cute things

Rosemary is hitting my favorite age. As a babysitter and big sister, I always loved 18-36 months, and Rosemary at 17 months seems exceptionally cute. Her vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds. In the last week or two she started using her first personal pronoun, saying things like, "I juice," "I down," and "I go." Two of the cutest, though:

--Yesterday we boarded our flight in Cincinnati and were then told that our pilot's incoming flight was delayed and he wasn't even on the ground yet. At one point while we waited, Rosie threw her hands above her head and said, "Airplane Up!"

--People - I should say, strangers, - always smile and wave to Rosie. Yesterday when someone smiled, I said to Rosemary, "She's saying hi. You can say hi, too, if you want to." Rosie burrowed her head into my shoulder and said to me, "Shy." I didn't even know that she knew the word. So now I'm working on teaching her "friendly".