Monthly Archives - Annie Month 32

dear annie,

32 months. i'm baffled. i got a little sad about it the other day when i was watching a video from your first christmas. i can't believe how the time has flown by. i know it's old and i say it all the time, but i just can't believe it. life is so short. you have grown so much and no matter how much i know i am soaking up every little thing you do, i still feel as though it's all going too fast. you're very quickly becoming a little girl and less a baby. you are this close to being done with pullups. you are mastering the english (and spanish) language - you speak in complete sentences now. you listen to me and daddy...sometimes. you are almost able to understand and reason. your chubby baby thighs are turning less so. i could go on.

you are still and probably always will be a light weight. at (about) 30 pounds you are a mere 3 pounds heavier than your cousin henry - 2 years your junior. you are fast though. you love to run. sometime when you're older remind me to show you that episode of "Friends" where rachel and phoebe go running in central park...because that's what you look like sometimes. phoebe - not rachel. i love it though. actually, your form has improved just over the past couple of weeks - you are getting a lot of practice running when we go on our nightly walks. your dad is also teaching you ninja fighting skills and you practice on eachother all the time. when you do one of your punches you even do the sound effects. "Chht" is kind of how it sounds. it's unbelievably funny.we've been on a good stretch this past couple of weeks where you've not really had many tantrums to speak of. thank you for that. it's so nice when you're happy. everybody is happier when annie is happy. that isn't to say you don't say "no" and "i don't WANT to" all of the time. you still say that - a lot - but that i can deal with. it's the days when you spend the better part of 7 hours being a crazy lunatic that i don't like. like i said, though, you have really been a fun person to be around lately. you make me laugh all the time. almost everything that comes out of your mouth (other than "NO" or "I DONT WANT TO") is funny. you are a really good big sister to jasper. you are constantly playing with him and helping soothe him when he is sad. sometimes i catch you being so sweet to him it just melts my heart. always always always you give him the most gentle kisses on his forehead...just because.

as you get closer to the big 3, i find myself - as i mentioned earlier - very sentimental. you are such a wonderful little human being and i couldn't be prouder to be your mommy. i love you to pieces, baby girl.

love, mommy