A full of life 2 year old

Delaney is 2 years and 3 months right now.  She is into everything and knows so much about life.  She is so compassionate.  She looks at me says, “love you”, kisses me and waits on my smile.  She wants to make Blake happy, she’ll share her toy with him even if it’s her favorite.  If she tastes something that is so good she just has to make sure someone else tries it and likes it, even though it means less for her.  She loves to cuddle too and hug all the time, sometime I get irritated because she’s loving on me so much, really?  I need to get over that and take every hug I can get!  however there is a non compassionate side to her when it comes to nature and bugs…this bug on the left lived about 1/2 second after this picture was taken.

This look on her is such a classic Delaney look.  She is expressional about most things.  When she hears something she makes this face and points to her ear waiting on our reaction to say we hear it too or to tell her what it is.  She is talking in sentence some of the time now.  She comes up with the most random things to say sometimes, she’ll remember something from yesterday or last week and just blurt it out randomly.  She sings songs in the car, at night and other times, some favorite are “Take me out to the Ballgame” that goofy sings, she’ll request it by saying “Mick Mouse Cub house” in the car for that CD, Blake encourages her to sing, he just started himself.  She requests “Kum ba (kum ba ya)”, “Its bitz (Itsy Bitsy Spider), and “Hump Dump (Humpty Dumpty)” at night right now, I made a tune up for Humpty Dumpty.  She can also sing a bit of her ABC’s. “ABCDOPHJ”.  The “op” in in everything she does when she sees letters or talks about them.  It’s very cute and I hope to remember it.

She goes to the potty and likes to do it by herself telling us to get out.  She can do it alone too, she’s had very few accidents in the last month, none over the past 4-5 days.  Nighttime and naptime has been a struggle lately, she wants us to read 20 books, and rock her for ever.  She gets very hyper at bedtime and takes a while to go to sleep.  She likes to have her baby and monkey, “hee hee ha ha” is what she calls her, in bed with her.  (To the right is a picture of her getting Miss Monkey’s arm sewed back during Come-See-Me at the bear hospital the Animal Clinic did).  Once she does go to sleep she is out for the night though.  Usually about 7:30pm-6:30 or 6:45am.  Naps vary everyday. Sometimes she’ll go right to sleep, usually I have to go back in there for her to poop, another rock, or to put her clothes back on her.  She loves to strip and through everything out of her crib, not herself yet, I’m waiting on that.

She loves to be upside down, flung around, dropped, she takes gymnastics and flips all around, stands on her head, swings on the bars.  She is fearless and loves to try new things.  Things that we would encourage Blake because he’s 3 to do she tries first and usually succeeds.  Like riding in the front of the train, notice where Delaney is and Blake is near the back with daddy riding with him.  Even when she was little, getting her to sleep was difficult until we moved fast or rocked her hard, she is an on the go little girl.  She loves to run, ride her bike, jump, and twirl, where ever she is, whenever she wants.  She does not sit on her bottom, she’s up on her knees or feet squatting ready to be on the move at any time.  She has taught Blake to wrestle and roll around, she has encouraged him already to be a little more risky than he wants to be.  Below she has an inch worm on her finger, once Blake realized what it was and she started towards him with it he was gone, she chased him with it until she smooched it. 

Her hair has gotten much longer now and she wear pig tails most days.  bows still won’t stay for very long, just because there isn’t much hair and they gradually fall out as she’s moving 100 miles per hour.

She loves school and has several friends that she calls by name now, including “Harp (Harper)”, “No no (Norah)”, but I hear Maleigh is her favorite friend, they tend to miss each other and lean on each other throughout the week.  They are both there 4 days and the others are only 2 which probably makes a difference.  She loves art time and many times they have to distract her so she isn’t over there doing art with all the other kids in class too. “Mace (Miss Mayci) and “Kel (Miss Kelli)” are her teachers this year and they both seemed to really enjoy her. Especially Mayci who tells me all the time how much she loves her and she’s her favorite. She’s on her way to school with her bee book bag (change of clothes and accessories that she was pulling out and putting on, can you tell where I wear my glasses most of the time?)

She does get in trouble, we haven’t really figured out the best way to punish her.  She gets her feelings hurt easy.  Here I was in the kitchen and they were playing so well on their own that I left them, then I heard an ut oh from Blake and I went in to find this.  Marker on the floor and a naked Delaney.  I send her to the corner to time out, which used to work, she doesn’t care much about it now, will stand there until I tell her to come out and she comes to say she’s sorry, give a kiss and does it again.  What to do with her?  We have tried to pop her bottom, but she’ll cry for 5 seconds and just says “pop me no”, or just “pop me” while shaking her head no which is what she usually does.   

Kindermusik at church on Wednesday nights is fun and she is once again running around everywhere.  She enjoys the instruments and interacting with others in the class.  John Howard and Allen, the two boys at church her age are in there with her and she’ll usually go up to them and hug them when they come in, sometimes laying a big kiss right on their faces.  Allen gets red in the face, John Howard kisses her right back.  I love that she’s a people person, even in stores she gets many smiles, but those that know her always have such good compliments about her.  She is good around baby-sitters, teachers, friends, grandparents, etc., but at home she tests her limits all the time, guess it’s better that way than the other way around.

Believe it or not she is girly too, she loves to dress up, wear make up, have her toes painted, and get her hair done and cut (pretend cut right now).  She carries her babies around and changes their diapers.  It’s sweet seeing her being a little girl, doing little girl things.

She likes to ask for snacks all the time, but she doesn’t eat much of anything at one sitting.  We have to beg her to eat, feed her while on the go, or make it new and fun some how each meal.  She usually will eat lots of fruit and carbs without begging, but vegetables, not usually.

She is Delaney, a unique little girl that holds my heart in her hand.  I love her so much and look forward that what each day brings with her.