2 Years Old!

Logan is TWO years old today! Here are some of the things she's up to:

- She wears a size 2T in her clothes and she wears a size 5 shoe.

- She can count to 10 with some prompting and knows the numbers in the right order.

- She can sing songs like Jesus Loves Me, My God is So Big and today she learned "Happy Birthday to Lo Lo." Sorry if your birthday comes and she sings happy birthday to herself...she's learning ;).

- She remembers story books she reads and can retell stories by looking through the pictures.

- She recognizes her name and when it's spelled out will tell you, "That says Lo Lo!"

- She's got quite a vocabulary and knows more words than I can count. She's speaking in sentences now and you can have quite the conversation with her if you work hard enough at it. Her favorite word? No. It's quickly becoming my least favorite word.

- She's very sensitive and when Mike or I are visibly upset she'll give big hugs and say, "I so shorry mommy (or daddy)." She's also taken to saying that right after she comes out of her room from time out so it's hard to stay upset for too long with her.

- She likes to dress herself. She (thankfully) still lets me pick her clothing but she puts most of it on herself. And most of the time she does it correctly. She does not like to be helped in any capacity so we have to start getting ready to go out a good hour ahead of time because we know it'll take a while to get all of her stuff on.

- She LOVES to swim in the bathtub and will call out for the world to hear that she's "FIMMING."

- She's a sweet little mommy to her baby dolls. She loves to change diapers, put them to bed, change their clothes and tote around a "dia bag (diaper bag)" for them. She'll be a big help when the baby comes, I'm sure.

- She's very good at following instructions. She'll get the things we ask her to get and can follow a series of instructions, too. We can tell her to do numerous things at once and she'll go get them all done.

- She loves to clean! She makes her bed every morning, helps straighten her room at night and does a very good job of helping me with odd jobs around the house.

- She is COMPLETELY potty trained! She wears big girl panties all day long, even through her nap, and only wears a diaper at night because we've had a couple of accidents happen. She's making it longer and longer, though, so maybe by the time the boy makes his appearance we will truly only have one in diapers.

- She uses a spoon and a fork and does it correctly. She's gotten to the point where she doesn't make too much of a mess when she eats, and when she does, she cleans it up herself.

- She still uses sippy cups mainly for my sanity because she does pretty well with regular cups.

- She's very into pretend play and will make all kinds of foods in her "chichen" to feed people. Then she'll walk around the house and ask every doll, stuffed animal and living being if they "wan shum?"

- Knows the colors pink, green, yellow, red and blue. Can identify pink every time, the other ones you have to prompt her.

- Knows that a green light means go and a red one means "top, top!" We had to teach her this when she'd scream "GO GO GO GO GO" like crazy any time we pulled up to a red light.

It doesn't seem like 2 years ago we were in the hospital getting ready for the crazy ride that parenthood has brought, but we also can't imagine a life without our sweet girl. We have been so blessed with such a wonderful child and are so excited to see what the next year brings!