All about Kate

I keep telling myself to wait until Kate is 18 months to do a post about her, but there are just too many pictures of her to post and too many little quirks about her that I want to remember right at 17-months-old so here it goes:

• Kate loves shoes and trying all of her shoes on. We call her Joe Jr. (from the movie While You Were Sleeping) and when she's sad, we jokingly say when she needs cheered up like Lucy tells Joe Jr in the movie, "Awe, why don't we go try on some of my shoes..." (and it seriously works!) However, her Nike shoes trump all of the shoes and she would wear those everywhere if we let her (and we usually do!)
• I don't know many 17-month-olds who can request "The Newsies" but she does! She LOVES dancing and always begs at the TV and says, "Noooneeee!" and while I queue up the Newsies soundtrack, she already starts dancing in silence :) 
• The only song she can sing is This is The Greatest Show from The Greatest Showman. And it's just the beginning, "Oooooooh" part with lots of clapping involved :)
• She loves her "beebees" (her stuffed animals) and won't go to sleep without them all in her bed with her. (I find it interesting that she is drawn to all of the teddy bears, which are the stuffed animals that Jack and David rejected and were never interested in)

• She picks fights with David and we can't figure out why because he is the scariest when he is mad! 
• She loves swimming and she loves floating on her back, which I think is so funny! She also LOVES her puddle jumper. Jack and David always refused to wear one so it has been significantly more relaxing going swimming since she will actually wear one. We have to be careful to put it away when we are done swimming or she wants to wear it around the house too ;)

• She loves going on walks and I think life will be significantly easier with her when the weather cools down and we can go on longer walks!
• She loves doing "yoga" - she has the best downward dog and scorpion pose and she has mastered her summersault :)
• She loves playing with Jayci (our neighbor's baby who moved) and still walks over to their house and says "Jayci." So sad! Luckily, we do baby swaps during preschool still :)

• She loves dogs and puppies. She loves watching puppy videos with Spencer on his phone and meeting a real dog is quite an emotional experience for her. She laughs, she cries, and she makes the funniest "surprised" faces.  
• She loves reading books but her attention span only allows for about 15 seconds per book ;)

Kate photo dump:

We love you, Kate!!!