Folding Clothes — Landis
I was folding Landis’ clothes this morning and thinking about what a year she has been having. Just looking at her clothes made me realize how much she has changed and how much change has been put upon her. So I decided to document it here before I forget.
So Landis here goes:
About halfway between ages 2 and 3 you decided you would only wear dresses or skirts. A lot of the time you want to wear a dress and a skirt. You are VERY picky about what you will wear and NOTHING can have a tag on it. If there is a tag anywhere you demand to have it removed. You don’t like to wear shirts to bed, you just wear pants, shorts or panties.
You love to have things put in your hair but you take them out about 5 minutes later.
Your vocabulary has increased tremendously. You are very articulate about what you want and you mimic all of us. Sometimes you echo Lela and that drives her nuts:)
You potty trained in about 5 days. You were pretty surly about it and did not want to wear panties and did not want to go back in diapers. You threw your diapers away and we never gave them back. You potty trained for the day and night at the same time.
You learned how to ride a bicycle with training wheels and skipped right over the tricycle.
You slept in your own bed for the first time right before Phoebe was born in February. You go to bed in your own bed every night but you end up in our bed at some time during the evening. You gave up napping and you only nap when you can’t keep your eyes open and that is usually when you are in the car.
You are very good at independent play and don’t mind playing by yourself. You also like to role play with your sisters. You are very loving to your baby sister Phoebe and can be found lying in her crib with her (something I try to keep you from doing for safety reasons).
You adore baby dolls and playing in your kitchen. You make tons of food for everyone including pizza, ice creams and soy chai or coffee drinks.
You are such a joy and delight and just looking at the tremendous changes you have been going through amazes me, no wonder you are cranky some times:)
EDIT: I had to edit this to include that you never met a green vegetable that you actually LIKED! I do get spinach and kale in to your smoothies and you will now eat broccoli in your eggs and pasta but that has taken monumental effort. You love to eat fruit, rice/beans and cheese (although I don’t give it to you often) and you love mints (any and all of them).