Tuesday, January 23, 2018

This kid!

I LOVE two. It is so adorable and hilarious (and exasperating). And this kid is absolutely all of those things some or most of the time.

 
 
 

It is amazing how much we are shedding the baby part of our lives. Everyone orders a meal at restaurants, we get four opinions on what we are doing/eating, the diaper bag has morphed into a temporary emergency haz-mat kit now that she is in undies. At her first dentist appointment this week she sat in the dentist chair like a big kid- with Andrew and my assurance. She is deep in the independent stage and can pretty successfully dress herself and buckle the top portion of her car seat depending on how much time you give her. And, the most amazing of all, we can say to the kids “let’s go guys” and more often than not they both ambulate themselves in the general direction of the command (MMV).

It is pretty cool.

It is also interesting how this kid likes to throw us curveballs we never experienced with Andrew. Like when Michael went into her room on Sunday morning to her standing there as a free bird. She is such a nut…will we have to free range her already!?!?!?!



 When we decided to try for another kid the idea of siblinghood wasn’t a very clear picture nor was it a huge goal of mine. But, wow! It is pretty damn precious. Even at this stage it is pretty fun to see how they know each other’s buttons- the things that make the other crazy and the things that make the other happy. They play together, they help each other, they clobber each other. You can definitely see the influence of her big bro in her for better and for worse—she says “na,na,na boo boo” a delightful phrase Andrew picked up on the streets.


This kid is a joy and a delight and hard work and wonderful.  
 
 


 
 

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