Twenty Two Months

My babe is growing up way too fast.  It seems as though the majority of her growing up as happened in the last six weeks.  Her vocabulary has exploded and Little Sister is starting to speak two and three word sentences.  Granted, one of those sentences was, "Oh, shit!", but, I'll take it...at least it was used in the proper context (she dropped her cup of water).  It didn't help that Mike and I fell over in a heap of laughter which only prompted Sister to repeat it over and over and over again.  When we were done wiping the tears from our eyes, we made a promise to never acknowledge those words again.  And to stop using swear words when she's around.

In the category of more appropriate word usage, Kat loves to say, "Oh no! What happen?" every chance she gets...if there's a loud noise, if someone drops something, if music stops playing etcetera etcetera.  The following list is more for my record-keeping sake than it will be of interest to you, but here are all the words (that I can think of) that Kat currently says:

- baby, Mommy, Daddy, Joel, Grandma, Grandpa, Shandi, puppy Kitty, blanket, bottle (ba-ba), bath, shirt, pants, shoes, socks, grapes, banana, milk, cookie, dip, spoon, eat, up, down, NO!, sit, go, stop, light, night-night, sleep, book, movie, Elmo, Pocoyo (a cartoon chracter), diaper, poop, eye, nose, ear, mouth, hands, toes and help.

The phrases she says are: "Where it go?", "What happen?", and "What you do?" (the last one always makes me giggle).

This is Kat, at twenty-two months:

- loves reading books (by herself and listening to them)

- loves to help with everything (emptying the dishwasher, cleaning floors, emptying shopping bags etc)

- hates wearing socks

- loves to pick her toe jam (and everyone else's)

- likes to sit on the ledge in the fridge to have her poops

- is starting to pick out what she wants to wear

- favourite word is, "No!" and she can sound like a grumpy, old man when she says it

- loves baths and splashing in any container with water

- loves to pretend she's cooking

- wants to kiss anyone and everyone as they are leaving

- knows that when the Skype signal is bouncing up and down, it means she gets to talk to Grandma and Grandpa

- loves to chat on her cell phone

- loves the swing in the park

- can operate an iPod touch (and not just by fluke)...she can start it up and open her favourite game)

- doesn't care for TV, but she loves her some Elmo movies

- sleeps until 9:00am, goes to bed at 9:00pm

- favourite food = carrots and poppy seed dressing, grapes and yogurt

- is terrified of our family doctor, even though he is extremely gentle (she's hated him ever since he tried to look in her ears at her one year check-up)...Sister screams as soon as we start walking down the hall to his office and doesn't stop until we leave (good times, I tell you)

- loves her "baby"...feeding it, dressing it, putting it to sleep

*****

After supper, Kat likes to strip down and hang out in the kitchen.  I'm hoping her affinity for being topless doesn't lead her to a career in that area.

Enjoying a walk on a cold, fall day (Sister also doesn't like to wear mittens)

One of the last pairs of one-piece pjs she'll wear...they don't make them in extra tall sizes!

A pretty little kitty cat

A summer fairy dress with leggings and winter boots...this kid has style :)

Well, hello Terrible Twos...I've been wondering when you were going to show up