We went to the doctor a few days after her 2nd birthday. She did SUCH a good job. She did everything that was asked of her and only cried a little bit after she got her shot, but since the nurse had brought her a Dora and a Bubble Guppies sticker, everything was just fine pretty quickly.
She was 34" tall (72nd percentile) and 28 pounds (67th percentile). She is growing fantastically and the doctor thinks that she will be somewhere around 5'7" when she grows up based on her numbers now. That sounds about right!
Caroline is the most awesome little kid. I know she is mine and I am supposed to say that, but she makes me laugh every day with the things that she says and she is so smart - too smart for her own good sometimes. She is starting to press buttons and become a full steam ahead two year old, but the good very much out weighs the bad and I wouldn't change a second of it.
Her are some things I want to remember about my little two year old:
The girl still gets hiccups every single time she laughs, and has since the day she was born.
Her laugh is amazing and I wish I could bottle it up and hold onto it forever.
She is such a great eater. She is not very picky, but when there is something she doesn't want she will stick her tongue out and say, 'Don't want that!'
She still is a champion sleeper. She is in bed around 8 every night and we usually get her up around 7:15 on school days. She has been known to sleep in until 9 on weekends. She still asks to go to bed every now and then, which we certainly don't turn down. At home she takes between a 2 and 4 hour nap in the afternoons. Daycare naps, not so much. We get really excited about an hour. Girl is too busy singing and talking to her friends to waste time on some nap!
She knows how to go to the potty, but is very uninterested. That is ok with me. I still ask her every once in a while, but I'm going to wait until she is ready. No need to stir up disaster by pushing her.
Her vocabulary is out of control. There is very little that she can't say and say correctly. She knows exactly what she wants all the time and is not afraid to share it with you.
Her eyes are still as blue as they can be. They are beautiful and I hope she keeps those bad boys forever.
She is a two year old and throws fits. She will throw herself on the ground, cry, and she even gets an Elvis leg where she will stand on one leg and just shake the mess out of the other leg. I wish I knew where she got that from! She is quite familiar with the time out chair and I feel like she will be spending more time in the future!
She loves to dance, but her dancing (for the most part) is running around in a circle. We'll have to work on that!
She is starting to sing. It is just about the cutest thing I've ever seen. She will sing Twinkle Twinkle, Wheels on the Bus, Sweet Caroline (!), Be Home!, and several other awesome renditions of stuff you may know!
Some gems that I posted on Facebook:
Looking at the neighbors yard decorations that change colors.
Caroline: 'Orange!'
Me: 'That's right, that is orange!'
Caroline: 'Good job, Mommy!'
Caroline: (Pointing to the top of my head.) 'Head. Mommy's head. Big head, mommy.'
Apparently they are teaching Caroline Spanish at school.
Me: (After reading a few pages of her new Dora book and being excited that they were counting in Spanish) 'Four in Spanish is cuatro. Can you say cuatro?'
C: 'Cuatro. Cinco.'
Well played, little one, well played.
Any time we pass a truck.
C: 'That's Daddy's truck. Naawww! Not Daddy's truck. Daddy's truck white. Silly truck.'
Me: 'Caroline, how old will you be tomorrow?'
C: (holding up both pointer fingers) 'Carowine 2 old!'
C: 'Mommy, I running away!' (Where she got that, I have no idea.)
Me: (fake crying) 'Don't go. I'd miss you too much!'
C: (grabbing my face with her hands) 'Mommy, look at me. Don't worry. I stay with you.'
Bless her heart.
Me: 'Hey, Caroline, I need you to stop playing and eat your breakfast. We need to go.'
C: 'My name is Duwine. Jack Jack calls me Duwine.'
Me: 'Well, alright, Duwine. We need to go!'
She does love her presents (cousins)!
Playing with stickers this morning.
C: 'I want the mommy snunk and the daddy snunk.'
If she makes it into kindergarten calling them that, I may tell her then that they are skunks.
C: (waking up from her nap) 'My Daddy will be home in just a minute.'
Me: 'That's right. And once Daddy gets home Mommy is going to go to work and you and Daddy can hang out.'
C: 'Dat be cool.'
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