two weeks till TWO

I am getting really sad about my Maddie turning two. Recently the tantrums have made way to some really cute dialogue. She constantly says ' thank you Mommy" or " yellow, peas, Mommy" ( translation ' jello, please, mommy') . She come take your hand and lead you to wherever she wants to go. If she feels you are sitting too long, she will tell you " UP!", and try to physically move you herself. She counts to twenty- well tries to , it sometimes goes like this " one two fee, foooooour, eleben,tev, four-ten,.....-pause-'six'". She likes for you to sing the alphabet song. Her favorite book right now is Curious George and the Bunnies, and she knows what happens on every page. When the bunny runs away and George is sitting in the grass, she says " Sad...".

And she is crazy about Daddy, or Greg as she sometimes calls him. The picture above was taken the other night in the bathtub. Greg was squirting her with one of the bath toys and she loved it. I love that picture b/c of the sheer joy on her face. She will be a teeenager one day whose goal in life is to avoid your parent seeing you smile( my husband does not understand this, the ways of a teenage girl). I will think back to that night, in the bathtub, my chubby little , almost 2 year old, beautiful girl squealing with delight at a squirty dolphin toy.