17 months

Today you turned 17 months old. You have been going to bed easier for the past month, and for the past week you actually asked to go to bed (“mimi”). I sit in one of the chairs in your room (and it has to be the same chair, or you will complain), you lay on my chest and you look at me and smile hundreds of times until you actually fall asleep. Sometimes you ask for your stuffed animals (“au au”, “urso” and “coeio”) and hug them all. But you still wake up at 5 AM every day, sometimes 5:30, sometimes 4:30. You nurse and then cuddle with me in bed until 7 AM. We’re trying to stop this but you get really mad at us. You are talking so much these days, we’re waiting for when you will start putting words together to make sentences any day now. You learn new words every day. Today you were saying (76) quente (hot), (77) braço (arm), (78) perna (leg), (79) beio (beijo/kiss). You still fight to take naps, you cry and whine and almost falls asleep while standing but don’t we dare say “mimi” or try to put you in bed or in the couch. Usually we take you for a stroller ride and you fall asleep really quickly, and you sleep there for an hour or two. We’re glad we bought the stroller that lays completely flat! You LOVE playing outside, if you could, you would be outside all day long. Even now, during the winter, you spend half of your day playing on the back or front yard. You go crazy when you see the neighbor’s kids running around and you demand we take you there too (points at the door while repeating “abre! abre! abre!” (open) over and over again). Your favorite food is hummus, you ask for it many times a day “aimussss”. And the #1 dessert is ice cream, vanilla. Chocolate pudding or strawberry ice cream don’t even get a close second.