This little girl...

This little girl of ours has been delighting us for 21 months...she's almost two years old. She speaks in sentences that surprise and shock us. She likes to jump and she tries to take clothes off all by herself...sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. She goes to sleep all by herself now. She likes to watch Monsters vs. Aliens and scream when it frightens her. She rakes leaves. She can't eat enough meat these days, and she she uses a magic wand to turn things into oddities on random little girl whims...things like cats, and cheese, and little boys...She says that she's coloring inside the lines even when she isn't. She likes to feed her fish. She is infatuated with Alex the Lion from Madagascar, and just about her favorite toys on the planet are two little plastic Strawberry Shortcake figures from McDonalds Happy Meals. She still walks into walls. She runs in circles around the house and would almost rather do nothing more than be chased. She likes to wash dishes. She wears 3T pajamas and is just a few inches short of three feet tall. She wears pigtails pretty regularly these days, and she still torments the cat. She says please and thank you without being told. She can say Michigan but has trouble with DeWagner...she's close, but BeWanger isn't her last name.

This little girl is almost two years old...not for another three months, but it's coming fast. Where did two years go?