You have been telling "stories" lately. My favorite highlight was one night you were standing next to your slide last night and you were telling daddy and me a story about a piggy. It went something like this:
"Piggy. Dark. Night. Dada bite. Piggy Dada bite in night!" interspersed with lots of munchkin mumble. And I said "the daddy piggy bites?' and you looked at us with wide eyes and said "Yyyah!" We of course cracked up!! You answer with that funny dutch accent "Yyyah!" for lots of things which makes us laugh. The other day dada said "When will this rainy cold weather end!" and you mumbled something that sounded like "blah blah blah week" and I said "Another week??" and you looked at me point blank and said "Yyyah?"
When I'm all done teaching and I walk out of my room you smile and cheer "Mama all DONE!!!" It's so cute! You also say "Mama teaching! Dada working!"
The other day I was pretending to talk on the Elmo phone and I was talking about all the things we had done that day. And you were contributing and recalling things we did earlier that day! Your memory is AMAZING! You even remember things from January on our trip to Seattle. "Grama. Tunnel. Cars. White car. Lights. Dark tunnel! Eagle fly!"
We went to visit Great Granda Gigi Ruth on PopPop's 90th b-day. You got to play with her precious rock collection and scoop them up and put them in a candle and then dump them out and repeat the whole process (kept you amused for 20 minutes easy!) and to this day any time I mention Ruth you say "Gigi. Rocks. Candle!"
You discovered picking things up with your toes! You do a super cute excavator impression of "Beep beep, DUMP!" You like to push things around like your slide and say "Beep beep EKA VADDER!!"
You discovered movie night on our giant projector. And everything you request "Movie Night!!" and sometimes we DO do movie night! And one night you squealed "Movie Night!! Mama cut the pizza!!" (even though we weren't having pizza that night!) You love the minions from Despicable me. And most night we request "Movie Night! Minions!" But you are also VERY sensitive to anything scary or upsetting. I don't want to create nightmares, and I've noticed a HUGE difference between G and PG movies!
OK what's up with the super sonic, ear blasting, high pitched screaming for no reason?? I'm trying a new method of just straight up ignoring the behavior and not reacting to it at all since nothing else seems to work. And by the way, I seriously googled "is it ok to use a water spray bottle to squirt at toddlers to deter bad behavior". I guess it's really frowned upon :)
Knock on wood. You are sleeping 7pm-7am and when we come get you you will say "Tigger Bup, upstairs dada!" (or mama if it's daddy walking into your room). Meaning you want to drink your Tigger Cup of milk upstairs in bed with us.
You detest baths and showers at the moment and I have to force bathe you every 2-3 days. I swear boys need a bath twice a day, but that's just me....
Your FAVORITE food is poke, pinapple, ham, eggs, pears, banana, bread, and cheese. But getting you to eat has been a challenge lately. I swear you would just drink whole milk and be 100% content.
You LOVE breakdancing. You ask me and Grandpa Michael to breakdance. I think I'd break my back trying to even pretend.
You have been using your potty to go peepee often. One night during nudie movie night you flew off the couch and ran to use your potty! You get pee pee treats (goldfish).
You say the FUNNIEST things on the baby monitor when you have quiet time. "No cookie monster. No eat cookie. Fox, no drink pee pee. No pee pee on floor". Putting you to bed now, all we have to do is lovingly say "Mama's right here. Dada's right now" and you will chant those words and also include people like "Yay Yay, Tutu, Poppy, Grandma, Michael, and Panda riiiiight here".
What a huge difference two years make!! I love to compare today's pictures/videos with last years pictures/videos and I'm just so amazed at how much you've changed. In my mind, you have always been as you are today. I hardly remember it being any different. I'm so glad I took so many pictures and videos, and yet it still just doesn't seem like enough. I wish I was able to record every second of every day!
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