The Kendal Jadyn Burg Blog

17 months old! August 24, 2009

Another month has passed. Bobby and I are both starting to be a little wistful about our baby not being a baby anymore. He announced to me the other day, “She will be a year and a half next month! How did that happen?”

But I have to admit she is becoming more fun everyday too. She is such a little ham and she loves to do things she thinks are funny! She makes herself laugh – it is too cute! So, here is what Kendal is “up to” at 17 months old.

1. Kendal continues to LOVE her kitchen. At any given time there pots, pans, utensils and food trailed throughout the house. She is really starting to “pretend” with the food and stirring. Although she continues to use utensils backward, she insists on using them herself.
2. There are major independent streaks coming alive. While she continues to be an excellent eater when she wants to be, eating any and everything. The very next meal, she will decide she doesn’t want anything I give her. She wants some mysterious something else…
3. Her 2nd mole appeared just after her first. This one is on her back — left shoulder blade.
4. She loves the new Leap Frog Alphabet magnets I bought her. But currently her favorite thing to do is take them all off the fridge andput them in one of her bags to carry aroundthe house. She likes the idea of putting them in the little thing that sings, but she can’t quite get the shapes in it. She does, however, understand how to push the little blue button to make it sing the ABCs again and again!
5. Kendal loves to play in her room, and always insists upon shutting the door. I recently broke out the CD we got at Kindermusik and it is her current favorite thing in her room. She loves to listen to her CD and dance around the room.
6. Kendal still isn’t much of a talker. She has a few words she says that we understand, but the rest of the time she is content to babble in her own language. She continues to be very communicative with her sign language, however, and always manages to get her point across even without “words.” She says, “Up,” “Go,”"Wow,” “Yeay”  ”Hi,” “Dada” and “Moma.” Although “Moma” still seems to be mostly reserved for milk…
7. I can’t decided if it is a glimpse of freedom or shear torture, but Kendal is starting to give up the morning nap. In other words, she will just lay or play in there for an hour or so, but won’t sleep. But making it until 2 is torture. Some days, she still does both, but it is more and more resting in the morning and napping in the afternoon. I hope this will turn her afternoon nap into a nice block of time for Mommy to work!
8. Kendal is cautious (to use Coby’s description) about everything new. She takes her time to warm up to new people and new things, and I am slowly learning not to push it. We are both happier when I let her do things at her speed…
9. While Kendal can get sucked into anything on TV, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is still #1!!!
10. We are looking forward to our impending trip to Disney (AKA – my birthday present)! I can’t wait.
11. And I am already trying to figure out what Kendal will be for Halloween – open to suggestions! I want to make the costume… so nothing too crazy!

That’s Kendal, in a nutshell, at 17 months old.