23 Months

I can't believe that my little booger is going to be 2 in just two short weeks! She is such a big girl, I am so proud of her!  She can now speak 3-4 word sentences and is able to pronounce up to 4 syllable words like cin-de-rell-a, beautiful, ac-ci-dent, boo-sk-ers.  She counts very well, all the way to 20 now, but tends to skip around a bit when she isn't concentrating, really though how much of that can you expect from an almost 2 yr old.   She can not only recite the entire alphabet, but recognizes all the letters out of sequence.  We don't really have anyone to compare her to so the last time that we saw the Dr. we asked where abouts she ranked, her exact words were "the earliest I have ever seen a child know all of that, she exceeds it."  So we may have ourselves a real live baby Einstein (not that I didn't already know that before she was born, only now the skeptics are eating their words).  She is all over her opposites and has no problems following instructions that include them.  Still the most polite little one in town, what a BLESSING!

As you may notice I am a little behind getting this blog out, due to the fact that on Addie's 23 month birthday she became a big sister!  What an awesome big sister she has been too!  We really thought that she was going to have issues with mommy having the baby with her at all times but she has taken to baby Cara like she has always been here.  "Baby Cara"  makes her way into just about every conversation, she checks up on her constantly and makes sure that she loves on her lots.  Funny thing is that Addie was able to put two and two together on her own where baby Cara came from, the other day out of the blue she walked up to me and patted my belly (I wasn't even holding Cara at the time) and said "Baby Ter (Cara) out mommy belly".  Yes ma'am you smart little booger, Baby Cara came out of mommy's belly. 

She never ceases to amaze us!  Chris is loving this new situation (Mommy having her infant and Daddy getting his little girl) of the once Mommy's girl now back to Daddy being the apple of her eye.  She has adjusted so well to having Daddy do ALL of the bedtime routine now and so far has had no sort of relapse or regression as everyone said she would.  She does like sitting in Cara's car seat but I don't think it is a thing, she knows it is the baby's seat and not hers.  Anyway who wouldn't want to sit in a snugly recliner if you could fit in it.  She does like to get down in the floor beside Cara and read books to her or sometimes she will lay down and go night night beside her.  But nothing has seemed to change her big girl role. 
She is getting really good at talking on the phone and actually being able to carry on a conversation with out prompting to the voice on the other side.  It is so cute, to see her do that and then there are times when she gets her play phone and is just walking around the house talking on it.  She mainly calls Pa, Daddy and Grams. Just yesterday she was playing nicely by herself then all of a sudden picked up her phone, flipped it open and said "hello Pa, ice cream, sure!" and hung up.  So I am not really sure what Pa has been telling her...