Dear Beatrix.
This month you’re 28 months old. Soon you will be able to get a job and start paying rent! ha!
If there was a phrase to explain the month we’ve had it would be “me do it mineself!” You want to do everything yourself, you want to put on your own shoes, you want to choose your own clothes, you want to get into your car seat on your own, you want to buckle yourself in, you want to dress yourself, diaper yourself (when you’re wearing one). All in all, you’ve become one independant little lady! With most things I let you do your thing. We’ve left the house a few times with your shoes on the wrong feet and we’ve been late to somewhere because you’ve insisted on getting yourself in the car and buckled. It’s really all quite cute, and luckily when we’re late our friends understand becasue they have 2 year olds too.
I think I can safely say that you’re nearly potty trained. You don’t wear a diaper at home and have not had any mistakes. I still diaper you when we leave because you won’t go to the potty if I ask you, so when we are out I don’t get warning from you. I hope that soon you’ll start to have a little more warning, or at least get in the habit of telling be before you go so I can get you to a bathroom. We are no where near night time potty trained.
You’re still learning your letters and now we’re working on the sounds that letters make. I think you might be close to reading, maybe even by the end of summer? In any case you love letters and numbers and have cultivated a deeper passion for books. You can sit for hours and have either Daddy or I read to you forever. It makes me so happy! You’ve even started to read to Hudson, I love to watch you, it’s so cute, you “reading” the story and tracing the words with your finger. Cute cute cute.
We have gone skating this month and you had a great time. I think you might be a natural! We used small plastic chairs and you had a great time pushing it around the rink, but even more you loved it when I pushed you in the chair! You figured out how to walk in skates, which is a giant improvement from last month when you couldn’t even stand on them. I think you like to have the taller point of view. I watched you walk all over the waiting area around the rink, looking into garbage bins and into the vending machines. We also started a Mommy and me ballet class this month. While you’ve only had one class, you liked it. You learned how to make ballet arms and do some other more techincal stuff at a toddler level. I think you loved the “Thumbalina” dance the best when you got to pretend you were flying around the room. Also you were so adorable in your little leotard, tights and ballet slippers. So cute. Now I wonder if we fast forward to 15 years from now will you be a prima ballerina or a figure skater. Or perhaps a gymnast, since we’re looking into some gymnastic classes for you.
You and Daddy went to Great America amusement park this month and you had a great time. You went on lots of rides and got very tired. I think we need to get a seasons pass to go there because you had such a good time. Daddy said that you loved the merry go round the best.
This month Hudson has started to make motions towards your toys and you are starting to get more and more possessive of your toys. You’ll proclaim that Hudson is too tiny and that he can’t play with your big girl toys. It’s amusing to watch you take your big girl toy away from him and then give him an appropriate baby toy. We’re reminding you that you need to share your toys with him, and in time, he’ll have to share his toys with you. So far you don’t care that he’ll have to share his, mostly you do not want him to play with your duplo!
Your eating is the same. Although you’ve finally started to tell me when you’re hungry, but mostly it means you want something specific. “Mommy, I’m hungry for chocolate/ strawberries/ mum mums.” You pretty much request these three things several times a day. Sometimes also a banana.
Also what’s with the Mommy? You have gone from calling me Mama to Mommy. I’ve tried correcting you, but it seems I am firmly Mommy. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet.
Anyhow you’re still my sweet girl.
love,
Mama