23 Months Old

Happy 23 months to this little hanging monkey!!!

Little girl, you are weighing around 23 pounds I guess and no change in clothes size as last month.  You have moved uo to a size 4 and sometimes a size 5 shoe, depending on brand. 

Bedtime is still 7 pm, but lately we've gone earlier because the past couple of weeks you've decided to wake before 5 am.  Mommy had to turn the monitor off so we don't hear you before 5 am.  You even woke up at 3:16 am one morning never going back to sleep!  You stood in your crib crying the majority of the time.  Mommy still didn't come after you until after 5.  You were exhausted.  I guess you know Joanna can arrive at any time now.  

We have moved to naps in our bed which is a huge step from driving in the car and then moving to the couch.  

You are one smart cookie.  You have picked up learning more of your colors...brown, black, white, grey.  Of course you know blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow, green, red.  You can also match your colors with your flash cards.  You also can count to 10.  For some reason you have trouble with number 1, but from 2 -10 you can say them.  You love saying, "thank you."  Such a sweet girl!

Two of my favorite things you say are:  when you don't want anyone following you, you put your arm and hand straight out and say, "keep back," dragging ot the word 'keep.' Then you take off running doing what ever and then run back to where we are and you do it again.  You also come up to one of us and say, "need hug" or "need kiss."  Melt mommies heart why don't you kid :)

You are afraid of the ocean, but love playing in the sand.  Mommy has to fill your sand buckets up with water so you can play.  I think you are more afraid of the waves than anything.  You do love playing in your little pool. You say, "I splish splash!"  You still love to swing at home and at the park.  You've also turned into the the little climber.  Amazing how you can pull yourself up on the bed.

You have become a better eater which makes mommy happy.  You still have days where you are picky, and other days you aren't.  You love fish and french fries.  You've gotten better about eating chicken and you love meatloaf.  For veggies you like cucumber, asparagus, roasted carrots.  You are also a carb and dessert girl like mommy.  Pasta, crackers, fig bars, chips and ice cream.  Your favorite fruit is apple and mandarins oranges.  You will officially drink plain cows milk.

You now have Memom here for the summer which makes you a very happy little girl.  Mommy has moved down from being your favorite person.  That's okay, because once Joanna is here, she will need more of mommies attention.

    

    We love you so much our popsicle eating, swinging monkey, cuddle bug little girl.  Hard to believe you'll turn 2 in a month!!!  Hug, hug, kiss, kiss sweet darling!