We went to the Dr today for Evette's 2 year old check up - can't believe we're at that point. The whole way there she was saying "Doctor house! Fish! Doctor house! Fish!" There's an aquarium in the waiting area - It's amazing how much she comprehends.
She did great! She loves her Dr - she plays with him, helps him with his stethoscope, etc... He's the cutest old man and he's good to us - plus he validates me as a
She's at the 60th percentile for weight and 91st percentile for height - tall girl! She got the flu mist [spray in the nose instead of a shot], tested for lead in her blood, and finished up her immunizations! Hooray! She was a brave girl.
And just for personal records - she's in size 5 diapers, recently moved into size 7 shoes, and will move into 3T clothes as soon as I wash them all and put them in her dresser.
She sleeps 14-15 hours a day. 12-13 at night and a 1.5-3 hour nap sometime after lunch [around 1 but we can push it back to 3ish without too much craziness if necessary]. She still sleeps with her "paci." I tried weening her off of that a couple weeks ago but after a couple days of missed naps I figured I had tortured my pregnant self long enough and gave up. Maybe another time.
She is a great little eater and has quite a sophisticated palate. She enjoys curry, salmon, and gnocchi as well as normal stuff like bananas, peanut butter crackers, and chocolate milk. She eats pretty much everything we put in front of her and eats a lot.
I feel like everyday she is adding at least one new word to her already massive list of words she can say, not to mention that she understands everything. I mean she is even learning all the different type of bug names like "ant, butterfly, bumblebee". I feel like her approach to talking is the same as it was to her walking. Most babies learn to stand, take a few wobbly steps at a time, but Evette, she just let go of the couch and started running. She would just run until she lost her balance and fell over. It's like she didn't know she was supposed to walk before you run - she just ran. Same with her talking - she just all of a sudden uses a new word that I've never heard her try to say before in a sentence - like hot dog, or penguin, or something else crazy. She's also stringing 5+ words together to build sentences. Like "Daddy work all done house!" when we pick up Sean from the train to take him home or "Mom more apple juice please!" or one of my favorites "Mommy all done poop Evette help wash hands" as she watches me go to the bathroom and then turns on the water to help me out - oh to be a mother lol!
She is working on learning the alphabet right now and it's adorable. I'll hear her singing in to herself while she's playing - she knows "phrases" of the song and sings them over and over again like "e-f-g....lno--e-f-g....lno" I once heard her say e-w all by herself. Amazing. She can also count all the way up to 10 but sometimes get stuck at 7 "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 6, 7, 6, 7..." We've also got a couple colors and shapes down.
She's also quite the artist and likes to color in the lines [see this picture? She drew all those lines inside her body as she was saying "feet, arm, hand, eye, ear, forehead, mouth"], draw airplanes, and practice writing her name along with all her friends [by write names I mean drawing lines while saying letters like "e...e...e...o....s..." it's adorable.
She loves her baby dolls - she reads them books, feeds them, bathes them, changes their diapers, and helps me color, clean, takes them on walks, puts them to bed "Shh! nigh nigh! love you!" She's such a good little mommy!
She's such an outgoing little girl who loves her friends so much! Absolutely no inhibition when it comes to her friends - she wants to play and hold hands and wrestle and just love them so much. She just loves them and wants to be loved - some kids are not so open to being so loved - she just has a big heart.
She loves loves loves loves loves to read, loves her choochoo trains, loves to color, loves her duplos, loves to help cook, loves to help do the dishes, loves to play with her chalk, loves to play and sing songs on the piano.
She lives life uninhibitedly and I admire that.
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