23 months!

I still find it hard to believe we're throwing a party for a 2 year old next month! Where has the time gone?

This months' big achievements:

• Watching the Blue Angels fly!
• Wanting to do everything herself.
• Even more talking! She now knows tons of phrases, and will happily do this exchange:     "Mommy, how you do?"     "I'm good, how are you?"     "I'm pretty good! Thanks!"
• Even pickier eating (ugh!) She's definitely going to remain a skinny-mini at this rate.
• Moving faster than Mommy can shoot the photo. This months' picks were few, as most either had other people in them (and I hate asking permission), or were so blurry they weren't worth it. Maybe she'll start stopping when Mommy says "say cheese!"?
• Playing pretend! She wants to do everything and anything! Real is of course preferable, but she's very pleased to share meals with Dolly, go "shopping," fly on her airplane, or take care of her baby (whom she often cries for when it's sad).
• "Painting" with shaving cream. It's hard to say no to clean fun before/during bath time.
• Being OUTSIDE. Unfortunately, the high tick numbers have kept us indoors more lately than the rain has. 6 on our family already so far, and tick season has barely begun! 
• Preschool story hour at the library. I had pretty much given up taking her as she really didn't seem to care and just could not sit still. Then we started up again and suddenly she gets super excited about it. If I accidentally mention it too early, she'll grab her shoes and point to the door and say "Library. We go now? We walk?" She will then sit perfectly still as the reader reads a few books and the other kids sing songs (apparently she's not big on participation just yet). She hates that I still have to help her during craft time, though (sorry kid, you're just not quite ready for scissors and glue).