Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

What I love about you - 2 years old.

I actually had this ready in time, I just forgot to post it.
I love you Sadiebug! ~Mommy

NIGHT-NIGHT
  • You go to bed around 8:00, or a little later if you're playing and being a good girl.
  • You've gotten attached to one particular blanket. It's pink, green and white striped and so soft. Sometimes when you wake up in the morning or from your nap you even like to get it out and carry it around with you.
  • Most nights you don't pitch a fit at bedtime... you might whine a little, but you don't protest too much.
  • Here's what you usually sleep with in your crib: seahorse, Violet, Ladybug and Bumble Bee Pillow pets and two blankets, and since you turned one you've added several baby dolls, Mickey Mouse and a couple of other random things.
  • You usually wake up somewhere between 7 and 8 in the morning, and once you do wake up you start calling "Daddy... Daddy...."
  • You don't ever sleep in later than 7:30 anymore. :(
  • You've gotten used to laying down immediately, with your head on the ladybug, snuggling with a baby, and covered up with your favorite blanket.
  • You still nap somewhere between 12 and 1, for between 1 and 3 hours. At daycare you nap at noon for usually no more than 2 hours.
  • When you wake up from your nap we ask you if you had any dreams. You say "yeah" and we say "about who?" and you say "Barney"

EAT!
  • When a meal is prepared we say "Can you get in your chair?" and you walk over to your high chair, crawl up the front, turn and sit down in your booster seat and start clipping the lap belt together. 
  • Your eating schedule consists of breakfast and milk when you wake up. Your morning favorites are adult oatmeal, poptarts, fruit, applesauce, and cereal.
  • You have gotten really good at feeding yourself with a fork or a spoon.
  • If you finish your morning milk, you come to us with your cup and "All gone." We tell you to put it in the sink and you go drop it in.
  • If you find an old sippy cup sitting around you come up to use and say "Old." And again we tell you to put it in the sink and you do.
  • Lunch happens somewhere between 11 and noon. You always want "Big Bready" which is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which we usually fix for you. You also get another sippy cup of milk.
  • You usually take your nap after lunch, but when you wake up you get some juice diluted with water and a snack... usually fruit or snack crackers.
  • You love juice, so if you finish it before dinner then you get water.
  • With the exception of when you are teething, you usually eat pretty good.  
  • Your dinner is usually whatever we eat. Sometimes you don't like whatever you put in your mouth and you'll say "I don't want that" and spit it out.
  • When you're done eating you to say "done" or "down". If you haven't eaten a lot,  we encourage you to eat "two or three more bites" but we don't force you, but you also can't get "snacks" later on.
  • You love applesauce. I think you would eat it for every meal if you could. You also love oranges, pb&j sandwiches, crackers, chips, sauce, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, string cheese, grapes, raisins, poptarts, and goldfish.
  • Daddy had to put childproof locks on the pantry because you kept trying to open it and get out snacks for yourself.

SAY WHAT?
  • You've gotten to the point where you don't ever stop talking. When you turned one, I think you're vocabulary was about 5-10 words. At 18 months it was probably around 50-100+ words at least. And now, you are constantly amazing me with the things you say and words you put together.
  • I've been working with you on putting words together, not just repeating sounds like bye bye. "Aw man" "want this" and "want to watch" are all relatively new terms for you and it took a little while to figure out what you were saying.
  • At 18 months you weren't saying your own name yet. Now you say it all the time. "Sadie going?" "Sadie did that? I did that?"
  • You still get shy when people to speak to you first, but you warm up to new people pretty quickly.
  • A lot the time I'm amazed at the actual conversations that I have with you.
  • You speak pretty clearly for a 2 year old, but there are still words and things you say that I have to get you to repeat several times to understand it. 
  • Here are some words and phrases I love hearing you say:
    Nose or I need another tissue.
    Where we going?
    I don't want that. (while shaking head and scrunching up your face)
    Help me peas.
    Mommy's turn. (Sadie's turn... etc.)
    No. No way. (unless you're defying us)
    Uh-oh.
    I lu you
    Got it.
    All gone
    Yep
    Yeah! (You say it so enthusiastically)
    Nope
    hold babies
    Who dat?
    What dat?
    Tookie (cookie)
    Kisses (then you make kissy noise)
    Toffee (coffee)
    Oh no. happened?
    Who going?

AROUND THE HOUSE
  • You are a huge help around the house. And you've gotten so independent that most of the time you don't even want our help to do them.
  • You help us empty the dishwasher by handing us bowls and utensils that are on the lower racks.
  • If something needs to be thrown away, you say "away" or "trash" and take it to put it in the trash.
  • You're also very good at taking stuff to people. If I have something for daddy, I can give it to you and say "take it to daddy" and you take it to him.
  • You like to help let Rascal in and out and get excited when he comes back in from being outside.
  • If I put dog food in Rascal's bowl and a couple of pieces spill out, you like to put them back in the bowl. You've even started helping me by filling Rascal's bowl with food on your own.
  • Yes, you are STILL slightly OCD about cleaning up. :) 
  • When it comes to manners, you still say please and thank you most of the time. You say bless you when someone sneezes or coughs. And you're learning how to say yes/no ma'am/sir.

