Dear Katers,
I’m afraid we may be entering the terrible twos a bit early, which is new territory for me as I don’t feel like Lexi and William really experienced this. You fall apart into an angry little snake if you don’t get something your way. For example, you’ll want a bowl instead of a plate or I say no to a snack right before dinner.
I’m not sure if you’re going to be feisty, or if you’re just almost two and that is just what kids this age due. Time will tell. BUT, you did get into markers several times this month. Lexi and William leave them out and you climb onto things, grab one, run off and then color over the carpet, furniture or the walls. For the most part, the markers have all been washable so they have been pretty easy to clean, except for this one where you found the one non-washable marker we have and drew all over the wall.
I’ve noticed you have huge swings in personality. At one moment you’ll be in a store waving to people, shrugging your shoulders and putting on a huge cuteness show. Then 3 minutes later you are giving people the death glare and won’t make eye contact.
You’re also showing a strong affinity to me. And by strong I mean nobody else can look or talk to you without a snarl when you are in a mood.
I also think you’re very close to potty training. You almost always tell me when you’ve pooped and want to be changed immediately. You’ll run over and get wipes and a diaper to let me know we need to take care of this situation. Over the past couple of days, you’ll announce to me either while you’re going or right after you’ve gone that you’re peeing. You say poop, but there is nothing there–just a wet diaper. So hopefully in the next couple of months we can ‘see-ya’ later to diapers.
Vocab continues to grow; Tate (aka Kate), Badger, sure, grammy, milk, turtle, fish, blue (and can identify the color often too)
At the beginning of the you’re month, we took a family vaca to Florida. After lots of flight drama, we ended up in Orlando so we spent a day in Disney and then drove to PCB to stay with Grammy and Papa for the rest of our time. You did really good on the planes and surprised me by falling asleep.
You also really love to play at the beach. You could have sat there and filled buckets with sand for hours. The weather wasn’t great, so we didn’t swim as much as I would have liked, but you did do OK in the pool–still refuse to lay on your back, but we’ll keep working on it. By far, your favorite thing to do was go for walks. You begged to go and love sitting in the stroller (which you call it babies)
Katelyn Ann, you challenge your Daddy and I everyday with your constant requests to eat, hanging and climbing all over us and lack of patience to get exactly what you want when you want it, but you have both of us wrapped around your chunky little fingers more than you can every understand. You flash that cute little smile and twinkle your eyes and we have forgotten how tiring you can be. We love you to bits sweet girl.
Love,
Mommies (as you like to call me)
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