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21 months.

 

WHERE oh WHERE does the time go?  I can’t even wrap my head around the fact that I’ve got to be thinking about planning a SECOND birthday party for my girl soon.  Major sads.  My girl has been FULL of herself lately and growing up right before my very eyes.  She is talking up a storm now a days… (I knew it would come…and it is so cute).  My newest favorite that she says is “love you” but of course it sounds like lu you…melt my heart.  Collins gives the BEST kisses these days and is still a mama’s girl through and through.  She’s been more obsessed with Mikey lately and always asks for him in the mornings…but when it comes down to it, she wants her mama.  I mean, who can blame her?  ;-)  (Kidding, husband.)  She’s pretty much your typical “almost two year old.”  HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY one second and crying the next.  Thankfully the tears never last long and we can generally figure out a way to redirect her attention if she’s upset about something.  She does hit sometimes and it drives me batty.  So I put her in timeout and she laughs.  And I SWEAR I am SO stern with her when I do this…and she still laughs.  Not sure how to handle that one. 

 

Collins still LOVES to be outside and LOVES to dance.  The minute she hears a song that’s catchy/fast she starts wiggling her hips and moving her body side to side.  It is the cutest thing I have ever witnessed (sorry for the biased mama moment).  Collins is pretty independent and can be stubborn, is it because she is almost 2 or because that’s how she really is? Only time will tell….  She knows what she wants and doesn’t though that’s for sure. 

 

No clue about her weight and height right now and we don’t go back to the doctor until she turns TWO, what THE what?!?  She mostly wears 18 mo clothes…I’m slowly starting to buy 24 mo to last her thru February/March.  I do know she is a chunk.  And short.  So there’s that.  And she has TINY feet…like we just moved onto size 4 (for reference some of her friends are already in 6 and 7).  She still doesn’t have all of her teeth…but she does have lots of hair!  It is growing so fast!  I kinda need to start thinking about how to “do” her hair…something besides just clipping a bow in it.  It looks scraggly in the back sometimes…she will have a curled piece, then straight, a curl, then straight…so who knows how we will handle that!  

 

She still naps TWICE a day, crazy, right?  But, it works.  On weekends, most of the time she only gets one…but a lot of times she still likes that morning nap…even if it’s only 45 minutes.  She sleeps from about 8 or 8:30 to 7:30 or 8 in the mornings.  And her eating? Picky as ever.  One night she will eat something and two nights later, not touch it.  Sigh. Such the life of a toddlerJ

We feel so incredibly blessed to have little C bug in our life, I cannot imagine our life without her.  Collins, you make mama and daddy’s day, EVERY day.  We love you to the moon and back.

 

Xoxo