our two year old

weight: 23.2 lbs (10%)

height: 31.5inches (12%)

We have a two-year-old. geez. That's weird to say. What a little punkin she is though! She is just about the greatest two-year-old there ever was. She is still so passionate about pretty much everything - except for eating, of course. She is FULL of life and love and laughter from the moment her eyes open in the morning to the last few songs she mumbles in her crib to her DD and teddy at night. Truly I will say that her excitement for life is contagious. She makes a mundane and even slightly boring thing into a game or into something fun and a memory we can make together. Whether we make our pile of clean laundry into a fort or sit in the grass outside and watch the ladybugs (she calls every bug a ladybug) reese says, "oh fun mommy!" and her eyes light up and she jumps up and down and says 'ooooohhhhh yay!" I pray I will have that sort of excitement in my eyes all day long too. It's just such a fun thing to watch her experience new things. she really is just a little sponge and soaking in anything and everything we throw at her. 

I think I'd say pretty much all of her favorite things involve being outside. She loves to trace each other or just our shoes or toys with chalk. She loves with all thats in her to blow and catch and pop bubbles. gah lee. I need to take a picture of how many bubble bottles we now have in our garage. I think I counted eight the other day. and this can be a small glimpse into her almost ocd personality.... She knows and remembers EXACTLY which bottles we use and EXACTLY which bubble wands she likes and EXACTLY which order they should go in when we get them out and put them in the driveway. and if Mommy would be so silly as to try to leave any of them out our Reeser would NEVER start playing with anything until it was all set up EXACTLY right. but once we have it all together. {big blue bottle, small blue one, colorful one, the one that isn't opened, the empty one. and then the wands. and then comes the new pink wagon Anna gave her for her birthday that some of them are in} and now the fun can begin :) haha its hilarious! and no we did NOT teach her to do any of that. 

She is still a very picky eater but is getting better at eating a variety of things as long as 'dip' is involved in some way (aka ketchup or mustard). 

Usually she speaks in sentences now. Phrases I hear A LOT throughout the day include: 

"mommy yoook! (look)"

"Yets go see it."

"Common mommy. yets go!"

"Weese put shoes on too."

"Weese do it"

"Nack please mommy" (snack)

"Where dd go? oh dd? wheres are you?" (dd is her blanket that goes EVERYWHERE with her. I need to do a whole post on dd. theres another story about her stubborness.... another time though.)

"hmmmm how bout....." and then she'll name something we should do.

"dis is weeeeally fun!"

"mommyholdyou"(all in one word, said in a really fast whiny voice)

Pretty much my favorite thing that she does right now is when she tell us a story! It just about melts my heart. She'll start gabbering about something and we can only catch a few words we can understand that can sort of tell us what she's talking about but she just keeps going as if shes speaking perfectly clear english. She'll say, "remember mommy. sam....window laughing...bagadogalablah....firetruck... sam fall down... juice. one two juice...." {she told me this one in the car the other day and i think she was trying to tell me about the time she and sam were playing and ran to the window to see the firetruck and sam fell down. and they have matching cups so maybe thats what she meant by juice.} and then she just laughs and laughs about what ever story she told and then she always ends with "remember mommy? memember?" She actually has a CRAZY good memory. All the time during the day she'll ask if I remember something we did or saw even weeks ago and we'll talk about it and always have to laugh together about it :) too cute.

She also LOVES to sing songs! She can sing tons of songs on her own and remembers most of the words. favorites are: itsy bitsy spider, im a little tea pot, abcs, jesus loves me, 'cars song' aka life is a highway, 'lion song' aka oh i just cant wait to be king, veggie tales theme song, honey song from winnie the pooh, winnie the pooh 'hundred acre woods song' (this one is my favorite to hear her sing! i've got to record it!) - and most of all the songs we have on her little kiddo cds. 

She is still very cuddly and so sweet. I praise the Lord daily for her precious demeanor. She is usually very sweet and kind.... however, there is a pretty fiery side to her too. She likes to get her way and is Stubborn with a capital S. I'm glad she has a little spunk but I pray we are able to channel that into good things and that God will use that in her for His glory. I might jinx myself here... but we haven't had very many spankings or time-outs in the last month or so at all!! but we've been praying and talking about what our discipline plan will be when those times come... gosh, parenting is hard. but I think now, more than ever, I just feel so incredibly blessed to have a daughter. to have a child that is ours. to have my reeseieboo to keep me company while daddy is working so hard for us. to have a buddy who wants to curl up in my lap and watch doc mcstuffins as long as i will let her. to have a little family of three. and just us. and to know that no matter where we move, where we live, who we meet, whether we have friends or not, we have the three of us. 

love you to the moon and back my little reesieboo.