Dear Zoë,
Wow. I cannot *believe* you are 2 whole years old. Wow. Just wow. I never really understood the whole "time flies" thing until I had you.
Your stats:
Favorite animal: kitties
Favorite food: I think raisins have been replaced by watermelon, but you really love almost all fruit. Meat is still your least favorite, though it goes better if we tell you it is "dark meat", and you do love fish, and especially shrimp. You do have the ability to tell us when you don't like something - just the other day you licked a lemon then handed it to your daddy and said, "Yucky, I don't like that."
Favorite color: no idea yet
Favorite book: you went through a "One Duck Stuck" phase recently, followed by a week where you loved a Sesame Street book about sharing, and now you seem to be focused on all of your Kitty books without preference to a particular one.
What you sleep with: Big bear, pink bear, other bear, bunny, dollie, mouse, and a pillow, covered by the blanket that Miss Marguerite made you.
Sleeping habits: we try to head up to your room for 3 books before bed at 7:30, which puts you in bed right about 8. Except for weekends, you get woken up at 6:30 to head to school. You nap once a day, usually 2ish hours, though you can go anywhere from 20 minutes to almost 4 hours.
Teeth: 12 - still 4 each top and bottom front, then gaps, then 1 molar each side top and bottom. Though you've had your hands in your mouth constantly for the last week or so, so I'm guessing more are finally on their way.
Words: you can pretty much say anything you want, though you still butcher a few words (nest comes to mind, sounds like mesk), you have a huge vocabulary and pick up words and their meanings quickly and accurately. You can use pronouns appropriately and form complete sentences as long as 7-8 words. You don't do verb tenses much, but you're working on it. You know your alphabet (the song, not the letters) completely and have for quite some time. You know all your colors in English, and most in Spanish. You know every animal known to man in English, and many also in Spanish. And not just in the context of books or other memorized situations. Here's a good story/example.
The other day, it was broad daylight and we were pulling into the driveway,
Z: That's a raccoon.
Parental units: No baby, we don't see it.
Z, pointing: A raccoon, right over there!
P: Are you sure that isn't a squirrel baby?
A minute later, P: Oh my god, Amber, there *IS* a raccoon climbing the tree!
We got told. And I think that's the first real raccoon you'd ever seen! And you ID'd it correctly and stuck to your guns when we didn't believe you.
Counting: you can count to 20 in English, 14 in Spanish, and 5 with your fingers. And you can actually count, meaning you can (though you don't always choose to) point to the objects individually and say the numbers until you get to the end, at which point you stop.
Other skills: you've learned to open doors (goodness help us), you can jump with both feet now but you confine it to the bed where you can land on your butt, you frequently engage in pretend play.
In general: you're an absolute pleasure to have around. Most mornings you wake up happy and sweet and you pretty much stay that way all day. You can be a little bossy, but we'll call that knowing what you want. You are consistently and constantly interested in the world around you, and you are always working on learning new skills. Sometimes you seem to be a study in contrasts, gentle and loving, but mercurial and sharp, too. You laugh out loud when things amuse you. You have me read the same book to you over and over, then sometimes switch to a new one with no warning or reason. You love to run, climb, jump, move. You love books and stuffed animals. You love me and your Daddy, and Gaga and Papi and Sally, and our kitties. You love the beach, the aquarium, the zoo, carousels. All in all, you're probably typically two other than your extraordinary verbal skills. But you are my typically two, so you seem like a miracle every day. As much as I want to freeze you in time right now, I also cannot wait to see what this next year will bring!
I love you,
Mama
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