I know, I've been delinquent. Oh well, you'll get over it! Here is a long overdue post and it's long. A lot has been going on so I'm going to try to keep it short.
The last I talked to you was sometime in May. So here are the last two months.
- Birthday Party for friend Braelyn - first pinata, cake, park, and ice cream (the first time Mari has actually eaten ice cream...she had a sensitivity about cold stuff)
- Pool time
- More ice cream
- Birthday Party for friend Daniel - more cake and pool time, sprinkler
- Birthday Party for cousin Madi - more cake
- Birthday Party for Granddad - more cake
- July 4th - visit from cousin Brendan, a jumpy house, more pool time, more cake!
- Birthday Party for friend Brooklyn - rollerskates! and more cake
(Do you see a theme to our summer?)
New things happening with Mari:
- Fully potty-trained (HIP HIP HOORAY!)
- Talking in full conversations, often quite funny ones
- Singing complete songs, over and over and over and over
- Totally IN LOVE with Barney (sigh!)
- Insists on being independent - puts herself to bed by turning on music and humidifier herself, climbing in and out of car and buckling herself in, etc.
- New favorite activites include watercolors, riding bikes, helping Mommy cook
- New not-so-nice things: "I no listen to Mommy." "I no poo-poo today, I not allowed." spitting, kicking, just plain 2-yr-old-ness
- New favorite foods - corn-on-the-cob, whole apples, ice cream and popsicles
- New accomplishments - counts to 20, counts to 5 in Spanish (working on Amharic), knows lots of shapes, knows her safety signs (stop, yield, no walk, etc.), knows the months of the year and days of the week
I have tons of funny sayings and conversations, lots more things she is doing and learning. Just no time these days to write. She is running me ragged. I'm going to try to post more often just so it doesn't take so long to play catchup. So maybe short little posts with some pix. Sound good?
3 comments:
Mari is one beautiful intelligent adorable little girl! When they turn 3 all of the annoying two year old'isms go away immediately, right?
She is so cute and smart!! Can't wait to read about some of those funny conversations!!!
Jill, I am truly amazed by what Mari is doing, saying, and singing! What a bright little girl she is! (and you must be an awesome teacher!)
I just LOVE all of Mari's hairstyles!!!
Hope you're having fun at camp. I just got back from a business trip, so it wouldn't have worked out for us. Maybe next year...
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