claps them together)
• belly button
• toes
• tushie (will slap her own bum now instead of ours)

working on:

• oreja- ear
• pies- feet

She can identify these parts on herself, other people and on her babies. The ones she knows in English we will work on the Spanish later. Those few I forgot how to say in Spanish and didn’t think to call my parents and ask. We are with the help of my parents trying to teach as much in Spanish first as she will pick up the English from just hearing it. Jon is great at remembering to say the words in Spanish. He thinks his accent is terrible, but we are all just happy that he’s saying the words at all. These are the words/phrases she is bilingual with so far:

• turn off the light
• light
• turtle/s
• where’s your/the…?
• goodbye
• bathroom
• thank you
• kisses for…?
• shut the door (for doors, cupboards, drawers)
• please
• shoes
• socks

Her new funny cute thing this month is:
If you ask her, “Who’s a cutie patutie?”
She will say very nonchalantly like it’s just no big deal, “Me!”

Her chores are:

• putting her dirty clothes in her hamper
• putting her bath toys (the turtles) away
• washing her own hands and face with her wash cloth after meals and snacks (is pretty good, but still needs help getting all the stuff off)
• handing Mommy the T.P., and flushing the toilet (potty training prep)
• brushing her own teeth in the A.M. & P.M. (we still finish up “the right way” for her)
• putting any shoes away in the shoe rack

She is such the big helper and we think she is just an amazing little person. We know it’s probably a lot for 17 month old, but she is super independent and the chores evolved from her wanting to do it herself.