Ruby D at Seventeen Months

Sorry this is a few days late baby girl. Mama hopes to get back on track with cleaning, blogging, and everything else now that it is the New Year (hopefully attitude is included in that).

At seventeen months you:
-climb everything (and i do mean everything). for some reason i am very talented at raising monkey girls. you drag the sit and spin in front of the tv and stand on top of it, you try to climb the bookcase, and you use the pillows, toy box, anything to get on the couches.
-know yourself as Ruby D. if i say Ruby you say either one or two Ds.
-love cake. you get so so excited at the bakery and at home when you see one and start screaming, "cake. i want bite, i need bite, cake." i asked you what you liked the other day, and you told me, "cake." smart girl.
-are so talkative. you answer questions all of the time and say the funniest things. of course this all depends on if you are in the right mood. sometimes you just want to tell me no to everything (except for you will always always say butt butt when asked). i love to ask you who you love. you tell me "you, daddy, gracie, mimi, papa, nick, mommy."
-will not leave your pants or socks on. sometimes you can even get the underwear i put on over your diaper off. sigh.
-love looking at and touching other babies. you also love to hold your sister's hand and walk with her at stores.
-can count 3, 5, and sometimes 7 when we are doing numbers with gracie. you also can point out some letters in words. genius baby.
-still are such a great eater. you try most everything and usually like it. if not you just spit it out and say yuck. you love crackers, cheese, almost every fruit, and all desserts.
-are such a naughty imp at times. you are so funny about it and so darn cute that you just get away with it most of the time.
-are still a mama's girl through and through. you are much better with people you know and are fine if i'm not there, but if i am there then you are my little kangaroo baby.
-are on and off as far as sleeping. some nights you only wake up once other nights you are up three times. a lot of times you say "boob" in your sleep which your daddy thinks is hysterical. i try to get you asleep by nine but you try to fight me most nights. you still take a two hour nap each day around one.
-have the most beautiful white blond straight, thick hair. i still think you are going to have strawberry blond hair when you get older, but i really have no idea.