Dear Anna,
Today you turned 21 months old. So much closer to two than one, it’s amazing how much you’ve changed from baby to little girl in this past month!
You love your books, just like your big sister. Your new thing is to let me read you a book, then you take the book from me and read it, page for page, back to me. You have a crazy good memory, and even though you don’t say every word in the book, it’s remarkable to know what parts you enjoyed enough to retell. You will even do this with books we haven’t read for a while, or at least not since before you started reading them back to me. Like I said, your memory is really, really good.
You have 14 teeth now, but I know for sure that there are two more working on popping out sooner rather than later. I can *almost* feel them poking through, but it’s hard to be brave enough to stick my finger in there with all those teeth you already have!
You love being outside. You would live outside if you could! Your first request after breakfast is “shoes, ‘side!” every morning. And now that we have the sandbox, it’s become “shoes, ‘side, sand-ee box!” Days when you get to come out early enough to see Carrie off on the bus are the most exciting, and you adore walking to “Gamma’s” house to see Grandpa (and Grandma when she’s not at work.)
You love the pinwheels I “planted” in our front garden. You look out of the family room window every day and point to the “flow-ahs” and try to blow through the window to make them spin. You love to carry them around and hold them up in the breeze.
You have a new baby doll, who at one point was named “Nemo” but now just appears to go by “Baby”. She’s pretty much become your lovey – she has to sleep with you, and not only that but I have to put her to bed too. If I sign “I love you” to you as I start to leave your room, I hear “Mom-eeee! Show Baby!” and I have to sign “I love you” to Baby as well.
You know, I think you must practice being cute and adorable while you are happily playing in your crib before anyone else gets up in the morning. It’s the only way you could have gotten so good at it. Pretty soon, the cuteness might overwhelm us all!
Love, Mommy