Mid-November came too fast again and before we knew it, our just-seems-like-she-was born GarnerBug got ready for bed for the last time as a 1yr old.
I catch B watching us all the time and finally the other day, he said, "She makes you smile a lot." :) It's been such a blessing this time around to be home fulltime since she was born. It's possible that she is a little clingy because of all that Mama-and-me time, but it seems somehow appropriate for the baby of the family. And if I am honest, I enjoy the mama's girl act more than a little bit after having two Gs who have preferred Daddy 9 times out of 10. :)
SOoooo, what is she like these days? It's hard to spend time talking to or about her without mentioning her eyes. They stop people in their tracks and penetrate right into you when she looks at you. She seems to win hearts easily even while refusing to smile or talk to anyone that she doesn't feel super comfortable with. She's had the great benefit of being the youngest kid in many groups of friends that we're around, which means that she gets lots and lots of sweet attention and babying. Not a bad life.
Over the past few months, her vocabulary has exploded. She still calls her paci "fwa" and her lovey "yile," even though she can say them correctly. She talks in short phrases and sentences these days and says cute words like "o-hay" and "pizzle." She talks louder when she feels like no one's listening to her and cries easily when she doesn't get her way...but then rarely from getting hurt. Her favorite things to do include reading books (would sit for hours), coloring (left-handed), cooking in the play kitchen and playing with baby dolls. She will talk to them, read to them, change their diapers, stroll them around the house, "rock-a-da-baby-treetop" and put them to bed with snuggy blankets. Her content playing has helped her mama so much while homeschooling her big brother!
She sings. ALL.DAY.LONG. Her continuously running playlist includes ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Jesus Loves Me, Itsy Bitsy Spider, You Are My Sunshine and Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus, among any others she hears and repeats. She has started saying our daily verses with us and can count to the teens. Colors are a different story...the idea seems foreign, with "wed" being her answer everytime you ask her what color something is. :) She L.O.V.E.S her playschool teacher, Mrs. Windy (just like Greer did when she was her age) and came home this month singing the classic "God Our Father" when we bow for the blessing.
She's a petite little thing, 20th-%ile in height and 50th in weight...with a cute round belly that's hard to cover with toddler-sized shirts. We are so blessed that she's healthy, eats and drinks well and still loves her sleep. She also still really loves to be held, but we are continuing to work on balancing good snuggles with teaching her to walk some too so that I don't have to spend our whole budget at the orthopedic.
She adores her brother and sister and greets them every morning with a "Hey Geh! Hey Gweer!" and they dote on her incessantly in return. And oh, her daddy-love...when she sees any sort of sports playing field on tv or in person, she exclaims "Go Dada!" and will answer "work, at fitball" when you ask where he is during the day. They rock and read every night together before bed and seriously, it makes me want to stop time right there and take an obnoxious amount of videos of them. In the crazy busy of life with 3 littles, I love those moments that make you pause and give thanks and pray for this time to last longer.
I can't wait to see how her personality develops over this next year. She is definitely coming into the 2s where taking a simple family picture can be difficult and finding cooperation at times is impossible. But all in all, she is just cute and sweet and easy. Happy 2nd birthday, Garner...we love you more than you know!!
(Had to include that last pic in honor of the 2s...just imagine it accompanied with an "uuuhhhhhh!" :))
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