We celebrated in Reno with Nana, Gregg and Ashley, Daddy, Mommy, and Peyton
We celebrated in Placerville with The Molinari's
Nona, Papa, Uncle Andew, Uncle Matt, Auntie Shell, Joey, Anna, Charlie, Daddy, Mommy, and Peyton
The BIG 2 year old present was a play kitchen that everyone pitched in for it, including Pops and Ama who are not pictured but celebrated with us earlier. She LOVES it and plays a lot! She is still in the stage of "concrete" so she does a lot of dumping and reorganizing and shifting. But, once in awhile, and more and more, she will move into the realm of "make believe" and pretend to cook us stuff. It's SO CUTE and I look forward to many more plastic and wooden divine and delicious creations.
To save you, and me, all the details of that past month and all the new changes I will just outline it briefly-some things I'd like to relive, others...not so much. :)
In the past month Sierra:
1. Has decided that she can do EVERYTHING herself! "No, I do it." or "Sierra do it!" are phrases I hear A LOT!
2. Insists on getting in and out of the car and carseat by herself, but taking an HOUR to do it!
3. She needs to put on her own shoes, but can't really, except her rain boots (which she calls her princess shoes because they have the Disney Princess logo on them). Which means we wear rain boots on most days, rain or shine. It's ok right now cause it's raining a lot!
4. She is perfecting her pulling on and off of her pants and so we are gearing up for potty training NEXT WEEK!
5. She shows a tremendous interest in going pee-pee and poo-poo in the big girl potty but has yet, except once, to make it in. With that said she can sit on that thing for up to an hour waiting in anticipation. Well, she isn't sitting the whole time it's more like this: sit, wait, get up, look, read a potty book, stand, sit, stand, sit, wipe, flush, get down, put on pants, take them off, get back on potty, sit, wait, read a a potty book, stand turn around look, sit again, stand again, climb down, climb back up, wipe, flush...and on and on for an hour...this girl has an IRON bladder! More often than not I get very bored of the bathroom so Peyton and I just leave her in there to tend to herself.
6. Needless to say, with turning 2 comes potty training and we are jumping in full force next week.
7. She can now climb all the way up the very tall bar stool and back down, which means she has now gained the knowledge of how and the desire to climb even more on EVERYTHING (tables, counters, couches, beds, etc.)
8. Sierra is very active and needs a lot of running around. By the age of two she has ran 4 full miles (1 mile per time), she has been known to run each and every aisle of Costco and the perimeter twice before slowing down...and that's just for a quick break.
9. She's VERY good at kicking a ball and playing soccer and has recently gotten very exciting about RIDING A BIKE! This is particularly exciting to Jeff, for obvious reasons. We are looking into a Strider bike for Christmas. :)
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| Her original choice of entrance into her new bed |
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| Sierra helping Daddy build her "Big Girl Bed" |
10. Biggest and Greatest milestone to date---A BIG GIRL BED. Yep! Two nights ago we moved Sierra into a toddler bed and she absolutely LOVES it! She has slept better than ever and is SO good at sleeping now. :) I am overjoyed that is hasn't been the headache I was expecting. But, she is VERY proud of her "big girl bed" and even helped daddy put it together.
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| All snuggled up! |
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| Showing how well she sleeps-Night Night |
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| Excited to be a Big Girl! :) |
**My, oh My how time flies! Enjoy as many minutes of every day as possible! :)
