Eating: Typically Em eats 3 meals a day with no snacks. We try not to have her eat between meals because she eats better at meal time when she hasn't been snacking all day. Some days she eats great, others, not so much. She loves waffles and sausage for breakfast and if you ask her what she wants to eat 9 times out of 10 she says, "ummm WAFFLES!" Mac and cheese remains a staple favorite a long with all the fruits, especially grapes and strawberries, and if you want her to eat vegetables, broccoli, corn, cauliflower, green beans and carrots almost always make it down the shoot. The girl loves chocolate, which I try not to give her too often and she is also a huge fan of soy butter. She eats it right off the spoon. However, her latest addiction is, coffee. She loves to take sips of Mom's coffee in the morning and you know what, I let her, because why not?!
Sleeping: Typically she still takes a 2-3 hour nap in the afternoon and sleeps from 7ish-7ish. Her taking a nap is crucial and we have let her go a few days without a nap only to regret it terribly around dinner time. It's really just best for all parties involved that the girl get a nap and I'm not pushing her to stop taking them. Her night time sleep has been really great and although things were a bit messed up during the time change we have gotten back into a pretty good routine. Our next goal is to tackle her consistently sleeping in her big girl bed, but I'm not sure when we will face that challenge.
Wearing: Mostly 2T, which I'm thinking she will be in for a while? Not really how sure kids out grow clothes at this point, I guess we'll see. She is also forming an opinion about her clothes and loves to pick between outfits that I lay out for her.
Favorites: We may have a future Olympian on our hands. Whether it's a gymnast or a swimmer, I'm not sure, but the girl loves both activities and I love being able to have her involved in them. We even caught her teaching her stuffed animals to swim on the baby camera when she was supposed to be taking a nap. She loves to sing and dance and so often I am being chased down to have an impromptu dance party when a song comes on during a TV show or movie. Disney movies are becoming quite popular in our household, not that they weren't popular before with the adults. Toy Story, Frozen and Lion King are the ones that she usually picks for movie time. The calls Lion King, "Tata," because of the song Hakuna Matata and it is THE CUTEST thing when she decides to belt out the song. She gets so into her singing that she throws in hand motions and closes her eyes when she's holding a note. It has got to be one of my favorite things that she does.
Not so favorites: Diaper changes. I keep telling her that if she just peed and pooped in the big girl potty that we wouldn't have to change her diaper...not working. We'll see about starting the potty training after the holidays, maybe. She's also not the biggest fan of her baby brother crying and it typically leads to two responses, her crying and asking to be held or her trying to find his pacifier to calm him down. I prefer the later.
EPL you amaze me everyday. Your spunk and zeal for life bring me so much joy and I can't say enough how thankful that I am that God chose me to be your Mom. You are fearless and sometimes reckless, loving, kind and a bit feisty, but all together you are ONEderful and it's hard to believe that you will soon be a two year old! Bring on the adventure!
