Nov 22
It's amazing how smart you have gotten since the last post that I did. You've had some huge milestones including being fully potty trained. It felt like I took a while to get there but once you did you were full on and don't even have any accidents during the night. You are still my strong willed, determined, funny and sweet little girl and we enjoy and love you so much!
Here's a few things about you up until 2.5 years old....
- You are so funny and you love to make people laugh
- You have the cutest laugh and giggle - you laugh from the heart and you can tell how genuine it is. You also have such a beautiful smile that lights up the room.
- That determined thing comes into play especially in the mornings and at night. You want to be the one to pick out your own clothes. In the morning when we try to take your pj's off you will scream and cry. Every morning and say "Dress, Dress". Most mornings we end up putting your pj's on over your clothes or you won't stop crying (this is your determination showing). You would wear your Sophia pj's every day if we would let you.
- When you get something in her head you want (like a toy) nothing else will do. Even if you go to bed without something, you will wake up in the morning and ask for it right away.
- You are obsessed with Anna (from Frozen) - you love her and everything about her. You like to be called Anna and play with Anna dolls. She is definitely your favorite.
- With that you love wearing dresses and that's all you want to wear.
- You sing all the time. Your favorite songs are Frozen "Let It Go" and "Shimmer and Shine". You also like to sing "daddy finger, daddy finger. where are you? Here I am, hear I am, how do you do?". She tries to sing all the words to her songs.
- You are a daddy's girl - so much more than Leah even was.
- You like to walk in the lake now but only if we have your shoes on.
- You love the lake and you are so good at playing with toys by yourself now - you will play for hours and hours
- You can go from happy to sad and back to happy in a 3 second timeframe
- You love to repeat everything. You talk all time time now. Some of your favorite sayings:
- "Daddy mad at me" - you said this a LOT
- "Dad, guess what?"
- "I don't know?"
- "Why?, Why?" - we hear this all the time
- "Play with me, Play with me"
- "Again, again, again"
- "Where daddy? I miss him"
- "I miss daddy"
- "I gonna win"
- "Hi mommy, what ya doing?"
- "MY Leah"
- "Blah, blah, blah"
- "Mommy - don't do my hair"
- "Mommy - Look at me"
- "Be quiet. I go to sleep"
- "Get Away from me"
- "Leave me alone"
- "Play nice!"
- "Me too! Me too!"
- "I want some more of that."
- "Mom... no shhhhh me. Mom - be nice"
- "It's my FAVORITE"
- "I don't like this"
- "NOT funny guys" - usually a very serious face with this one
- "Where my daddy go?" mommy says: he had to go to work. "Oh, i miss him, I miss him so much"
- "I scared" usually during movies
- "You play with me??" - we hear this a lot
- "It's gonna be awesome!"
- "Not fair"
- "I not a baby, I a big girl"
- "I daddy's best friend"
- "Ok.... I will"
- "I have to go potty really, really bad"
- You say your name a lots more now... "Karlee loves..." or "Karlee says..."
- Favorite movie: The Little Mermaid and Frozen
- Favorite tv: Sophia the First
- Favorite toys: Magic clip princesses, little barbies and any little princesses
- You love holding your little toys in your hand and will often hold one little doll in each hand and won't let go (for a whole day). You like to have 2 of your Anna princesses and call them Anna and my other Anna.
- Plays with pretend now with princesses and they talk to each other "Hi, what's your name?"
- Has lots of friends at school but talks about her friend Owen all the time. You like to claim "Owen bite me" lots (even though we know he doesn't)
- Loves playing with her friends at the lake - Hailey and Evie. They are silly and do 'chicken faces' and 'silly faces'
- Can count to 13 on your own
- We've seen glimpses of the "terrible 2's" with you including tantrums over nothing, but lucky for us they don't last long and you usually are smiling shortly after
- While mom or dad are driving you will yell "Mommy GO" or "Daddy GO" at all of the stops signs or red lights
- Loves to talk about "my Chasie" - still addicted to all things Aunt Chas
- When mommy or daddy sings - you yell "Stop It" and get very mad
- When leah was crying one day you walked over to her and said "why you crying Leah? It's okay Leah" while patting her to comfort her. So sweet.
- You copy Leah all the time - sometimes Leah gets a little frustrated with this :-)
- You like to yell
- Loves being read to or "reading" books on your own, will sit and flip through the pages
- You are in a bad habit of getting up in the middle of the night and yelling for mommy and as soon as mommy walks in the room you are fine and go back to bed.
- Saying mommy and daddy will take something away is finally starting to work on you and you are starting to comprehend that
- Every night wants "Mommy cover me up or mommy cover me up faster" and wants mom to come put her blanket on her. You still sleep with tons of blankets and toys in bed. You like me to cover you up with each of the blankets.
- Potty Training Milestones:
- August 6 - 1st day of not being wet for the WHOLE day
- September 10 - a potty training weekend. She did good. Still trouble pooping in the potty
- September 15 - calling Karlee as potty trained, underwear all the time and no accidents
- October 10 - no accidents for over a week
- October 16 - officially sleeping in underwear after 5 nights with no accidents at night - NO MORE DIAPERS!!
- Likes to sticker her tongue out at people and then goes blah, blah
- Has a special bond with Parker. They are best buds. She loves it when he rubs her back at bed time.
- Answers questions with "cuz" a lot
- Comes home many nights and changes into her princess dresses, her crown and heels - especially her Anna dress - she wears that one a lot. Definitely not my tom boy and she can walk well in heels too.
- Tells mommy to stay at home, stay at home
- Says I love you a lot.. and when you say I love you back, you say angrily and louder "I love YOU!!"... she will repeat this until you say 'thank you'
- Loves to do things "by myself" - "I wanna do it myself"
- Tell her "you look beautiful today Karlee" - she says "Yeah"
- Started doing chores: takes dishes to sink, cleans up her part of the table
- Only drinks out of big girl cups now
- You like wearing band aids for no reason
- Had a hitting problem at school for 3 days but hasn't happened since then
- Got a few random nose bleeds - not sure why
- You love baths and you play so nice with Leah in the bath
- You hate it when your hands are dirty
- You love suckers
- Drinks your drinks really fast, usually have your whole drink gone before supper even starts
- Knows months from song and the days of the week
- When picking up toys - sing a clean up song "clean up, clean up, everybody clean up"
