22 Months

Sadie

At 22 months you are just a ball of energy. People comment on how active you are when we go places! You are so sweet and have been so affectionate lately giving "mooches" with your lips puckered way out and asking for "cuh (cuddle) hugs" all the time. If one parent is disciplining you immediately call the others name followed by "hug" as if we will come to your rescue (yeah right). You love for one of us to snuggle with you before bed and over the past couple of weeks you ask for a "bussh" (book), "towey" (story) and "gace" (amazing grace). Sometimes you ask for a "nyong" (song) and will tell me "no" to each song I start until I get to the one you want. So particular! You put your arms around us and will sometimes cup our face in your hands or stroke our skin. I treasure these moments because they are the only times you will stay still long enough to let me love you up! When you get up each morning you greet us with "mowinggg!" (Morning) and are 100% ready to tackle the day with full energy. Sometimes you will start down the hall saying, "pay toys"! You go on like this, full steam, until your head hits your pillow again (and sometimes even then- womp womp). You love eating and every morning after finishing your 2 scrambled eggs with spinach and cheese you ask for a granola bar and then "bebbies" (berries). I think you would live off of berries if I let you! You love to use utensils on your own and do a really good job with things like yogurt and applesauce. You usually give up on trying to scoop or stab off of a plate and will end up fisting food into your mouth. You have a tea "pahdy" everyday and invite your babies and stuffed animals along each time....you usually pile them onto the empty chair or on top of the table. You are very good at making sure they get "thips" of tea! You are a good little mommy to your babies and put them "nini" with "cuh cuhs" (covers) in their cradle. We just bought you a play mower and you are so proud of it. We took you outside to mow with daddy yesterday and you were beaming. I wonder if you will feel the same way about yard work in 10 ten years! You still love to take baths "bat tub" and help us put your clothes on. Almost everyday I find you sitting with shoes trying to put them on by yourself. You love figuring things out! Things I'm not so thrilled you've figured out:

Opening drawers/doors- two weeks ago you opened a kitchen drawer and found a sharpie that you used to decorate our kitchen. The same week you figured out how to get out of your big girl bed (it took 2.5 months!) and escape from your room. We now lock you in until you've gone to sleep. You have escaped from our house a couple of times and gotten in big trouble for it! I'm glad I realized quickly before you went running down the street or something. If we leave the pantry unlocked you go in and help yourself to a "nak".
Getting out of bed- not only can you escape from your room, but now that you can get out of your bed we have come in after naps to find shoes and books in your bed and one day your big bottle of "shuh shuh" (lotion) that you had so proudly spread all in your hair and on your body. Bless us.
Trash can- I have found you eating food out of our trash can a couple of times recently. One time you had pulled out a container that had rice and it was all over the kitchen floor! You were eating individual rice pellets.

I have loved watching you as a big sister over the past month. You were in love with Walker from the start!! Your nicknames for him are, "poo poop", "pippy" (piggy) and "bebewah". You gasp as if surprised each time he starts to cry and sometimes you try to help him by giving his paci or shushing him and loving on him. Oh how you love to love on him!! Every morning you ask for bebewah first thing and search for him! You love to hug him (with your whole body) and kiss him. You love to imitate his little noises. When he poops you get excited and ask to "see see poop". You also make a throaty cough noise to imitate the sound of his explosions. Hahahaha. You love for Walker to be with us and ask for him to join you. When we were at the park last weekend daddy took you to swing and you pointed to the empty swing beside you and said, "bebewah, too". Daddy had to explain that Walker is still too little to swing but we are so proud of your thoughtfulness! We hope you will always have your brother in mind. :)