You are just shy of 22 months, Mommy has to stop and think for both of us when someone asks our age. I remember when I knew how many weeks and days old you were.
At the beginning of the month we took a road trip to Utah and Nevada for your great grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary party. I can't explain to you how important it was for me to be able to be there... other than to say that I would do the hellacious 11 hour drive again in a heartbeat if I had to. Why was it hellacious? It could have something to do with Miss Stubborn-no-sleeping-Chatterbox-Screaming-and-throwing-things-girl. I think I'm brilliant and decided that we should leave at 3:00 am so that the kids would sleep for a good leg of the trip. You decided that was just silly and proceeded to stay awake for nearly 24 hours straight. You were so delirious the next morning at my cousin's house that you honestly couldn't walk. But, you might miss something on this grand adventure so you continued to scream and talk in order to keep yourself awake. You even flailed a bit to wake yourself up and gave mommy a fat lip in the middle of the night.
And then there were the family pictures. I was so stressed out about these pictures that I couldn't breathe. I could just see everyone standing and smiling while a blonde streak ran out of the shot. We got you to stay.... however you are sitting on a toy car with candy on the steering wheel.
You are "spirited" to say the least. You have always been a little girl that knows exactly what she wants. You also know how to work the cute card to get it. And your cute card is a doozy!
You are saying so many words and mini-sentences. What you say mostly is OH WOW! or Oh Wow wow! What's that? You love "Klee" (Oakley) and throwing dirt from your sandbox on the dog. You are not afraid of bugs, water or daddy raising his voice.
There is so much more to tell you but you are yelling in your crib and mommy has house work to do. I will write more soon... or soonish.
Love, Mama
