Terribly Two

That face! How could that little angel possibly be "terrible?" Well, she's not terrible. She's just, terribly two. It's as if she knows what's expected of 2 year olds. She's got a bit of an attitude when she doesn't get to watch her shows all day. My fault. I let her for awhile because I wasn't feeling good and I'm still too exhausted to care most mornings. I just don't want her watching all day every day. If we're driving longer than 10 minutes she wants a video on the car. *sigh*

She is getting very independent with her movies. She wants to choose which one to watch. Most of the time it's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I don't mind that, I'll watch it 3 times a day. (And we do) It's the Baby Einsteins that drive me nuts because they're only 30 minutes long. Once it goes back to the menu screen she says, "Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!" and has to pick another one. Herself. I can't pick it, because obviously I'm just dumb ol' mommy who doesn't know how to pick good movies. If she's eating I'll get up and get one. Yesterday once I put the new movie in she said, "Yay! Good job!"

She's been ready for her naps earlier in the day. Here she is falling asleep in the shopping cart at WalMart. This is a nice thing for me because I don't feel like I've wasted my afternoon if I nap with her for 2 hours. But now she is eating lunch after so it throws off snack time. Big woop. She's napping. That's all I care about!

She is quite the character. She does this shoulder dance that cracks us up. Her dancing used to consist of just bouncing up and down, but now she wiggles. I haven't been able to get it on video because she normally doesn't do it for very long. I'll get it one of these days. She does sing along with things a lot more now. Here she is singing "I See The Light" from Tangled.

Her ability to match pitch is getting a lot better. She nailed the end of the first verse, but I didn't get my phone up until the second verse.

So aside from being grumpy and opinionated and kicky, she's really not so terrible. She goes to bed pretty well in her "big girl bed." Her crib is in the toddler bed position and my bed is pushed up against it so she's not sleeping with me, but near enough that she doesn't feel abandoned, yet. She gets in bed with me around 5:30 every morning. It's not so bad because the past couple of days she's been sleeping later and lord knows I can use all the sleep I can get!

We haven't really started any potty training yet. She has a potty and she knows how to sit on it. But she also has the desire to stand in it most of the time. She isn't really giving me any signs of being ready. She doesn't tell me when she is wet and doesn't mind when she is. She'll sometimes go big potty in another room but most times does it where ever she is when inspiration strikes. She has brought us her diapers and wipes twice when she needed a change, but other than that nothing points to being ready. Oh well. I've got 5 more months to get her out of diapers!