Teagan turned two on December 5. Rog and I took the day off and we celebrated with a trip to Build a Bear and The Cupcakery. Teagan didn’t totally understand the Build a Bear concept, but she caught on to some parts and definitely enjoyed herself. She chose a bunny which she cleverly named “Rabbit”. She really enjoyed giving him a bath, but lost interest when it came time to create his birth certificate and instead occupied herself by running around the store and trying to get out into the mall.
She fell into a deep sleep in the car but happily obliged to wake up for a cupcake, which she devoured.
She also had two separate birthday celebrations with each side of the family, and another party at daycare. Lots of cake and ice cream were consumed by all. It’s no wonder that kids look forward to birthdays!
Teagan also had her 2 year well visit the week after her birthday. She’s slightly below average on height and weight but knocked it out of the ballpark with her head circumference. 99th percentile!! For anyone that had any doubt, she is most definitely Roger’s child!
She’s working hard to exercise her independence. I am now well aware of how the “terrible twos” phrase came about. It’s a good day when we can make it through the morning without a tantrum. This morning she was in such a great mood that she couldn’t even pretend cry very well. (Though she did try.)
She’s repeating words and phrases all the time. The other day I dropped her off at the daycare and her baby sitter said “Bye Aimee”, so Teagan repeated “Bye Eemee”. She has the tune to her abc’s down, though the letters come out at random, every number is “2” or “5” and every color is “pink” or “wewow”. Every morning when I walk into her room she asks “Where Daddy go?” and she always wants to know where “Dappy” (Chappy) is. She loves to “hep” (help) me cook, make sandwiches for lunch, get my socks and shoes on, and set up the humidifier. She lets us know by declaring “I do it!” or “I hep!” Every night before we rock and sing, we have to make sure that each of her two “gingkets” (blankets), her “wabbit”, her baby and her bear are accounted for and in the chair with us. It’s always a very graceful process getting her from the chair into her bed each night.
Despite the tantrums and meltdowns, she is of course so much fun. She knows how to perform and get a laugh, she knows what buttons to push when she just wants to fight, and she knows how to melt our hearts in an instant.
Clowning Around:
Throwing a Tantrum:
Melting Our Hearts:
1 comment:
Hi, I was intrigued by the 'wewow' commnent in your blog :-) I was alerted to it by Google Alerts, are you talking about the pink of our company branding on wewow.co.uk? Stuart :-)
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