Monkey see...monkey do

We had Anna's second birthday party on Saturday and the theme was "monkey see...monkey do" with lime green and pink dots and girly monkeys.

The kids helped me prepare for the party on Friday by unwrapping Hershey Kisses (we tuck those into the chocolate cupcakes as a treat) and helping to bake the cupcakes and mini chocolate chip cookies. Anna took her unwrapping duties very seriously!

Her big gifts from us were a giant doll house with tons of accessories (thanks to a super Craigslist bargain) and a mini trampoline for inside the house. This girl LOVES to "hop! hop!" so we thought a trampoline would be suiting for both she and Ian to enjoy on bad weather days (or anytime they get hyper we can say, "Go hop!"). I know, we are absolutely NUTS for buying this for the kids but you know how parents are...our hearts rule sometimes.

Ian got Anna a Precious Moments figurine honoring her 2nd birthday, a Precious Moments music figurine that plays You Are My Sunshine, and a horse to go with her new doll house.

Anna thoroughly enjoyed her mini chocolate cake with loads of strawberry frosting on top! She ate it face-first.

Our baby girl turns two on Thursday and we can't believe what a "big girl" she is now. She's getting new words each day and starting to talk in two and three word sentences. She knows several letters of the alphabet by sight and a few numbers. She can correctly do her wooden alphabet puzzle all by herself. She loves to help dress/undress and likes to choose her own shoes, as well as attempts to put them on. She can partially undress and is showing initial interest in the potty.

At her 2-year well child check-up she weighed 30 lbs. (which puts her in the 75-80th percentile) and the only way they could get an accurate weight was to have me get on the scale alone and then I held Anna in my arms and we got weighed together. She will not cooperate for weight/height checks at the doc - she never really has w/o a fuss. They could not get her height but Mark was able to get an estimate as she stretched out in her bed. She is 35-1/2" tall which puts her in the 90th percentile in height. So if the old tail of their adult height being based on doubling their height at age 2, then she would be roughly 5'9" as an adult. She already rivals Ian in overall size and is as tall as some three year olds she encounters at the park. She's a solid girl!

As we watch her change and grow, though, we know she'll always be our little baby doll.

Her words (that I can think of) at age 2:

Mama

Daddy

Ian (she says "Ee-uh")

Anna (she calls herself "Abba")

dog

cat

pat (as in 'pat the puppy')

Puppy

cup

milk

eat

water

Nana

Papa

Coal

Braden (cousin)

Bryson (cousin)

pray

body

head

eye

ear

mouth

teeth

toes (as well as "piggies" for her toes)
foot

pretty

bag

monkey (what she calls her monkey lovie blanket)

deep / wide (from the song she learned at church)

baby

boy

girl

happy (one of  her favorite words!)

sad

messy

hands

belly
body

no

yes

brother / bubba

night-night

Bible

Jesus

noodles

blue

yellow

green

orange

pink

purple

boat

plane

up

high

swing

slide

bike

toss

catch

bye-bye

all done / all gone

diaper

wash

potty

bath

show (as in "tv show")

Caillou (her favorite show right now)

choo-choo (train)

car

truck

mine

please

thank you

more

apple

raisins

cookie

yummy

pappy (what she calls her pacifier)

bed
home
read
play
doll house
rainbow (pronounces it "nee-mo")
macaroni and cheese (pronounces it "num-neuhm-num")
pizza