Kieran-you are 2 1/2 You are wearing 2T clothes, size 5 diapers. You've sat on the potty a handful of times, but don't understand what it is used for quite yet. You weight approximately 26 lbs. and I'm not sure how tall you are, but you've grown. Ha! You don't sit still long enough for me to measure you:) Your hair appears just a tiny bit darker with each passing month. You are still attached to your paci and if it wasn't for your move we would have weaned you off. It's such a comfort object Mom and Dad don't know what to do. You are mostly easy going, but you definitely have your "age 2" moments.
You sleep from approximately 8 pm-7am in the morning. Recently you started struggling at bedtime just a bit. One night you told us you were scared and pointed to your shadow. We leave your bedroom door open about halfway until you fall asleep and then you go to bed. Occasionally you will come and out and we just tell you to go back to bed and most of the time you do. You still nap very well and will sleep on average 2 hours. You really need your naps! With how active you are and they say not hearing the best wears kids out because your little brain is working harder to make sense of what you are hearing. You are just getting two of your two year old molars and will bite your hands and cry. OUch! You hate brushing your teeth. Svea got an electric tooth brush and you seemed interested in it so we got you one too. You like to chew on it and have it on, but you don't totally love it. You like to play with your cars and "guys" such as Jake and Izzy from the pirate show you and your sister love. It's fun to watch you start to make them talk to each other, do actions, etc. You also are in love with all things dinosaurs! You also just love whatever your sister loves and look up to her and want to do what she is doing.
You hate to eat. The other night we went to the neighbors and you and your sister did not eat one bite. I partially blame myself as I'm not a good cook (don't cook often/I'm trying) and so after refusing to eat we cave and give you peanut butter and honey sandwiches and bananas. If it weren't for those things you'd be skin and bones:) You love taking your vitamin though! You are talking in mostly complete sentences although strangers and sometimes we can't make out what you are saying. Since getting your aides turned up a bit last month we are understanding you much better and about 90% of what you are saying. You speak 2-7 word sentences! You pick up on everything and are learning new things everyday. Your biggest struggle is sharing, but you are great with your thank yous! You are very polite, even when you are upset about something. "NO ThaNK YOU" you will yell. You sometimes hit your sister for no reason just to see what'll happen and if you get REALLY frustrated and upset with her you still sometimes bite her. Half the time you will do something not nice to her and then immediately go to her all by yourself and apologize/give her a hug. Overall you are so sweet and kind and still love to give everyone hugs before saying goodbye.
You have started to sing more. We catch you singing Jesus Loves Me, ABC, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, The Wheels on the Bus, The Muffin Man, and a few others. Some of your favorite phrases are "hold my hand" when you want to show us something. "I want a peanut butter sandwich" and you'll hang onto the fridge to get the bread out. Your personality is changing a bit. You don't take long to warm-up still, but it was weird for us to leave you both with a sitter the other night. You completely flipped roles with your sister and she comforted you when mom and dad left when you cried and sat at the door. Break my heart:)
You still love to pour through books and look at the pictures or read out loud and be read to. We had your 2nd cousins over tonight and you were all running around playing. A book caught your eye and there you stopped to go through your book. You were so focused and the playing kept going on around you. You love your books!You love to do puzzles, draw on the chalkboard, line up and play with your cars, carry dinosaurs and other figurines around, play with your tractors/farm, or just play whatever your sister is doing. You are still very active and love to run, climb, and wrestle. You got to bed with your pacis and a water. You don't care about your blankets, stuffed animals, or little puppy blanket. In fact I'm not sure why we even keep it in your bed. It's never been your go to anyway. You have no interest in what you wear, although just tonight for the first time you wouldn't take your shirt off because it had "Batman" on it. We had to bribe you with spiderman jammies. Your Dad couldn't be more proud:) Here you are wearing your sisters underwear!
You are a huge snuggler and we love it! You like to snuggle in the morning, before bed, in the middle of the day when you just feel like it. Sometimes you'll take our hands and show us how you want us to rub your back or you'll push mommy's head back on the chair a certain way so your head fits on my shoulder just right. At night before bed we rock you and it's like heaven! We love you so much Kieran! You just light up our days and are so much fun. We are so blessed...we love you!
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