Dear Q,
In two months you will be two years old and this fact completely blows my mind! Nearly all traces of Baby Q are gone and you are quickly morphing into a little girl.
There is so much going on with you that I don’t want to forget so this is going to be a long letter!
You’ve had a verbal EXPLOSION over the past few weeks and you not only repeat but remember pretty much everything we say. You are speaking in phrases now. You say “What doing?” to the cats whenever you see them. You also say it to us and sometimes to yourself. You call Stella using the “pssss pssss” noise that I use to call her. “Where Dellas? DEEEELLLLLLLAS!!! psss psss psss” so funny.
You love to call people from my phone and know who is who on my favorites menu without any help. You’ll say “Call Papa” go to favorites, tap my dad’s name, put it on speaker and then go back to looking at pictures until he answers. Although when he answers you usually just wave instead of talking. You LOVE Facetime though. It’s such a fabulous invention! I grew up thinking video chat was something crazy futuristic and now we use it almost every day from our handheld devices.
Last week you wanted to call a few people who were busy at the time and when I said “busy” you said “Izzy!” (your cousin) so we went to facebook to look at pictures of Izzy. Now your favorite thing is “Izzy Pictures!” and since Facebook can take awhile to load you say “Wait. Waaaaait. Here comes! Here comes!” which is apparently what I’ve been saying to you while the page loads.
Sometimes you’ll just say “More” and I won’t know what you’re asking for so I’ll say “More what, honey?” and you’ll say “More, Please!” which is funny since that’s not the prompt I use for please but I’ll take it.
You’ve also picked up “Bless You” this week and most often say it to George who sneezes a lot. 🙂 You’ll also pretend to sneeze and say “Bless you Q”. 🙂
You like to put the seat on the potty, sit on it for a second, “wipe” yourself and then flush the sheet of toilet paper. You do this all with clothes on but we’re starting to make diaperless potty time a part of the day. You know when you have gone to the bathroom because you tell me each time. I’m hoping this awareness will translate into knowing when you’re about to go so we can get you on the potty. We’re taking it slow.
Just in the past few days you started sleeping well again, after a few weeks of really awful sleep. I really hopes it sticks! Everyone has MUCH better days when we get to sleep at night!
You’ve started giving everything kisses. the cats, the bath water, my belly, today you even kissed my armpit… weirdo. 🙂 It’s super cute. We aren’t nursing as much anymore but you love to cuddle my belly and give it lots of kisses. You’ll lift up my shirt and snuggle your face against my belly and say “Cuddle!!”. I love it. You also say good morning and good night to the baby and my heart sings.
You learn new skills every day. Recently you’ve mastered: Stacking legos, taking crayons in and out the box, moving your step stool to the sink to stand on while you “wash hands”, and you are able to go down the front steps without holding on to anything (although we are always there to spot you). Whenever you accomplish one of these things you shout “I DID IT!!” and giggle with glee. It makes me so happy.
You love the water. You are truly a child of summer. We just got you a water table to play with outside and it has provided hours and hours of fun. I can’t wait for the pool to open and to start your swimming lessons! We are going to have so much fun this summer.
You have started asking for songs and have started to sing along. When you sing the AB’s (as you call them) you definitely skip letters here and there but you totally have a handle on it. On other songs you’ll prompt us with the first few words of the next line if we stop and start. You like to dance, especially while standing on chairs, and you’ve learned to march, spin and stomp your feet. You’ve also started really running.
I haven’t taken as many photos lately as I’d have liked since I’ve been so sick but I promise to share more soon. Sometimes it’s nice to be totally unplugged and hang out with you. I love our one on one time!
The more time I spend on this post, the more I’m going to think of so I’m going to wrap it up.
I love watching you grow. I love spending my days with you. You are smart, sweet, funny and adorable. You are my precious first born.
I love you,
Mama
