At your 2 year old check up : Date: 11/23/2016
weight: 28.5 lbs (64th percentile)
height: 35.25 inches (85th percentile)
head: 18.50 inches (32nd percentile)
I swear you are going through a growth spurt because you are so cranky and always needing a nap. You are so reliant upon your Binky still; and now you have a favorite which you loose like 20 times a day so it is becoming difficult to find it.
You only get bottles (sippy cups) at nap time or bedtime. The rest of the time you drink out of a regular kids cup.
You are becoming quite a little stinker, you have started rolling your eyes when I ask you to do something. You have started telling me no. When i say it's time to leave and I say bye, you say bye back to me and continue to do what you were doing.
You and Sydney have started fighting over everything!!! Occasionally at night, after we've put you to bed, you will get out of bed and play nicely with each other. But you two are always wanting what the other has. It's getting really bad.
You have started treating William the way Sydney treats you and I am heartbroken over that fact. I am sorry your older sister doesn't treat you better.
Lately you and Sydney have been playing this game where you run away from William and he chases you. I love to see you all playing together.
We have been trying to potty train you for about 4 months now, and in the last month and a half (when i remember to ask) you have gone in the toilet 7 times!!!! Yay!!!! I usually forget you aren't wearing a diaper and you end up peeing on the floor. You have started to be able to tell me (when I ask) if you do need to go potty.
You've gotten kind of picky. A lot of times you don't eat your dinner and then you are super hungry at bedtime. And then there are times when you won't eat your dinner, but you'll eat mine. My beautiful, silly little girl.
You love love love apples. You ask to eat an apple all the time. Even when you wake up crying in the middle of the night. You cry for an apple and binky.
Whenever I am talking to someone on the phone you think it's daddy, so you sit there and ask me "talk to daddy" until i either hang up (which makes you sad) or i give you the phone. And if i give you the phone, I usually have to hand up from whoever I am talking with and call your dad. Those phone calls last 30 seconds. But you love them.
In fact, you love your dad. He comes home from work and you run right to him. You get hurt and he isn't around you call for daddy.
By the time you turned 2 you were able to go up and down the stairs by yourself, and now you are pretty proficient at it. I am glad you still go fairly slow, safety first, especially with 3 flights of stairs.
Baby dolls are your favorite.
You got into coloring last month (Nov 18th), was the first time you asked to color (not the first time you colored mind you, but the first time you asked). You have your own little folder for your paper and crayons, and in the beginning you sat on the kitchen floor and would color for an hour at a time, but now you only do it for 15 min or so, and prefer to be able to color in little notebooks like big sister does.
I do feel bad, my dear sweet Elizabeth, because, unlike Sydney when she was little and we were living in Cedar City, you really haven't been able to go outside and play whenever you have wanted. By the time you were old enough to really play outside, I was big pregnant and it was winter, and then William came. Not to mention living on the 3rd floor hardly makes it easy to just go outside and play.
You hate having your hands dirty. While eating, if they even get a tiny bit dirty you request a wipe.
You love to copy Sydney and a lot of the time it leads to a fight with her.
You love William. If he is crying you come up and let me know. You try to carry him (which is nearly impossible since you are only 10 lbs apart). You also try to pull him up by his arm sometimes.
When I am reading a book aloud, you have to sit right in my lap and help turn the pages. And once you turn a page, Sydney wants to, and that leads to a page turning fight between the two of you.
You have been doing extremely well since we put you on the bottom bunk bed. You sleep there very easily, even during nap times now. The only problem is that while you and Sydney are in your room for the night, sometimes you get up to play. That leads to two things happening: all the toys getting dumped back out and you two fighting over toys.
I am so proud of the little girl you are. Watching you run and play just gives me such joy. Your smile lights up the room. Daddy and I love you so very much.
Love, Mom.
The pictures below show your progress throughout 2016.
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| First hair cut in May 2016 |
