Happy 2nd Birthday, Lincoln!
We love you to pieces and enjoy your personality more and more every day. You are talking mostly in sentences, you are a true helper at heart, you love people and their attention and you are super curious about life.
Here are your two year stats:
- You weigh about 31 pounds and somewhere around 35 inches tall.
- You wear mainly 24 month/2T clothes but you can still fit into some 18 month pants. You wear a size 6-7 shoe.
- You are still a great eater. Some of your favorite foods are HOT DOGS (you ask for one at every meal and every drive through we go to), green beans, grapes, pears, pretzel sticks, and bananas.
- You are a BIG drinker. You can easily drink 7-8 sippy cups a day of milk and water.
- You are still a great sleeper. You go to bed like a champ and sleep a pretty solid 11-12 hours each night. You love our bedtime routine. We tell you to go find your lovie and your drink so we can go read a book and you run fast trying to find them both wherever you left them last. You love to pick out the book we read and usually end up picking about 3 more for us to read. You then like to go put up your own drink in the fridge and then run to your bed and say "up" for us to put you in. You love to sleep with Elmo, actually 2 of them. We use to leave a lamp on for you while you fell asleep but now you want the lamp turned off.
- You still take one nap a day from about 1:00-3:00. Sometimes longer and sometimes a little shorter. You love to sleep with your pillow over your head.
- You just started getting in your 2 year molars on top.
- You are "tube-less" We took you to the ENT last week and both of the tubes in your ears had fallen out of the ear drum but not all the way out of your ear. So the doctor had to remove them. You laid on the table wrapped up in a sheet like a mummy while the nurse held your head and daddy held your arms down. You just laid there with your eyes closed and never cried for about 10 minutes while she removed the tubes. No drugs were involved. You were so brave.
- You are continuing to talk more and more. Your language is a real mixed variety of basic words you still cannot say, single words, 2-3 word phrases and even sentences. Mainly you speak half in phrases and half in sentences. Your sentences started happening consistently around 23 months. You say things like "Where did daddy go?, I need more snack, I need a hot dog, I play ball with daddy, I see Barney/Elmo or whoever." But there are still basic words you won't say like DRINK!! You still use your homemade sign your made up for drink and will NOT say the word.
- You have transitioned to call Dada "Daddy" and calling me "Mommy" about half the time but you still call me Momma on occasion.
- You call yourself "Nee-nan" And you refer to yourself in third person often. You will say "Mommy, daddy, Nee-nan." "Yeah, Nee-nan"
- You are territorial and love to identify what items belongs to who. For example, while I fold clothes you sit there and list off what items belongs to each person. If I correct you then you adamantly repeat your answer as if it is correct.
- Your #1 favorite toy is a ball. You also love to use a kitchen spatula to hit the ball either baseball style or golf style. You also love airplanes, blocks, singing animals, blankets, books, and puzzles.
- You love to point out other "mommies" and "daddies" when we are in a store
- You are starting to make choices. When we give you the option of one item over the other you tilt your head to the side and say "Ummm...that one" and point to the one your want. You think everytime you get in a shopping cart you need a "snack"
- Your strength are your gross motor skills. You can run and have been able to for months. You can kick a ball, throw a ball far and fast, hit a baseball off a tee and catch a ball. You run more than you walk and you love to run and dive on top of your bean bag.
- You love to help out. If something of mine or your dad's is out of place then you run to get it and go put it up in it's place. You love to help put away the groceries when we get home from the store, find and throw away any trash and "clean up" your toys.
- You continue to have a true love for music. Watching live music videos is your favorite, especially ones where they show all the members of the band and each instrument they are playing. You imitate whatever musical instrument you see - piano, guitar and drums are your favorite. In order to request us to play your music on my phone, the car or the computer you say "Momma" and then dance your body back and forth. You cannot say the word music yet but we know what you are wanting.
- You love to sing songs as well. Your favorites are "Zaccheaus, was a wee little man", "Wheels on the bus", "This little light of mine", "Clean up song"
- You often randomly give me hugs and kisses without me asking
- You continue to have a strong love for your lovie and sleep with lots of blankets
- When all three of us are playing together you make sure that everyone has a toy in the hand. For example, if you want to play with the ball and spatula then you go and find a ball for each me and daddy as well as a spatula/baseball bat/golf club or something equivalent. You want us both to be holding and playing with the same thing you are playing with.
- Your favorite "characters" are Elmo and Barney.
- You love it when daddy comes home from work.
- Your favorite friend is at the babysitters and her name is Addison but you call her "Add-a" and you talk about her all the time.
- You somewhat understand that you will soon be a big brother. When we ask you where your baby sister is your pull up your shirt and point to your stomach.
Happy birthday sweet boy! We can hardly believe your second year has already come and gone. We have had a blast learning about you and teaching you new things. We look forward to another year of fun memories with you!
Daddy and Mommy.
