Alayna at 2

WOW - our little girl is TWO!!! Crazy to think - it's gone so fast! What is Miss Alayna doing at 2? Well.....
- size 4 diapers
- still mostly 18-24 mo clothes and going into some of the bigger 24 mo
- loves to sing - when getting in the car she ALWAYS asks for "hippo" or "little people" - the favorite "car" music these days. "hippo" = I'm a little tea pot on a CD with a hippo on the front. She sings a long to most of the songs; when singing them later on her own she tends to pick a portion of the song and repeat it over and over but it's so FUN to listen to her
- is in tumbling class and loves it...it's a great date with Daddy
- overall a pretty happy girl that is full of spunk!
- has a big sassy side right now...oh to figure out how to "control" that :)
- is in the process of getting her bottom molars
- the other last 4 teeth that have been working their way in over the last few months are about in - so that meant it's time for the NUK to go BYE-BYE
- Just to reiterate - last week (Tuesday) Brian cut the tip of Alayna's nuk. Now there is a gapping hole in the top and it doesn't work like it should. She's not totally willing to give it up yet and occasionally I find she's had it in her mouth but often I find it in the corner of her bed or on the floor. Tonight I put her to bed and she asked for it but I told her it was broke and moved on to something else and she went to bed without it. It was rough the for a while. She was only used to having it at naps and bedtime, but the second night when she went to bed she cried for an hour before allowing herself to go to sleep. It's hard for her to calm down...when we rock-a-bye at night she just talks and talks and won't let herself quiet down before going to sleep
- we read books before bed, then "bye-o-bye for 2 minutes" while listening to lullaby music and then go to bed
- loves fruit, juice (which she rarely gets so she downs it when she does :) ), pancakes & mac n cheese
- still loves purses & bags
- Grant and Alayna love playing "puppy" together. Sometimes it's enough to kill your ear drums, but it's hard to tell them to stop when it's the one thing they will play together that keeps them occupied and not on top of eachother :)
- Likes to put make up on with me in the morning - we put on lotion, blush and then some lip gloss...no eye stuff though :)
- Likes getting her hair dried
- LOVES to pick out her own clothes. Socks seem to be a big favorite item to pick out daily. Her favorite piece of clothing overall seems to be her "sweater" - a little blue hooded sweater from Children's Place that she picks out to wear whenever it's clean. She looks in the closet and if it's not there she asks "where's 'my sweater'?"
- becoming very independant - do it "myself" is heard OFTEN
- she's so much fun and I can't wait to see what this next year will bring.

LOVE YOU LAYNA-BEAR!!!!