I cannot believe my baby girl is 2 years old today, I can't believe I'm the mother of a 2 year old! I feel so incredibly blessed to be her mother and cannot get enough of my little spit-fire!
For Mckell's birthday we took her to chuckie cheese and she was in heaven. She ran around to each game and ride and said 'let's do this one, I want to try this one now!' Even though the food was less than good, we had a great time and of course we'd do anything to make our baby happy!
Surprisingly she loved the chuckie cheese mouse character- she kept following him around and giving him hugs. I thought for sure he'd scare her, but they became fast friends.
After many attempts- the best picture we got. Love our sweet little family.
Mckell's 2 year check up stats:
Height: 34 inches, 60%
Weight: 22.5 lbs, 8%
Head Circ: 47 cm, 40%
So basically we have a tall skinny peanut. Her pediatrician said she's stayed pretty consistent in her growth and he predicted she'll be about 5'8"!!! I don't know where they get those predictions but we're not holding our breath! ha
Mckell is becoming more and more sassy and demanding as her fun personalitly is coming out- all I know is we have trouble on our hands, guess it's pay back from Courtland and I! ha. At the same time, she has such a tender heart and I can tell she's going to be a sensitive girl. The other day she was eating a sucker and for some reason thought her sucker was sad so she started patting her sucker and said, "you sad sucker, I'm sorry, It's ok I make you feel better." Then she rocked her sucker and said, "what's the matter sucker? Be happy please!" Pretty funny- where do kids come up with this stuff? ha
Some more tidbits from Mckell:
~talking to Colter in the car: "It's ok bud, almost there, one more minute"
~says 'more' after everything: "that NOT fair no more" "no I not tuff more" "no singing more mom"
~while driving to the store she yells from her carseat: "I not go to store more, I want chicken nuggets, french fries, and mamma's drink! NOT store more!"
talking to Colter: "Oh I love you, you so smart" while cupping his face in her hands and another conversation with him "It's not scary bud, this stick not scare you more, it's nice stick!"
~playing with her pretend cell phone: "Oh my goodness my phone's ringing, hurry you go get it"
And my favorite- Kell went running for Colter when she heard him wake up from his nap, gave him a big hug and said, "You're my best friend! I love you!" then kissed him on the lips and said, "You sleep good Colter, have good dreams? Now we play!" (talk about pull at your heart strings- too darn cute)
Mckell is such a little smartie pants and seems to talk more than the average 2 year old. She knows her abc's and can recognize many of the letters. She knows many shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, star, heart, octagon, etc) and colors (pink, blue, green, orange, yellow, purple, white). She can count to 20 and recognizes numbers 1-9. She loves reading books and singing songs- she just soaks it all in. It amazes me how you tell her something one time and she randomly remembers it later. You cannot pull a fast one on her, for example if you try to deflect something like she wants a sucker and I tell her ok you can have one after your nap, dinner, and bath then you can have one- the girl never forgets!
Our princess is still taking 4 hour marathon naps and is a great eater (but very VERY messy eater). Her favorite and will eat at any given time foods are: any type of noodles, STRAWBERRIES, lunch meat, EGGS w/ham and cheese, cereal, chicken nuggets, apples, CHEESE, yogurt, applesauce, and well of course TREATS.
Mckell, we sure love and adore you to pieces! Even though you're stubborn like your daddy and sassy like your mamma- we can't get enough! You have us and everyone else wrapped around your little finger. Happy Birthday sweet girl!
