Life with a 22 Month Old

Dear Gracie,

You are 22 months old. This month marks a bitter sweet month for us. I am so happy you are growing older, but it means the end of summer and the start of school. Boo, hoo.

Things are changing so fast for you and you are growing, growing. At your last Dr. appointment 1 week ago you weighed 24 pounds. I just had your foot measured for new shoes and your left foot was at a 5 and your right foot a 5 and 1/2!

It seems you have all the sudden opened your eyes because you see and talk about so many things now! (especially when we are in the car!) Your absolute favorite, favorite thing to see are cows. You go wild when we see a cow. We have a field right by our house that is home to about 20 or so cows and when they are out you just can’t stand it. When they are not out you say “Where da’ mo? Where da’ mo?” You’ll say it over and over and over until finally we tell you the cows went night-night. Sometimes you’ll say “Oh, there he is!” even when there isn’t a cow out. I have spoiled you too because in the car now you always ask for a snack “sack” and your juice. Most of the time you are neat but sometimes you’ll turn the baggie upside down and dump every last bit of food on the floor and say “mess, mess.”

You do so many funny things you will have your Daddy and I just laughing at you! We have been getting ready for our beach trip and I know you will have so much fun. I can’t wait for you to see the sand and water.

Your favorite question to ask is “What’s this?”. You ask this about everything.

Your eating has picked back up again since your virus you had. Fruits you love: strawberries, blueberries, grapes, apples, and bananas. You’ll eat occasional green beans but that’s it for the veggies. I make sure you get v8 fusion drink every day because it’s a serving of veggies and you love it! I can always count on you to eat a hot dog and or pizza. You like cheese most of the time and will occasionally eat bacon and a waffle or a pancake. You like to sorta “graze” with food. You like to eat some, get down walk around, eat some more….

Your opinions have really come out lately. You’ll say a definite ‘yes’ or ‘no’ but mostly just say “yeah”. You just started saying the word “please”. You have only been signing the word before now. It sounds like ‘peas’ and is so cute to hear!

You can be quite the talker and go on and on with random words just like we’re supposed to know what you are saying. You can also still be quiet and shy.

With all that you do, I know I’m forgetting some of your funnies. One thing you did recently could have been very bad. You were playing with your make up bag that I made for you and you pulled out the mascara bottle and undid it and actually put mascara up to your eye. You came over to me and said “Hieeee.” and I freaked out. So, bye-bye mascara! Also we were in the car going to a friends house for lunch and you kept saying “bug, bug” over and over. I couldn’t see a bug so I thought you were just saying it until I was coming to get you out of the car and there was a bug attached to your window! You have a new found love for airplanes. You find them in the sky and point up and say ‘oppie’ for airplane.

You are growing so fast and I can’t believe in just 8 short weeks you are going to be the big t-w-o!

You are NOT easy to get pictures of anymore. You will stop (for maybe a split second), say “cheese” and then your off. I’m usually just getting my camera turned on by then.

We love you so much!!

Love,

Momma