For Annie’s second birthday she wanted Yo Gabba Gabba, balloons, friends, and cake. Of course the first three things would’ve been meaningless without cake because the girl is cake crazy. Ever since Mike’s birthday six weeks ago she has been asking, “Birthday cake? Birthday cake today, mama?” It was a happy feeling to be able to say to her, “Yes, Annie! Birthday cake today!”
Cake for everyone!
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If you lead, I will follow.
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Dr. Looove is out of town all this week and next, so Annie won’t have her two-year well-baby visit until the second week of February. The nerve of Dr. Looove to go on vacation right now! I can’t wait that long to do Annie’s 24-month round up so, as Annie would say, “I DO IT MYSELF!!!”
weight: 30 pounds 8 ounces
height: 36 inches
head: 20 inches
hair: borderline dreadlocks
(month one, month two, month three, month four, month five, month six, month seven, month eight, month nine, month ten, month eleven, month twelve, month fifteen, month eighteen)
According to my handy app that I use to keep track of Annie’s growth, she is in the 89th percentile for weight, the 94th percentile for height, and the 97th for head size. She gained a little more than a pound in six months, but she grew two and a half inches. She’s losing all that delicious baby chub! It makes me a little sad. Annie really isn’t a baby anymore.
My mom subscribes to those emails, “My Toddler This Week” and she loves telling us that Annie is right on target with her behaviors. There are some things I wish she was more advanced in. Like…sleeping through the night (she still wakes up screaming sometimes) or…conflict resolution (yelling at the dog solves nothing).
This was our first green chair photoshoot in our new house. She now can climb into the chair herself, and knows how to make it spin and rock. I’d readjust the chair, only to have her start wiggling and moving it around again. Instead of grabbing the blocks, she very carefully made sure they were lined up properly.
The lens on my camera also started acting funny about halfway through the shoot, but I didn’t know the extent until after (fuzzy out-of-focus pictures, boo). I think for a belated birthday present Annie needs a new camera lens, don’t you agree, Mike?
I went back through her old monthly shots and was unsurprisingly blown away by how much she’s changed.
four days old
six months old
twelve months old
eighteen months old
twenty four months old
We’re at the point now where these green chair photos will only be taken once a year, on her birthday. She really isn’t a baby anymore (I have to keep reminding myself).
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When it comes to eating out my Mom is the world’s easiest mark. She will sit down with plans to eat healthy, but all is lost the minute the waiter says, “We have some amazing specials tonight!” or “Did you see our appetizers are half off?” Later, as we stumble out to the parking lot, she always turns to me and grouses, “Why did you let me eat all that?”
Hey… I get it. Eating healthy at restaurants is hard. I too have entered a restaurant or seventy with the best of intentions only to later make the “walk of shame” to the parking lot in a chicken wings/cheeseburger/chocolate cake induced stupor. [continue reading…]
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