Thursday, October 02, 2008

Our "Baby" Is 2 Years Old Today




During the past 2 weeks Rachel has really been blossoming. Here are some of the ways she's changed:




1) She seems to be whining less and talking more




2) She has become really confident in the swimming pool. Water used to freak her out. Now she's much better at ignoring other people's splashing.




3) She actually blows her nose when you hold up the tissue.




4) She says some of our dinner prayer with us.




5) She is willingly giving people hugs hello and good bye. It helps if they give her food. But sometimes she initiates this behavior on her own.




6) She is well on her way to being potty trained. She has had only 2 accidents since the 1st time Colette sat her on the potty. That's almost 6 days of M&M's. Rachel loves marching around the potty and singing the potty song after she goes. She asked to go potty in Target and Colette was amazed that Rachel had no problem sitting on the huge potty and going potty (no shy bladder here). So yes, we happily bought the 1 pound bag of M&M's.




7) Rachel spends on average about 1 hour/day drawing. We give her crayons or washable markers at her plastic table and she draws "noodles". She does switch hands holding the crayon. But she loves drawing her "noodles".




Oh, and on the not so good part of growing up... she has hit the terrible twos. She answers "no" to every question. Our boys didn't have issues with saying "no" too much. So this is new to us. We foresee many future battles "No's vs. Yes's".




Wow, our little baby has grown up so fast. We try to slow her down but sometimes she just knows it's her time to go forward and grow up. Sniff, sniff. In some ways we're sad she's lost some of her baby ways. On the other hand we enjoy seeing her face light up when she discovers something new or makes a new personal achievement.




It's time for Jeff to start wearing his t-shirt that reads "You can't scare me. I have a 2 year old."