TWO!

It's hard to write a post for the two year milestone, so I will start with her stats from her appointment:

Weight 24 lbs (15%), Height 33 3/4" (50%)

Dr. Morgan told me she had no concerns whatsoever about Abbie, and I told her I felt the same. But it's always good to hear from a professional. Just for the record, I'll go through a quick list of what my sweet girl is up to these days:

She is sleeping from 8pm until around 6:30-7. This is great considering there for a LONG while she was waking up at 5:30. Now we are actually up before her on most mornings and it's just very pleasant and nice to get some more sleep!! She is also still taking an afternoon nap for 2 hours.

She can say her ABC's, knows her colors, can count pretty high, and can even count some in spanish (thanks Dora!)

She loves to be outside and pretty much every day when we get home, she doesn't want to go in our house. The only reason I ever say no is if I want to get dinner started and Wes isn't home yet, but she is so obsessed with our neighbor that she just wants to see him and asks about him constantly. They play pretty well together and Abbie just adores him. It's very cute. And we also have a sandbox now so she could play in that for hours.

She is definitely exercising her right to being a 2-year old. If I say no or even something that resembles no, about 75% of the time these days it's not a pretty picture. She is very expressive and will tell me flat out that she is mad!

She goes on the potty a lot more now and also asks me to change her if she goes in her diaper. I haven't gotten her to do #2 on the potty yet but I don't think it will be long. A few more months and I'm thinking about getting serious with the potty training. We'll see though.

So despite the "high emotions" as I like to call them, we really are enjoying this age with Abbie. I just love her personality. She is spunky and outgoing and rarely meets a stranger. She is talkative, imaginative, and very energetic. She basically runs and goes non stop until bedtime.

Oh yea, and I almost forgot to tell you guys about her Sesame Street party. Probably most of you that read this were there, but it was a lot of fun. It started raining about 15 minutes into it, so as you can from the pictures above, we set up outside, then moved to the garage, but the rain didn't last long, which was good because I didn't have many indoor activities planned! Outside we had the bounce house, the water table, the sandbox, sidewalk chalk, etc. Abbie had a great time and I think the rest of the kids had fun too. And it was SO nice to have our families here! They helped out with everything and just were nothing but awesome the whole weekend!