Hello my love! You're 2 and a half now, I cannot believe it. It's impossible to sum you up in these letters, but I'll try to hit the highlights.
First off, as usual.. you're adorable. You are sweet, thoughtful, and hilarious. You always have been, I bet you always will be. You're also very much a 2 year old. Fiercely independent one minute, fiercely dependent the next. You love to ask if you can do things yourself, you love to help with anything we're willing to let you help with. You have an opinion on most things, and 'no' is a typical expression from you.
Your talking is unbelievable. You're lightyears ahead of your age, and it's hard sometimes to remember how young you really are when you talk like such an adult!
Lately you've been saying "surely" a lot.. like "Yes, I surely would like to go for a walk" or "Yes, it surely is good pasta". Cutest thing ever.. so proper!
You're such a boy.. bugs and construction are your two favorite things right now. Dinosaurs too, but not as much as bugs or construction. You've actually made ME really interested in construction, it "surely" is fascinating!
Technical things, you're wearing a 3 T in clothes, size 5 diapers.
You sleep well MOST of the time (today is a bad day to ask me this, you wouldn't sleep very well last night), but you do still get up randomly sometimes, not sure why. We talked a little the other day about a big boy bed and how you would like to have one, but I'm just not sure until you're sleeping better. You slept with me last night, which is sweet and all that, but really you don't need to try to sleep UNDER me, or with your butt in my face or elbow in my ear.
You're eating like a champ. You eat a lot (for you), and you're willing to try anything (even though you'll spit it out if you don't like it.. I don't blame you!). You love pasta (still), string cheese, sausage, those are all old news. You also like grilled chicken, cauliflower, melon, grapes. You'll eat ground beef in dishes that I make, you love my chicken and dumplings still (haven't made that for a while!), yogurt, puddings, actually you eat a lot of different things pretty regularly. Oh you love pizza of course, and ice cream.
We do fun things all the time, yesterday we went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, you love the animal halls and even really liked the gemstones area. We've gone to the zoo, aquarium, Children's Museum, Heritage Square so far this Spring. You love being out and about, and I use your stroller less and less. You've been really good about staying by me and walking, even at the grocery store!
We're going to Chicago next month, you haven't flown since last November. It's just a 2 hour flight so hopefully that goes ok, and then in January we'll go back to Florida, we all love it there.
Potty training is pretty much on hold. You WILL go in the toilet, but you'll also refuse to go without a diaper.. I'm not going to force it on you.
We play with a few friends sometimes, mommy's friends Kristin and Stephanie have kids your age and you really enjoy them.
You love playing with kids now, you really JUST started actively playing WITH instead of along side of them. You were chasing this little boy at the park the other day trying to tickle him, it was so adorable. You like to hold hands with people and try to kiss them. So sweet! I'm really protective of you, it's hard to let you go knowing that a kid could be rude or mean to you (which has happened, and trust me I've dealt with it for you!).
You know your ABCs, but now you refuse to say them.. that independent streak and determination running rampant in you.
You play the piano a lot and always tell me that you're playing my favorite song.. it's so cute (and not half bad, I like my favorite song a lot!).
You spend time with Oma and Opa at their house more often, you love it there. We got you a jungle gym of sorts for their backyard, which you really like. Your relationship with them is so wonderful, I'm lucky to have them, and you're lucky to have them too.. and I know you know that.
I can't even think about all the other "stuff" with you, I'm sure I missed a ton, but there's the basics of where you are right now. We tried to start a quote book of things you say but it's hard to keep up with, we'd be writing in it all day long! I'm terrified of losing any memories of you, but also have to balance just enjoying those moments instead of documenting every little thing.
I love you, so very much. To the moon and back!
Love, Mommy
