Dear Miss Eliana...you turned two and a half in August...but I didn't want to write all about you...because I didn't believe it...but I guess I should admit it now :) here are some of my favorite photos of you from the past six months and some of what you're doing...
You can count to 11. When you first started counting you left out the number four...but now you have it. You think 11 sounds like 7, so when you get to 11 you go back to 8. So you count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11. :) you silly goose!
You can also sing your abcs :)
You are now to where you listen to your daddy and I talk. You appear to be doing your own thing, but then you chime in on what we are talking about. You also caught on that your dad's name is John and my name is Jenna. So sometimes when you need your daddy you yell "john'" and it istoo funny!
You are potty trained! Woo hoo! Yesterday you went to the bathroom, sat down, and then we heard, pee-u! Then you came to the living room and asked your daddy to come look at your poop! We were so proud of you for going all alone!
You are wearing size 2t/3t panties :)
You are in mostly size. 2 t clothing. You still wear some 24 month...but most is too short now. Hand me down 3t shirts fit....but the pants still fall down.
You currently are not sleeping well. You are up about thre times a night. Your daddy goes in and rubs your back till you fall back asleep....I wish I could figure out how to get you to sleep!
You're still a very picky eater. You eat noodles (macaroni), peanut butter toast, yogurt, apple sauce, chicken nuggets, pop tarts, bread,....that's all I can think of right now...you angel it's not a lot of options!!
You are quite the performer! You will grab a song book and stand in the middle of the living room and sing for us! Sometimes you sing a song you know, like old macdonald or head and shoulders. Sometimes you make up a song (which I love). Then you stop and we clap and you bow and say "very much". For some reason you leave off the thank you.
Sometimes you dump your toys out and flip the boxes over for your stage! :)
You also love to dance for us and with us! :) we can't wait to get you into a dance class next year! :)
You have what I call your nice sentence. You like to be bossy pants and use a not nice tone sometimes. So, obviously, when you were learning to talk we taught you please and thank you...now that you talk in sentences we taught you a sentence. For example, if you want more snack you say, "mommy....can I have more snack...please?" The ... Represents a pause you do. Not sure why you do those dramatic pauses but you do. I would say about fifty percent of the time you use your nice sentence without prompting.
My absolute favorite is when you say thank you without prompting! For example, this morning you wanted more granola bar, I said no, but I said you could have the rest of my juice. You came over, drank my juice, then went back to playing...then you quickly turned around and said, thank you for sharing your juice with me! It was so sweet! Now, if you were only that sweet all the time!
You still love your bath time! You love to play outside! You love the rain....mainly because it means umbrellas and puddles, you love your new sandbox grandpa made. You love to have tea parties. You love to help mommy in the kitchen. You love Popsicles.
Right now your schedule is that you wake up at 6:30 or 7, nap 1 to 3, and we start bedtime routine at 8 so hopefully were in bed at 9. Bedtime routine is bath at 8. TV show at 8:30. I would rather read books to wind down but that doesn't calm you...you just want to read more! So we watch one 20 minute show, then you get to turn the to off and off to bed we go.
As far as shows go....you have a whole lot you like. We got rid of our cable this summer....so now you have to watch netflix. Well, netflix doesn't have the normal disney jr shows you were watching...so we watch a whole group of shows. Your facvorites would be Caillou, Super why, Timmy time (which I think is silly because they don't use any words!!), pingu (which also doe at use words!), and curious George.
You are such a family person. When we are with family you want everyone together. If someone goes to a different room you want to go find them. You do the same thing here at home when our daddy or I leave the room.
Oh, you love shoes. It's hard for knot to lose your shoes because you like to play dress up with them!
You want to be miss independent...which requires more patience for your daddy and I, because things take a little longer, like, we when you want to crawl into your car seat alone and buckle it alone. Or you stretch the neck of your shirt out because you want to put it on or take it off by yourself!
Back to your performing, you just recently started clearing your throat before you perform! I have no idea where you learn these crazy things!
Your daddy mentioned the other day what a vivid imagination you have. You can just pretend play like crazy! You also like to imagine there are monsters and bugs...which then pretend scare you...today you said a giant smashed our house...we had to ask him nicely to please stop so we could save our house ;)
Some of your common sayings:
"Sure do" you say this all the time when we ask you stuff. Like, eliana will you get your shoes? "Sure do!"
"I have an idea" with finger in the air
"Iiiiiii lllloooovvvveeee youuuuuuuuuuu"
"You share with me?"
"Pretty please!"
You are an amazing big sister! I can't believe it! You have only accidentally hit him once and wanted him to leave once. Otherwise you have been so good with him! You always want to kiss him...even when he's sleeping.... Your loudness in the evenings tends to keep him awake but it's not too bad. You always want to share your toys and give hugs. I have to rind you a lot to be gentle when loving on your brother but you do a good job. You also like to hold his hand....and you have to know where he is constantly!
You do a pretty good job listening. You don't have many timeouts....though you probably could have more than we are giving.... :) we are trying to be extra patient while we had all the changes with Easton arriving. But, I think we are back to normal now.
You are such a compassionate girl! If someone is sad you are sad with them. For about two weeks after I had Easton I was a bit emotional (i was the same way with you)I would just cry for no reason (and I would let myself cry, because I believed if I held it in I could maybe get the post partum depression...so sometimes I just cried). So one night I was tearing up as we were having a tea party..you stopped and asked me what was wrong and gave me a hug. You are a very loving young girl. You are sad when others are sad on tv.
You have only hurt Easton once and it was an accident. You were "swiping" something from me, like on dora, and you didn't realize Easton was on my lap and you smacked him on the head. I knew it was an accident so you didn't get in trouble I just comforted Easton and you immediately got tears in y our eyes and told him you were sorry....then you went and sat on the sidewalk and cried because you felt so bad. I hope you are always this sentimental and loving and compassionate towards others and your brother!
Sweet girl...there is never a dull moment around here...we joke that you are such a girl with your dramatic mood swings. One moment you're happy and playing the next moment you are yelling at us! A recent saying in our house has been, she's two. When there are people over and you walk over to the stairs to pout, and the guest looks at us like, what did I do! I thought we were playing? We just shrug and say, she's two.
But regardless we love you and we truly are blessed to be your parents! As exhausted as we may be you are my sweet baby girl and I feel lucky to have you!
I love you,
Mommy
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