August 13, 2012
Dear Christian,
Happy
Twenty-Three month birthday!
Twenty-one month
statistics: Weight: 32.4 lbs Length: TBD inches. Diaper Size:6 Clothes: 24
months – 2T.
The word of the month is SHOES! Boy do you love your shoes.
They are the first thing you ask for when you wake up each morning and you
can’t stand to be without them. When we
went to the beach on vacation you wore your shoes in the sand and the water and
never took them off. You get upset when we try to take them off you, or if we
don’t put them on fast enough in the morning.
Speaking of the beach, we had a fabulous time at Bethany
Beach last week. What a wonderful week! We had beautiful weather, lovely surf
and stayed in a fabulous home. The house we rented was on the other side of
Route 1 – away from the beach side. I suppose that’s why we could afford it. It
backed up to a canal and included two kayaks. We had so much fun on the kayaks
that we ended up renting a two seat kayak. The two seat kayak even included a
little baby seat for you. Unfortunately, you didn’t love the kayak. I think the
salt water dripped in your eyes. You did love playing in the sand on the days
we went to the beach. We brough a little mini-pool and filled that with water
from the ocean. You loved to splash and play!
Your vocabulary has continued to explode! I love hearing the
new words you have learned. You have started calling yourself Mo Mo, which is
our nickname for you. For the past few months you have called both nana and
grandma, nana. Yesterday for the first time I heard you say something that
sounded like Grandma. Other words: BeeBot (for robot, R2D2),
You continue to be a super picky eater. In fact, the past
few nights, you’ve refused dinner altogether. When you refuse dinner, we don’t
make you an alternate meal or give you just bread or something sweet like
applesauce. We figure you’d eat if you were really hungry, and you don’t seem
to be starving yourself. Like so many things, I hope we are doing the right
thing. You have been enjoying sharing my morning green smoothie with me. It
includes spinach, kale, grapes, apples and a banana.
We missed our August camping trip due to bad weather, but we
made a trip to the Leesburg Aquatic Center instead. You were awesome on the
baby water slide. You have no fear!! It was awesome to see you race down the
slide and then run around to get in line to go again. I love it! I can’t wait
until we can ride coasters together!!
Thanks for a great month little one.
Much love,
Mama
