Lexie::22 months

Well here we are 2 months until 2 years old. I am starting to see what I hope to be the beginnings of our great relationship. This month I have officially started letting you help in the kitchen, a tradition of all the great cooks in our family. You can mash the bananas for banana bread, snap green beans for dinner and help crack eggs for breakfast. Hopefully you will have a passion for cooking just like me and I am happy to have you help as much or as little as you want too. Speaking of our relationship, we have officially moved to having nightly family dinners in the big room. We make a point of all three of us to talk about our days and you are joining in the conversation telling us about yours. One of my favorite memories from this month would be the night we went out to eat. We sat together and talked, ate dinner and had quite an enjoyable time.

As you are becoming a big girl, we have officially moved into our Disney Fairies phase. I am glad that the Tinkerbell movie is tolerable, because we have already watched it about 10 times. As far as playing goes, you are learning more and more..you can sing songs and dance to them until you make yourself dizzy, all on purpose. You learned how to jump, which is a pretty big deal for this age. Everyday you are learning more and more letters to add to your ability of counting to 10. And lately you have preferred taking a shower instead of a bath, you know like big girls do. You are also starting to dress yourself, you have pants down, but shirts are taking a little more practice which is not that big of a deal.

But don't let me kid you, there are trying moments too. You have had your first timeouts...short that they are but they seem to be effective (because we don't stand on tables or play in the cat water.) You are becoming a great whiner, usually coupled with "I want X" which means I DON'T want X. It is fun chasing you around the house to get you to either sit on the potty or change your diaper.

All in all you are doing great and the discovery you are taking me and daddy on is a fun adventure.

Love, Mommy