Big Girl Bed

A while back I wrote about us potty training Millie. The plan was to start at Christmas, but with everything that comes with the holidays, it really wasn't a good time. After talking with lots of other moms, I realized it was probably a good idea to get her out of the crib bed first before we start the training (which will begin this Saturday). So last Saturday morning, Matt converted Millie's crib into a toddler bed with the railing on the side. She has gone straight to naps and bedtimes with enthusiasm ever since! She loves her "big girl bed." In the mornings when she wakes up, she knocks on her door from inside her room and patiently waits for me to open the door. When I open the door, she'll usually run back into bed. She's just so cute, sometimes I join her. And then I get up very carefully because I don't think that bed is meant to hold all that weight.

Millie turns 2!

If donuts, playhouse, presents, Chick-fil-a, more presents, pizza and cupcakes doesn't spell B.I.R.T.H.D.AY. then I don't know what does. Even though Millie woke up this morning not feeling 100%, I 'm pretty confident she went to bed knowing she was princess for a day (unlike every other day- yeah, right). Her 2 year old doctor visit is on the 25th so we shall know her official weight and height then. For now, my mommy measurements show 34" tall and about 24 lbs.

Millie is talking non-stop and doesn't hesitate to say anything. She loves to color, play with legos, pretend-cook in her kitchen, "talk" on the phone, eat strawberries, watch Dora and Blues Clues, baby dolls, sidewalk chalk, puzzles, Fancy Nancy, any of "Daddy's toys", look at her photo albums of our trip to Disney and her first year, and say "goodnight" to anything that moves, or doesn't. Every night she says goodnight to the cousins next door through her bedroom window, to the moon, to Bella our dog, to her toys, to "KK" (also known as Camden), I mean, anything.

Things she doesn't enjoy are: vegetables, getting shampoo rinsed out of her hair, playing alone while I try to get dinner on the table, eating dinner on most days, and doing what she's told when she's preoccupied with something else. Does this sound like a two year old yet?

I do have to admit though, she's a lot of fun and has got us(mainly her Daddy) wrapped around her lil' pinkie.

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