Today, you turned two.
You celebrated your birthday yesterday too, at school. Because, yes, you now go to school. Two mornings per week.
You are entering your second week of wearing undies during the day because you really like to use the potty.
You speak in complex and exciting sentences, often with multiple directives: “Carol needs to go to sleep now, change diaper, need pow-der, then carol needs to go to sleep.”and “Avi and mama put shoes on, then find Carol, then put her in the stroller, than go for a walk.”
When you’re excited, you have a harder time starting sentences, interrupting yourself with rapid bursts of breathing and things like, “and-and-and-and” “then-then-the-the.”
You know a lot of nursey rhymes by heart and like to recite them when you play. Sometimes you mush them together to make new rhymes.
You sleep in a big girl bed and drink from a big girl cup, and you are all done nursing.
You love to take walks. Lately, you’ve been taking your doggie to pull along with you, the one that used to be mine. Although, sometimes, you take Carol out in the stroller.
You have a thinking face when you think out loud about finding something or making a serious decision. It involves scrunching your face up tight and sticking your mouth out.
It turns out that your favorite color is purple, although pink is a close second.
You just told me that you want to be a “white fuzzy mouse” for Halloween.
Your favorite dolls are Carol, Baby Kevin, Flower, and Spike. In that order. Although Spike and Flower might be a tie.
Often, when you ask permission to do something, you answer yourself, “Can Avi share with mama?” and then you say to us, “Sure!” even if I haven’t said yes yet.
When I ask you what you want to wear today, you have been known to say, “a cute outfit.”
You still speak with a funny accent: th = y. c = t. r = w. banana = dabana. cute = tute. that = yat. Carol = Tarol.
You can jump with both feet, climb up and downstairs without the railing, can identify several letters including “A”, “M”, “D”, and “O,” can toss a ball, can ride a rocking horse, and can do a wheelbarrow walk (this last one took some practice since you needed to learn how to coordinate your arms properly).
You love to dance, sing, and listen to music. Lately, we’ve been listening to “Thumbelina” be read aloud on a cd which you really like. Your favorite books are rhyming ones.
You are amazing.
Happy Birthday, Child of My Heart.
May you always see the funny rhymes in life.
Oh, serahrose–I laughed and teared up all through this… Happy Birthday, Avi.
I love the answering her own polite questions with “sure!” That’s atoddler classic. So sweet.
Happy two years as a mother to you…
Happy birthday! May she ocntinue to be so full of life and love!
argh.. continue
Happy Birthday Avi!!!
My favorite doll as a kid (and I think my mom still has it stashed away) was a cabbage patch doll named — CAROL PAIGE. Reading this reminded me of her & now I miss her.
Happy Birthday Avi! Congratulations SerahRose!
You have such a smart girl! I hope Ella is 1/2 as smart and cute and funny as Avi.
And, oh yeah, Happy Birthday!
Belated happy 2nd birthday Avi!
Congratulations SerahRose, from a quick read of your older posts it seems you have gone through so much. All the best! *hugs*
Happy Birthday indeed!
We drive 2 hours to celebrate with the Avi-girl and her Mama, and over and back SerahRose’s Dad and I talk about the passing of the years! It seemed only yesterday we were driving those two hours awaiting Avi’s debut. Of course, I’m pretty sure it was only the day before yesterday that SerahRose arrived.
How much we wish we had this type of venue to record our little girl’s growth and what we thought – but then again would we find the time:)!?
We do know that we paid close enough attention to SerahRose’s childhood to know that Avi is a pretty close repeat, and we’re fascinated by that. And yet, I know that this is just the beginning of the blooming of this child – she shows her own preferences and – like her Mama – will keep blooming and blooming!
By the way, SerahRose showed a quick love of “girly” things more around 5 or 6 I think. SerahRose’s very early, under 1, and first love for a long time was nature, specifically bugs and things that were alive.