An Update on Two

Maddie had her two year visit at the doctors this past week. To nobody's surprise who knows her she is off the charts in her weight, height, and head circumference. However while being off the charts she is proportional and has been growing at a steady rate and the doctor has no concerns with her size as she has been growing at a good rate.

She is where she is supposed to be except for her language skills which for anyone who has met my child knows that she exceeds here. Maddie much like her mother is a talker. The doctor said that at her age they look for 2 to 3 word sentences. Maddie is typically between 5 and 8 words in her sentences and as Jym says she talks in paragraphs. He also mentioned that her pronunciation is very advanced too. We've lucked out on this front and I don't have any idea why but if i had to guess its because we don't speak to her any differently than we do anyone else. Sure we probably don't use as many big words but we don't change our inflection for her.

I think the biggest thing I've noticed with her language skills is that we don't have as many meltdowns as we probably would otherwise because she is good at telling us what she needs. Now don't get me wrong we have had our fair share of meltdowns but I think we've managed to skip a lot of them because she can tell us what she needs and the frustration level isn't as high. I'm very grateful for this as well as for my sweet little girl.

On the temperament front I feel everyday that we've lucked out. She is such a sweet girl and I love watching her imagination grow. One of her new things is to say, "Mom you're the best girl." It just melts my heart. And her imagination these days its great. She will say she needs to make soup for Goofy because he is sick. So she goes to her kitchen and makes him soup. I just love it! I can't wait to see what is in store for us over the next year.

Till the next time!

Early Resolutions

So the end of the year is quickly approaching and I've been thinking about the types of things I'd like to do better next year. Like always there is a pretty long list but I've managed to keep it down to just a few that I'm going to consistently work on. The first is one that I'm really looking forward to is doing a weekly craft/project day/evening with Maddie. Where she goes to school they don't make any projects (which is understandable because of the variety of ages there and we love it for many other reasons) and I figure this gives me the opportunity to do something that I enjoy doing and getting more of that quality time together with her.

And like this year which I didn't do as well as I want I want to try to blog more. I figure if we do a weekly project I can post a picture of the projects we do plus an update of sorts at least twice a month anyways. That way we have a little bit more of something to go back to see what was going on in our lives if we ever get the urge to look back.

I have a few more that are personal resolutions the normal be more active, get the house organized, and figure out a way to keep on top of the laundry. We'll see how that goes but I'm really going to give it a good go. I think it will help our nights be more productive. I figure take it one day at time and some will be good and others will be hard but just remembering tomorrow is a new day and I can't do it all in one day should be helpful.

I'm hoping that at the end of next year I'll have a lot of resolutions that have turned into habit because I think that's the real purpose of a new years resolution. To 2013 being a great year!

Two

Well Maddie is officially two years old. It's hard to believe that she's two already as the time has just flown by. We are still potty training and some days are better than others. Today was a pretty good day where Maddie did all her peeing on the potty. While we're not quite ready to go out in just underwear I've started letting her wear underwear with a pullup over it to contain any messes and we did go to the playground yesterday in just underwear. It's right on our street so i figured if there were any accidents then we could just walk home. Obviously some days are better than others but it's a work in progress and we continue to work on it.

Maddie has been so funny since turning two and even before. The week before turning two every time you asked her how old she was going to be on her birthday she would tell you "two". Now you ask her how old she is, she responds with "two".  My sweet baby girl is two. She is fiercely independent and will tell you exactly what she wants to do but will turn around the next moment and want to snuggle and hug. Her newest thing is to play with her friends (mickey, minnie, goofy, pluto, donald and daisy) and make them soup and have a picnic. She wants to bring at least one of them almost everywhere. For so long there wasn't really anything that she was too attached to and even now she doesn't necessarily pick one friend over the other but it is so sweet to watch her say "Come on Goofy, lets go have a picnic."

As our trip to Disney comes closer Maddie is starting to get very excited. She knows that Disney is after Christmas and that Minnie and Mickey live at Disney. We have recently started watching YouTube videos of Disney to prepare her so she doesn't freak out from the size of the characters. Her favorites are to watch Mickey dancing. I really hope we get to watch him do some dancing while we're there. I'm sure we will find some sort of show for her. Can't wait to post pictures of our trip!