Wow A, you are 26 months old! You aren’t just 2 anymore, you have been 2 for a couple of months. People warned me about the 2′s – about the tantrums. Luckily, while we do have to deal with the occasional fit about something – that hasn’t become an issue (knocking on wood). What people didn’t warn me about? Slowness. And repetition.
You love to take your time, doing anything and everything. Especially eating. You have to talk about eat bite, play with it, offer to us and lamby.. even baby K who is asleep in the bouncer. You have to repeat everything you say over and over and over. You would have dinner last 2 hours if you had your way. While I don’t want to teach you to eat too fast, we are having to resort to bribery to get you to finish in a reasonable time frame. If you eat enough of your dinner, you can get graham crackers but you have to do it before its time to take a bath… or by the time daddy finishes or something else we can come up with. (Her favorite dessert is dipping graham crackers in her soy milk so that’s a good bribe these days) For some reason this is mostly a dinner time phenomenon – you eat your breakfast waffle pretty fast now that we are on a schedule of getting you out the door with daddy to daycare. The slowness also happens often when trying to get you downstairs or upstairs. The other day I called you a ‘slowpoke’ and you said ‘no, melia’. Haha. You are adorable regardless!
Other than the slowness, and the occasional whining fit (I think this is a common toddler girl thing) - you are really at an adorable age – and really getting good at communicating you wants and needs. You’ll tell us ‘I don’t like thunder’ when its thundering. (Which we’ve somewhat resolved by introducing daddy’s idea – the thunder bag – fun toys to play with when its thundering). You can verbalize when you have booboos, where and that they hurt. You often ask for boo boo bunny although you don’t actually like the cold of boo boo bunny. [Side note - you don't like cold anything! You'll drink milk, oj and water out of the fridge but it can't have ice and you won't eat anything cold, especially not frozen things like ice cream. If even the fruit came from the fridge you tell us 'too cold!'] You say phrases you pick up from various grandmothers and friends like ‘oh my goodness’ and ‘that is so cute’. You can sing whole songs now, with baa baa black sheep being your favorite. (I love how you say were for wool – I know we need to work on proper pronunciation but its too cute). You can also do your ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Row Row Row Your Boat and probably more I just don’t realize. You even started saying a blessing before meal time the other day, I guess something they do at school. We usually stick to evening prayers but maybe we’ll add blessings since you seemed to like it so much.
You are very good at playing pretend now – you like to serve tea for your tea party and hand us cookies and tell us what color they are. You always are drinking milk in your cup you tell us. You also like to have your animals involved, especially lamby. Lamby likes to turn on and off the light in your room so you climb up on your stool with lamby and hold his arm to turn it on/off, then tell him ‘good job lamby’.
You are a great big sister. Well mostly you play by yourself but you take lots of interest in K as well, which works out for us. Your favorite things to say are: ‘K is crying’ – to us; ‘Stop crying K’ – to K; ‘K making noises!’ – to us; ‘I love you K’ – to K; ‘I touch her!’ – to us when you tickle her or play with her hair.
You still love your puzzles but you are a little less fascinated by them the last week or so. However every night? We have to read Rainbow Rob. You have tons and tons of books but for two weeks now, its Rainbow Rob. I have it memorized now and just recite whatever page you have turned it to since you won’t sit on my lap anymore and have to sit on the ottoman by yourself.
You’d watch hours upon hours of Mickey Mouse clubhouse if we let you, but recently I noticed you have started to recognize which episode. Sometimes you tell me the ending while its just starting. Its pretty funny. We’ve also introduced Little Einsteins for variety and I like it because you are more interactive with it – patting and clapping along with them. It also is a way for us to add in a touch of drama since you have shown to be a little scared of drama in things – you seem to be growing out of it. Maybe we’ll get to introduce you to some Disney movies soon if you can deal with drama/scary – I’d love to show you Snow White when its released again this fall.
Last, I’ll talk about your bows & clips. I find it so funny that you really don’t care what your clothes are, but you are very opinionated about which bows/clips you are wearing. We had to introduce a rule that for school you only get 2 in your hair, else you’d go wearing 10. I love that you are expressing yourself, so I let you pick whichever ones you want. Your hair is just getting longer and more curly, so the clips/bows are necessary to keep it out of your face – and I’m just glad you’ll wear them. You also really like your headbands, but want bows & clips as well as your headband. Maybe you will be into fashion or hair design when you get older – who knows.
Anyway A, you are adorable and we love seeing you learn & grow and hit different stages. I am sorry that sometimes we have low patience right now – but we are trying to give you the time & attention you deserve. We have so much love for you in our hearts and I think & hope you know that. Big big hugs – you are still my baby girl.
Love,
BabyMomma
Note – pictures/video to come – the computer had to get moved to higher ground when we had some flooding the other night (with half of Atlanta), so its not fully hooked up yet.
