2 Unbelievable Years have gone by

 

I don't know how time went by so quickly. How my sweet little baby girl turned into a running, shrieking, ball of fire! Literally! 

Shes a firecracker. But oh how we love her. 

She's is so full of uncontainable personality. She is very independent and strong willed. She really does have a mind of her own. Her vocabulary has exploded and she talks incessantly about many things. Unfortunately, now with her rambling on sentences I miss most of what she's saying and ask her several times to use clear words and repeat. For example, the other day she stepped on something, unbeknownst to me. Such our conversation;

"fee. Boo boo. No no."

This was repeated several times till finally she hauled her foot up on the couch to show me her foot hurt and I was to fix it. At least SHE knows what she's talking about. 

Her food choices can be extremely limited and then entirely vast. It varies by hour :) one thing we have accomplished is getting her mouth opened for at least one bite for each taste of food on her plate. She has to try at least one bite, because who knows, maybe she'll actually finish it because this has happened many times.

When passing any of the Golden Arches she shouts fries incessantly. It sounds something like:

Wan fries? Yes! Yes! Fries! Fries! 

And when we pull up to the bank window she orders fries from the teller every time. And has been frequently been trying to order pop too. 

She thinks anything with a straw is pop. 

She loves animals. Like loves. Puppy! Puppy! And fish too. Shush! Shush!

She has an obsession with peeling things. She hauled the bananas off the corner the other day and peeled a whole bunch of them. Not for eating. But just for the pleasure of peeling....silly one.

She's insanely brilliant. Yea, yea. All moms think their kids are smart. But she is. She can count to 10 with mild assistance and recognize most letters of the alphabet upper and lower case. She does really well with problem solving. Because again. She's strong willed, if she wants something she's gonna figure out how to get. We find chairs pushed places to get things and she opens the dishwasher.

She pains so much attention to what were doing, especially when we don't realize it I'm sure she could get her own cereal in the morning. The positives of this is she knows what's garbage and can follow instructions to retrieve things and throw things out, or not obey because again, she's strong willed. 

Her qualities are overwhelming and her love as a sister is amazing. 

As is our love for her and and our amazement that God gave us such a blessing. 

 

The birthday week started off with a small group of friends celebrating with some exciting monster cookies and cupcakes. It ended with her not even wanting to go near her present from mama and papa. 

Weve been able to increase her liking to the new pink corvette. But its been turned off and unmoved in her playroom for over a week now. Its really warmed on her, she hops in now and again bringing a bear or stuffed animal or two with her. 

We fear if we turn it on and make it go she'll be scared to death..again.

I really cant believe shes 2. Its just crazy!