For her birthday, we had a modernized version of a Sofia the First birthday party, accompanied by some princess/royal themed snacks.
baby Callie and 2 years later
Family drove in from Miami to celebrate, and we had friends and family from close by come too! Callie had some of her friends come to play!
Callie is still very friendly at school, Miss Social Butterfly as she is referred to. Her teachers love her, and she is still using her manners 90% of the time! (The attitude machine is broken, so I don't know her true percentage!)
Callie is impressing us every day. She LOVES watching football with daddy, which she calls "ooftall". She points to her head and says "boo boo" when they collide (Mommy knows NOTHING about sports), and she will scream "hooray, go dolphins", and cheer with daddy. It is so cute to see her have a bond with Kahlil!
Callie has moved to the next room up at her school. The other day, when I picked her up, she said "Callie bags in cubby, come Mommy", as she ran and pushed through 2 connecting doors, and pointed to her new classroom saying "in Bumblebees (new room) right there!" Social skills run in the family, right? Her sentences are getting longer, and she is very expressive, and loves to scream and cry and have fits- terrible twos what?
Since the last blog, Callie has learned so many words, it would be impossible to continue to keep score.
The pediatrician said she is advanced. Good news to hear, because I talk to her A LOT, and work with her often! OK- bragging done.
FLASHBACK DATA:
Starting back last April, she started with 2- word sentences like "rice hot"...
May: started calling her pacificer "paci" instead of "packy". Said "enup" for clean up... recognized a few letters only. "ickle" is tickle. "Help me please". "hockey" for horsey.
June: plays kitchen, says "yea" to questions, opens ipad to her books and interacts with them. June 22- jumped up! Says "Ipad please" Loves splash parks now! Says "Ready... go", can build towers of blocks up. Learned "sneaky" eye. June 25= calls balloon a lalloon. 19 months can fully operate the ipad. Held a baby and fed baby, changed diaper...asks for window to be down in car. Started saying "a" in front of object words, grapes= meeps, counts to 3.
June: started saying her name as "Callie". Says Ketchup clearly. Cheerios are "rios", closes her eyes, and thinks we cannot see her, ate some purple crayon, 22nd- jumped for the first time, double feet...
July: doesn't like fireworks, says animals, went to Liam's birthday, counts objects like cows on a sign at Chick-fil-a aka "Moo Moo", says "I did it!", "baby agua" aka very small amount of water coming out of spout, says "okay".
August 1: allergist appointment, hated a lollipop, verdict- SEVERE egg allergy, on top of her still dairy allergy...August 2- started the 3 day potty training at 21 months, and TADA, it worked. Day 1 we threw the diapers away and said every few minutes "tell me when you have to go potty"... it was a disaster- peeing everywhere like a new puppy, day 2 she started signaling, still keeping us at bay with towels around the house ready to clean up leaks, day 3 she only had 2 accidents. By week 2 she was probably 90% trained. august 11- tried cereal and soy milk together for the first time. Enjoyed sorting silverwear while she calmed down from a tantrum, names her classmates, end of month, knows concept of heavy.
September: uses "excuse me", says tiny and big to compare objects (elephants in this case), says "Callie's turn" and "I wanna hold it", daddy spooked Callie in hide and seek and she said "Daddy scare me rawr!" Says "it's sunny, gasses peez", knows and says "push", said "feet and neck, no hand" while shaking her head telling me she understood where to apply her cold roll on of oils.
October-:says "you're silly daddy", asks for "huggies" (hugs), climbed on a chair and stood on her highchair (needed oils to calm down- mommy that is), says "ummmm" when thinking, had her first braid, says "good morning mommy/daddy", says "vamos ok", Had a great halloween dressed up as a Monsters Inc. Family
November: slathered aquafor all over her hair (fun, not), says and uses the contraction where's" "where's daddy? Where's paci?", locks doors, 9th- counts to 13 and also now says "I no like it", daddy date night with some school friends, wanted noodles for breakfast- took them in a container in the car for her (veggie spirals), fights about color of ponytails, if we can even get one in, jackets, shirts, which underwear, everything is "sofia's____" (the frog underwear is sofia's frog etc), says jacket, zip, amulet.
TWO YEAR STATS: 2 FEET 8.5 INCHES, 25 LBS (with clothes).
Christmas post will be started by February- ha! Mommy life is fast-paced, with not a lot of down time.
