Okay, so our sweet Chloe is two and a half!! In September she turned the big 2 and so far the two's have been a hoot! I am so thankful she is in our family as she keeps me laughing and smiling and she definitely keeps me on my toes!
In September, we celebrated two years with cupcakes at Splash Park.
At 24 months, Chloe weighed in at 23.8 lbs, moving her up on the charts from the 3rd to the 10th percentile, finally! And she was 34.5 inches tall, moving her from the 25th to the 75th percentile!
She said 2-3 word phrases at 24 months... her favorite question was "what's zat?" Those phrases have now turned into 5-6 word sentences and beyond. She is very verbal and loves to ask questions, point out everything around her and sing songs. She also counts to 10 and is learning her "baby C's," better known as the "A B C song."
Speaking of songs, Chloe LOVES Miss Pattycake! Several times throughout each day, she says, "Mommy, all day, all day!" which comes from the lyrics, "All day, all day, all day long I will give You praise." This makes me smile, because it's like she really is praising God all throughout the day.
Some of my favorite things she says...
"big gull panties"
"hey bodies!" which is "hey everybody"
"um on" for come on, as she motions to you with a backwards wave.
Anytime we call her "baby," she responds..."I not a baby, I Choe. I a big gull."
Instead of washcloth, she switches the w and c, so it's "cashwoth."
She used to call Esther, "Sissy" but has just recently changed to calling her "Esser." Both are sweet, but for some reason, "Sissy" was endearing.
Apparently I have called her "silly goose" one too many times, because now she calls me that, which is really hard to keep a straight face with when she's so serious. When asking her if she needed to go potty, her reply was, "I no go potty, siwy goose."
And I'm happy to say that Chloe is potty trained!! She wears big girl panties 24/7! Even before she turned two, she was sitting on the potty and then it turned into her taking her diaper off and sitting and actually going potty all by herself. Yes, the poor child basically potty trained herself. I knew whenever I started with her I'd have to be consistent, and honestly, starting homeschooling, plus taking Esther back and forth to school everyday, I just kept putting the "training" off until finally Christmas break came and I knew I had to be intentional about things. She has done awesome! It's so nice to be out of diapers and we did pull ups for a while at night, but then realized they were breaking her out, so we just went straight to big girl panties for naps and even at night and she's done fabulously! Her reward for going tee-tee was to get a Smartie, just one. When she went poo poo in the potty, we were so happy, she got a whole pack of Smarties and that's all it took. She loved getting her "mawties" and was not afraid to ask for a "pack mawties." Thankfully we're now beyond the "you get a treat every time you go" and she's satisfied with a "woohoo" or "good job!"
Here she is back in the fall before the official training began...
And here she is wearing 7 pairs of big girl panties, yes 7. When needing a clean pair of panties, she'll occasionally come out wearing as many as she has on her shelf.
Chloe's afternoon nap... although she can sometimes easily go without it, I'm hoping to keep it around for quite some time. I had to get a shot of her with all her buddies... she loves all her stuffed animals and babies... I think we counted 12 in her crib one time. (the Pink Panther was Woody's!)
She got her first haircut back in December. She went in with Arden and I to get ours cut and she happily climbed in the chair and wanted hers cut too. It needed some shaping up and thankfully Danielle, our sweet friend that cuts our entire family's hair, let me use her iphone to get pictures. Chloe was so proud! And it just made her curls even more springy-I could just eat them up! :)
This is Chloe talking on the phone with Papa... she LOVES talking on the phone (and she LOVES her Papa!). She was having a real conversation in the picture, but it's not unusual to hear her having a pretend conversation with Papa and G.G. or Nonie and Dagan or Gabe, Ezra and Titus, her best buds, on a pretend phone, usually her hand.
Chloe also loves climbing, dancing and doing whatever her big sisters are doing! She has so much personality and makes the funniest expressions, especially with her eyes...add to that things that she says and it really is hard to keep a straight face with her!
She's such a fun two-year-old and we love her tons!
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