22 Months Today!

It's hard to believe we'll be celebrating P's second birthday in a few short months. Lots of moms tell me that this age - really 18 months to 2ish - is one of their favorites. And while I haven't seen what's yet to come, Mike and I are truly enjoying all of Paisley's personality traits these days. Since I am a bad mom and have not kept up with a baby book per se, I want to make sure I am keeping track of Paisley's milestones along the way, if nowhere else, than on this blog.

So, P, here's what you've been up to these last few months:

1)learning your colors: you've mastered quite a few, including pink, blue, red, white, brown, yellow, orange, purple and de-um (green). You love to attach the color of something to it when you point it out - like your "de-um froggy", which is your most favorite stuffed animal right now.

2)Speaking of, you sleep with froggy every night, and he keeps you company by singing songs, talking about hands and feet and dancing... You can play for a very long time with him in your crib before you fall asleep. And just for the record, his music drives me nuts sometimes!

3)I think this is partly due to Dora, but you can amazingly count to 11, and we've even heard you count backward from 5 a few times. Whenever you, me and dad are out somewhere, you want us to each hold one of your hands while you say "1, 2... 1, 2..." and then you very adamantly expect us to lift you up for a big swing through the air. It's quite cute, and good for mom's arm muscles.

4)You aren't much of an eater. The doctor's been on us about your weight gain issues, and you are a very skinny almost-two-year old. I'd have to say, of all issues I thought I'd run into as a mom, this certainly wasn't one of them. I guess you're just going to inherit Aunt Heather's body type, and that's fine by me, considering she's so beautiful. If you could emulate her behavior as well, that'd be awesome! :) When you do eat, you expect dip, either "ranch dip" which you will ask for by name or ketchup, which you will also ask for. You'll dip anything into those 2 items, and I mean anything. When there's a meal had without dip, we can forget about you being much interested.

You love to tell all things "night night" before bed - colors, toons (cartoons), stickers, books, Mack and Shelby of course, and mom and dad too. You still give big open mouth kisses (guess we'll have to work on that one at some point), you say "wuv you" a lot, and when you give hugs, you will lean into the person, but you don't really feel its necessary to hug with your arms quite yet. :)

Love you baby girl! You make life so much fun, every day. I can't imagine life without you, and thank you for helping mom and dad remember what's important!!