Rose is just as sweet as her name sounds. I’m pretty sure that God gave me a practically perfect daughter in order to convince me to have more children after her. I’m not saying she is perfect, because she definitely has her two year old moments. But I just feel like I lucked out in the daughter department big time.
About Rose at Two:
- She loves books. She doesn’t like to sit still but read a pile of books to her and she will be content for an hour.
- On that note, she will also sit still for a while if Daniel Tiger is on. She loves Daniel Tiger, he’s one of her best friends.
- She loves to help me with anything I’m doing (cooking, dishes, laundry, changing diapers, getting a blanket for Lucy, etc. Picking up items of clothing and saying “dirty?” And taking it to where the dirty laundry goes (even if it isn’t dirty).
- She loves to say “Bless you!” When someone sneezes. It sounds more like "mess you!"
- She loves being around people. She loves listing off the names of everyone she knows and talking about them. (For example, Ryan’s friend Preston who she thinks is SO cool. He rides a motorcycle and whenever she sees a motorcycle she says “Preston? Bike? Preston backpack? Preston’s puppy?") For her birthday I made her a book with pictures of everyone in our family so she could flip through it and say everyone's names.
- For a while she loved giving "big hugs" and "nose sisses" (kisses), but now she’s just a little too busy doing important toddler things to stop and give hugs.
- She loves to go outside. Her favorite thing is walks when she can walk and be free, but she will settle for the stroller or being carried if it means going outside. Her favorite item to find is rocks and flowers are pretty cool too.
- She likes being able to look out the window now that she is finally big enough to be in a forward facing car seat. On a drive the other day we passed a semi truck and she said “woah! Das a biiiiig tuck!”
- Her favorite food is sauce (preferably in the form of ranch dressing or fry sauce but if she can dip her food or fingers in it, then she loves it, she has also been known to drink it.) Other foods she loves: chocolate, candy, broccoli, salad, yogurt, and all fruit.
- She loves hats and shoes. Hers and other people’s. She can often be found trying on both. (The funniest is when she wears Lucy’s hats and mom’s shoes, the cutest is when she wears dad’s hat.)
- Rose prefers to do things on her own. "Rosie do it!" is what she says when I try to help her.
- Rose loves when people laugh. She says "Is that funny?" about a million times a day. And it's super cute.
- Rose is pretty easygoing and sweet about 95% of the time, but what really turns her into a typical two year old is her dad. There is like this switch that flips when Ryan is trying to get Rose to do anything verses when I try. It's actually pretty hilarious because she turns into this teeny tiny defiant human being that she isn't normally. One thing that really cracks me up is when Rose is doing something she isn't supposed to and Ryan says "You better stop before I count to three! Oooone." and then Rose says "twwwoooooooo" in her little high pitched voice, proud of herself for knowing the next number. haha and not even a little bit afraid of her dad.
- Rose knows and can recognize the letters "A" "S" "R" "E" and "W" and sometimes she remembers "V for Vorkink"
- Her favorite song is "Your Welcome" from Moana.
- She loves "treats" meaning anything sweet, taking after her mom she seems to expect dessert about 300 times a day.
- She gets very upset when life takes away from her very important work of playing with her toys. The other day I gave her a bath and when I tried to put her diaper on afterward, she ran away yelling "pay toys!!!" ("play with toys") and was playing with the magnets on the fridge while completely naked. I got a picture for the scrapbooks... but not for the internet.
- Rose is a little bit cautious compared to some of her cousins and friends the same age. She's never liked being thrown into the air, however, climbing on top of things has never been scary to her. So, she's just choosy with the kind of adrenaline rush she likes to have.
- It took us ages to teach her the number 3. For the longest time she would count "One, two, six, seven" and then one day I was trying to get a video of her counting like that and she decided then to count to three.
- She loves when we say prayers. Every night when we tuck her in she reminds us to say a prayer and sometime after we say "amen" she says "again?" and like the heathens we are, we say "no more prayers tonight, we'll say another one tomorrow." haha
- At her 2 year check up she was 23 lbs and 35 inches tall. She's in the 86 percentile for her height and 13th percentile for weight. So, tall and skinny. We've been trying to fatten her up so that she can fit in her life jacket this summer. But considering it's taken 6 months for her to gain 2 lbs, I'm thinking the 7 lbs she needs to fit into her life jacket just isn't going to happen this year... she is healthy and happy though. It's just the way her body wants to be.
- A few days before her birthday we tried to get her excited about it by telling her it was almost her birthday and that she was going to be turning two. We also started saying we would open presents and have cake. The big thing she took away was that birthday = cake. So, when we said "Rose, it's almost your birthday!" she would look at us with her beautiful giant Vorkink eyes, tilt her head, and say "caaaakkkee?" With a big grin on her face. and since her birthday that's also what she remembers the most. When we went to the pediatrician for her 2 year check up he asked her how her birthday was and she just said "cake" haha She has her priorities straight, that's for sure.
For Rose's birthday I made a chocolate-y chocolate cake with chocolate sour cream frosting and strawberries on top. She didn't like the idea of blowing out the candles. She was excited about the cake but then acted like we were punishing her by trying to show her how to blow them out. When we took the candles out she was happy about the cake again. We celebrated with Ryan's family who were in town for the weekend. And Rose got some clothes, a pair of sandals, a baseball hat so she could match mom and dad, a life jacket, a backpack to carry her toys, a little car, some alphabet fridge magnets, and two books (the family pictures one and one about Jesus.)
We just love this sweet little girl of ours. She's spunky, fun, kind, a little naughty, silly, helpful, and oh so cute. She's my little buddy and I just know that as she get's older she is going to be one of my best friends. I can't wait to see what the rest of her life has in store for her. <3
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