17 months old!

Since I wrote my last update of milestones, Faith...

• ...has started using a Big Girl Fork and Spoon! We just have to watch her closely since she tends to get wild with them when she is bored in her highchair and she waves them around. SHARP!

• ...is helping in the garden! I'm preparing the yard for some new plantings this spring and doing a general cleanup. Faith has been very helpful with picking up clippings, rocks, and sticks. This amazing weather we've been having is getting me itching to plant!
  

• ...is VERY close to jumping! She can get all but one set of toes off the ground!

• ...tells us when she wants to go outside by signing "walk" and "march" and pointing outside.
  
• ...has conversations with Jason in the phone each morning! It seems like she understand more and more and gives "yes" or "no" answers to questions...even though they aren't always right (for example, Q: "Faith, did you sleep on your head?" A: "yes"; Q: "Faith, did you sleep standing up?" A: "yes").

LOVING her $4.99 bath letters! We practically have to fight to get her out of the bathtub now!

A new use for the PBK Anywhere Chair

Faith's "Big Smile!"

A park outing with Mama and Daddy!

Check out this girls love of slides! Wheee...

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Oooo! A NEW kind!

Gee, I wonder where she gets the slide fetish.

HA! Daddy went down head first!!!
There is that "big smile" again!

Stopping to smell the flowers

Jumping!

Snuggle time with Sophie

Rolling in laughter. A picture doesn't begin to capture it!
This is her "what do you mean, I am not going to get picked up right away" face.

She did this. All by herself. A proud moment for me.