Gi-Power

At seventeen months, Gi is plugging along at her own speed. She had another visit with Dr. L yesterday. My little lovey is officially 31 inches tall and 19.8 pounds. Her head circumference is still the same from her last check-up, 44 1/2 centimeters. She is basically a growing, healthy baby with no red flags at this time. Music to my ears! Her next visit to the ped won't be till six months from now---wow, she'll be close to 24 months by then. How time flies! Gi seems to understand most words and sentences that we say to her. Her vocabulary usage is still quite limited---dada, baba(she calls me this), bil (milk), jaja (Gigi), vuvu (Fifi, our dog), dah (dog), cah (cat), etc. She will repeat words when we ask her too. Her latest obsession is "talking" on the phone. We notice that she tries to mimic the tone of our voice and speech pattern using her own brand of jibberish squawking. All remote controls in the house are now cell phones to Gi. It's hilarious watching her pace back and forth squawking into a remote control as if she was barking orders to her lowly underlings. Climbing, what can I say? She now likes to climb on and off of furniture. Every so often, she'll fling one little leg on the coffee table, look at us sheepishly, and hoist herself to the surface. Our bed is also an object to be conquered as far as Gi is concerned. She can't quite climb up yet but sure knows to how get down from it. She drops her feet over the side, grasps onto the sheets with her little hands and slides down like a prisoner escaping from his cell window. Gi continues to attend various storytimes and mommy and me classes. She'll start tot tumbling classes beginning February. She still loves to be read and sang to. My munchkin is growing and progressing. I couldn't ask for anything more. Life is good.