LET'S HAVE FUN!
  • You have so many toys!!! There is an entire area in our living room where you have a train table, kitchen, horse, bookcase full of books, two beanbags, a replica firetuck, baby stroller, shopping cart... and tons of little toys to fill in the gaps like jewelry case, school house, balls, tea set, groceries and food, shape sorter, stacking rings, bowling pins, stuffed animals, dolls, coloring books, cameras, microphones, musical instruments.
  • You just had a birthday party and you got a cash register that you love. You also got some more musical instruments, a table and chair set, a minnie mouse dressup set, alphabet puzzles, singamagigs, and lots of other great toys!
  • Speaking of musical instruments you love to make noise with your kazoos, harmonica, drum sticks, and noisemakers. Me and daddy even got you a guitar for your birthday gift.
  • We have a piano and you love to sit on the stool and play it. You usually pat the seat next to you which means you want one of us to sit down and play with you.
  • For the most part, you do pretty much play with everything, sometimes bringing it all out at once to play with. :)
  • You are so good with shapes! There is an iphone app that says a shape and you have to pick the correct shape out of a group of shapes. You get it right almost every time (and then get a sticker!)
  • You also have an alphabet puzzle that you picked up really quickly. You don't know the letter by the name but if you pick up the "H" and I say "H is for House" you put it in the right spot.
  • You LOVE to be outside and will beg us to go "outside" over and over again. You mainly want to go outside so you can blow bubbles.
  • You love books. Your favorite book is "The Gingerbread Man" and you even know some of the words and say them when I read the book to you.
  • You have a kitchen and you really only make one thing in the kitchen and that is coffee for me and daddy... not tea, but coffee.
  • You have a couple of toy cameras that you link to take pictures with, but I think it's especially funny when I have my camera or phone and you automatically say "cheese!" and smile at me. Does that mean I take too many pictures of you?
  • You love to look at photos and videos of yourself on my phone.
  • You love singalong songs... especially ABCs and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (which you interchange the words while singing since it's to the same tune)
  • Somewhere, somehow you learned how to do the Hokey Pokey... I have no idea.
  • Hands down your favorite show is Barney. We've tried to ween you off Barney with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and now you ask for Barney and Minnie Mouse equally. 
  • We get really tired of Barney so we don't always let you watch it. If you say "Barney?" and we say "no" then you say "Baby Bop?" "BJ?" "Riff?" :)
  • You love playing with your older cousins and their friends, and all the kids at school and the church nursery.
  • You love going to daycare. When I ask you who you played with you say "Olivia." I say "who else?" and you say "Grace." I say "who else?" and you say "Thomas." It's always those three in that order.
  • I can't think of the last time you were in a stroller. Most of the time you're good and hold our hands. Other times you refuse, meltdown, throw yourself of the ground and we end up having to pull or drag you.
STATS
  • Teething has still been a big hurdle for you the past couple of months. You were late cutting your upper incisors and your upper and lower canines, and then they all decided to come in at one time... 6 teeth! June was just an awesome month!
  • I haven't been real good at keeping up which teeth came in when but you now have all your teeth with the exception of the two year molars.
  • The last time you visited the doctor was for your 15 month well checkup. You were 32.75 inches tall, 25 lbs and 10.5 oz, and your head was 18.25".
  • You haven't been to the doctor since 15 months, but based on our home scale, you are around 33 pounds and 36 inches.
  • You wear a size 5 diaper and couple probably wear a bigger size... do they even make a 6?
  • You remind us every day for a "vity" (gummy vitamin) and usually get your teeth brushed everyday as long as we don't forget.
  • You get to take a bath or shower every other day. Daddy usually handles baths and showers, and it sounds like you guys have a lot of fun in there splashing around and getting "soapy." When you're done and it's time to dry off, he makes you "shake it like a Rascal" :)
  • You still only have the one mole on your back.
  • You still have your white blonde hair and blue eyes.
  • Your hair is getting so long. The bangs finally grew out and are long enough to tuck behind your ears. We took you for your first haircut on August 3rd to Spoiled Rockin Kids salon. You were sich a big girl. We only got a little amount trimmed but it made your hair look less wild. 
  • You've gotten so big the last 6 months and are wearing some 2T clothes, but 3T is a more comfortable size for you, in shirts, shorts, pants and dresses.
  • You are in between size 7 and size 8 shoe size.

OTHER RANDOM THINGS TO REMEMBER
  • Walking backwards saying "beep beep"
  • Being in the bathroom when I'm putting my makeup on and wanting to put it on too - I give you makeup sponges and brushes of your own too.
  • Helping with babies - get us diapers and wipes, throw dirty diapers away, put empty bottles in sink, help daddy give babies a bath, hold bottles when we feed them
  • Reading books (birks) and putting them back on the shelf
  • Swimming, jumping in the pool... 1, 2, 3 jump!
  • "Ride to town"
  • Turning light switches on and off
  • Painting in the bath with colored shaving cream
  • Learning to put her clothes on
  • Likes the idea of the potty, toilet paper and flushing but you haven't used the potty yet
  • Transitioning from Barney to Mickey/Minnie mouse
  • Praying at mealtimes (you remind us when we forget!) and the way you say "Amen"
  • Enunciating words and repeating what we say
  • You're starting to form sentences
  • Eating and loving salad - for a week
  • Calling me mom and Lauren
  • Learning to pretend play
  • You know names of all immediate and some extended family
  • Knows shapes - even hexagon!
  • Learning colors - pink and yellow are your favorites to say
  • Knows 1-10 (but occasionally will skip numbers like six and seven)
  • You love all things outside - chalk, bubbles, pool time, swinging, sliding, going to the park, riding in the wagon (waggy)
  • Being tickled by the tickle monster
  • You hate it and even have meltdowns when family and friends have to go "bye-bye"
  • You love putting coins in your bank - "money"
  • You call for "Daddy" when you wake up
  • Napkins (napins) - everyone has to have one
  • You call the perfume bottle in your jewelry box "viti" (vitamin)
  • You LOVE your cousins... all 6 of them!
  • "I'll do it, I'll get it, I got it"... independence and learning to do things on your own, your way
  • no real separation anxiety but you always want to know who is going or coming... Sadie going? Mommy going? Puppy going? Babies going?