My baby girl,
I apologize in advance for not writing as much as I should be about your accomplishments, new skills, new words, and your life. It just so happened that I was cleaning my work email and stumbled on the email I’ve sent to your dad where I copied him on your 2 year blog post. I’ve read it again for 89th time probably. It made me cry. It made remember what you did and said almost six months ago (does time fly or what?). It sent me back in time and let me re-live those moments. And here I am again, sitting at my desk and thinking why I don’t do this more often.
Your vocabulary is constantly increasing. You talk in sentences now. You are a little copy cat and repeat everything we say. My favorite is when you wake up on the weekend and start telling me stories from previous week, day, or just some random things from a while back. Seriously, it is the cutest thing when you open your eyes, make sure your mama is home, and then off you go with your stories. The latest ones have been about Mickey and his paw hurting him and about your baby cousin Alyssa who didn’t feel good in a car.
You love cartoons. Miss A is totally over the Toys Story cartoon and her favorite character, Buzz. Now, all you want to watch is Luntik, the Russian cartoon. At least it is a bit educational and has a moral at the end of each short episode.
You are mastering your puppy eyes skills, especially when you are asking for one more cartoon and/or candy. You’ll make a sweet face and ask for one more cartoon in the evening and I’ll say it is the last one and ask you what will happen after and you reply “the last one and then sleep”. You don’t always follow what you say though. We are working on it though.
You finally started to notice your baby cousin Alyssa. She is 14 months younger then you are. You’ve paid absolutely no attention to her in the past, except when she touched your toys and you didn’t want to share. Now you are giving her toys, watching over her, trying to play together, help her get up when she falls, share candy and other yummy food with her. It makes me think that you are almost ready for a baby brother or sister. Although when I ask you if you want to be a big sister you reply without even thinking “NO”.
You also want to play with your older cousin but that little scorpio has a mind of its own.
You like going to daycare, which makes me sooo happy. I love to know that you are taken care of and have friends to play with. It does make me sad at times that I am stuck at work and can’t spend more time with you.
I’ve purchased an I Like You book in pink and I think it is time to take it out and start using it. I want to record the funny phrases and episodes of your everyday life. I am sure I’ll always come up with stuff to write in your book.
You still enjoy your gymnastics class. Your favorite is the trampoline jumping and sit drops.
You love going to a Japanese restaurant. Your favorite dish is the teriyaki salmon with rice and avocado. You also steal some “susi” (aka sushi) from us but first you take out the seaweed since it is “kaka” to you.
You sing the ABS song and Clean Up song when you help to clean the toys. Your teachers at daycare always mention that you are the best helper. You are learning to count. It is quite funny because you skip some number and also mix Russian and English numbers. It goes like this “odin, dva, three, four, five, vosem’, devyat, dvenadjat’”. I also started to teach you letters at home.
The first thing you say when you enter daycare is “ya v trusikax” (I am wearing panties). You want everyone around you to know that you are a big girl in your big girl underwear.
We are going on a family vacation in a few weeks. I’ve been telling you about the pool, waterslides, playground, and choo choo train. You’ve requested a pink swimsuit, white sunglasses, white hat, and red nail polish. Seriously, how did you come up with such a glamorous outfit all by yourself?
You like when we have guests over. You want to show off your toys, gymnastics skills, and how you can put your princess puzzle together all by yourself.
Lately, after we come home from daycare, you want to change your clothes and pick out a skirt, tights, and pretty black shoes. Again, seriously, how do you come up with those outfits? Your Mama hardly ever wears skirts, but you seem to love them!
Every month with you is joy. Every day with you is full smiles, laughter, tears, snuggles, and hugs. I am not a big fan of you becoming more and more independent though. I want you to be your mama’s girl forever!
With all my love,
Mom
