The 2 Year Rundown

Items worth sharing:

• Potty training (unsuccessful may I add) beginning 6/27 due to a skin yeast infection in her no no area after several blowouts. Got meds Monday 6/23 and saw no improvement. Hopefully keeping her out of diapers during awake time will make it better. I tried to get her potty trained before I went to work but it was a no go. As soon as I started work (8/14), Ed handled business and she finally got it. It was rough at the beginning (by that I mean that she needed to go pee like every ten minutes) but as the year progressed she has gotten better.
• Her vocabulary has flourished and we are able to have conversations with her. Her sentence structure has gotten progressively better as well. She knows her alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, days of the week, months of the year, and planets. She understands a lot of the Spanish I throw at her but she cannot "converse" back with me. She mimics my Spanish but into gibberish, which is funny to hear.
• She can READ! Like actually get a book and read it! She started doing this at approximately two and a half.  We really haven't "pushed" her to learn to read but there is print while she's watching her shows (we leave the subtitles on ALL the time) and she navigates through many YouTube educational videos that have lots of print too. And she watches a lot of SuperWhy and LeapFrog. I read to her almost every night, mostly the same books over and over to the point where now she has taken over and reads them to me. It's pretty awesome.
• She has been good at sharing time with her little brother, Hudson. It was a rough couple weeks with me not being able to do the night routines we had in place prior to D-day, but once I got back on the band wagon, she has been great. (she was making herself throw up nightly! yikes!)
• She plays better with others (by that I mean with Ensley and Aubrey). She still thinks all kids are "friends."
• We're still pretty pleased with the food choices she makes.  She still enjoys broccoli, peas, edamame, tomatoes and corn. She'll eat a bowl of cherry tomatoes almost everyday! She loves her some tomatoes! As a toddler she obviously eats the "bad" stuff like pizza, fries, nuggets, cookies and ice cream but knowing that she will devour a bowl of those vegetables puts our minds at ease.