22 Month Update

So my baby girl is now 22 months old! I can't believe it! Only 2 more months and she will be a 2 year old! Crazy how time flies by so quickly. Well, it's been a while since I have posted on her milestones, so I wanted to make a post of all the things she is doing now because I know if I don't post it I will forget when it happened. :-)

22 months -

• You weigh 27.5 pounds


• You are about as tall as 3 bounty papertowels stacked on top of each other


• You have 13 teeth now and I think your 14th is coming in (front point teeth)


• You will dance to any music that is on by yourself but most recently you want mommy or daddy to dance with you and you cry when we want to stop because we are tired :-)


• You have recently learned (in the last month) to jump and it's so cute!


• You have gone pee pee on the potty 5 times in the last 3 days!


• You still use a paci at night


• You like to feed yourself


• You try to dress yourself


• You love to read books...the other day you read a book to your bunny!


• You love Dora and Boots, Sponge Bob and recently Barbie Princesses


• Your favorite movie right now is Bee Movie (I was afraid you were going to hang on to Shrek forever!)


• You love to run


• You love being outside...we have screaming fits when it's time to come back inside


• You can sing your ABC's, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and our Night Night song that was passed down from my mother


• You can count from 1-20


• You can point out butterflies, hearts, flowers, lights, cars, earrings, mouths, eyes, ears, hair, noses, head, shoulders, knees and toes (hehe), hands and fingers when you see them


• You know your Papaw, Nana, Papa, Granny, Poppa Louie, Nona Donna, Aunt Tammy, Uncle Kody, Katlyn, Austin, Aunt Kristen (Kissy), Uncle Brian, Aunt Lisa, Uncle Ryan, Uncle Spencer, and baby Kieran


• You absolutely LOVE mac-n-cheese!!!! I mean you could eat it 24/7 and you would be on cloud nine!


• You say you want apple sauce or an apple, but when I cut up the apple you won't eat it


• You have friends at daycare...Hannah, Sarah (Kristen Alexander's little girl) and "Big" Will.


• You love your teachers Miss Michelle (Shell), Miss Sharon, Miss Chelsey, etc.


• You went to the movie theater for the first time at 21 months old and did great!


• You love our neighbors Mark, Missy and Hayden and their dogs Harley and Murphy


• You want to help us feed the dogs as often as you can by opening the back door and saying "get back"


• Your new thing is to lay in our bed and pull the covers up to your neck...you look so cute too! It's hard to put you in your bed to sleep because of this!

Oh baby girl...you are even better than what your father and I had dreamed of you. We are so lucky to have you in our lives that I can't even put into words our love for you. When I was pregnant with you, I thought I knew what love was...but until you arrived, I could not fully feel that love 100%. Now that you are almost 2 years old and are just the most amazing little girl, we are just so blessed to have you in our lives! God has truly blessed us and I pray that one day you are able to feel the love we have for you when you have a child or children of your own. Just looking at you recently makes me want to cry because you are no longer my "baby" but your are my "big girl" now and I just look back and wonder where the last 22 months have gone! I remember sleeping with you for the first time at the hospital and just feeling so happy that you were here I didn't mind feeding you every 2 hours for 10 weeks straight! I look back now and think "that wasn't so bad"! Everything that that seemed so hard at times now seems so easy...it's all about keeping it in perspective. You are a true light from God and I'm so happy he gave that light to us!

Thanks for being the amazing daughter you are!

We love you!