Can this be real?
Can this child really already be TWO YEARS OLD?
We go to see the good Dr. H. tomorrow, so we will have official stats then. You are still a bit on the petite side though, I think. You are mostly wearing a size 6 shoe, although you can still wear some of your 5s. You wear a 2T top (to fit around that belly!), but still need an 18-24 month bottom for the most part . I bought you several winter wear items in a 2T, and I don't know when you will get to wear them. My luck--you'll fit into them around March or April. Yikes!
Your vocabulary is exploding, which is so much fun. You love to parrot what we say (note to self--watch the language!), and most recently, you have started "HO HO HO"ing every time you see a Santa Clause. Super cute. You even added the "Meerrry Christmas" to it yesterday.
It's a good thing your vocabulary is really coming along because, girl, those temper tantrums....already....just wow. You get very upset. And you get angry. And you throw things and hit. Hard. You do a good job of fooling people with that precious face and those beautiful curls, but when you get mad...watch out! Right now, the fits take the shape of throwing yourself on the floor face down or going to a wall and putting your face into it and crying. We let you work it out and come around, but when we are doing something with you (changing clothes, diaper, picking you up to move), you really let loose. In the vein of having fits, you seem to have a love/hate relationship with "No." You love to say it, but hate to hear it. Typical, but we must work on that.
Your eating habits have changed. First, you have rejected your high chair completely, at least until we took the tray off and started pulling you up to the table like the rest of us. You can live with it for now. No worries, a booster seat literally in the mail and on its way. You also don't seem to be interested in eating many of the foods you once loved. This is a bit of a challenge because I never know what you are going to eat and what you aren't. I can pretty much count on you eating blueberries, grapes, broccoli, cheese and pasta. Everything else is just the luck of the draw. I worry sometimes that you don't get enough to eat at a meal, but all evidence to the contrary. I'm not sure why, but you have decided you want a grown up to put the food on the fork and then you would like to get the fork to your mouth. If you don't have success with this, you go straight to using your hands again. I don't know what is up with this process, but I hope you get it worked out soon because, frankly, I would like to eat too. Bite for Delaney, Bite for Mommy gets tiresome.
You are such a loving child (despite aforementioned tantrums), and I adore that you still let me rock you and snuggle with you so often. I just can't get enough of all that preciousness. My heart smiles (and also breaks a little) when I notice all your growth and how very much you want to do everything your big brother does. I know in your head, you are certain you two are the same age. You adore everything about him, except when he doesn't let you play with a certain toy you have your eye on or takes away the one you are playing with, even if just to "show" you something.
You have an inner light that is so beautiful and felt by all around you. You are more reserved than your brother and I (which will probably serve you well in the future), but still warm and friendly. You are one very tough little girl! We joke that you are kind of the bull in the china closet of life because you approach everything with a bit of reckless charge, but we see that as a strength that wil serve you well as you are faced with the many challenges that life has to offer. As a careful planner, it makes me nervous to think of parenting this trait, since it's so opposite of me, but we will figure it out together. Delaney, when you came into this world two years ago, we could never have imagined how much you would bring to our lives, although we were quite excited to find out. Children test the boundaries of our heart-- and, you my dear, make mine swell every day with love and happiness, beyond what I ever knew I had the capacity to have. We are so blessed by you and honored that we were chosen to be your parents. We love you more than you will ever know.
You have an inner light that is so beautiful and felt by all around you. You are more reserved than your brother and I (which will probably serve you well in the future), but still warm and friendly. You are one very tough little girl! We joke that you are kind of the bull in the china closet of life because you approach everything with a bit of reckless charge, but we see that as a strength that wil serve you well as you are faced with the many challenges that life has to offer. As a careful planner, it makes me nervous to think of parenting this trait, since it's so opposite of me, but we will figure it out together. Delaney, when you came into this world two years ago, we could never have imagined how much you would bring to our lives, although we were quite excited to find out. Children test the boundaries of our heart-- and, you my dear, make mine swell every day with love and happiness, beyond what I ever knew I had the capacity to have. We are so blessed by you and honored that we were chosen to be your parents. We love you more than you will ever know.
ONE DAY OLD
ONE YEAR OLD
TWO YEAR OLD
L.O.V.E.
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