Summer and Potty Training!

Summer is coming to a close my darling little girl -- but it's been so much fun. I'll talk more about that shortly.  but first -- let's talk about you!  You're just incredible baby girl.  You are so big now and have definitely crossed into toddler-hood.  You can now pretty talk to the point where we understand everything (almost that you say).  Recently -- I couldn't believe it when you said 'my pants are falling down'.  I didn't know that you could even string words like that together.  You're also potty training right now and doing a fantastic job of it!  By in large #2 is in the potty and we're getting there with #1.  So soon, all of the babies are going to out of diapers in the house!  You get very excited about this -- as do we and we hand out chocolate chips to celebrate.

In terms of likes -- you love the swing set outside.  we recently updated the swing from a baby swing to a full regular swing.  That's worked great and it's one of your favorite things to do outside.  You love riding the gator and have so much with that.  You ride in our lap and sometimes like to pretend like you're driving.  You also love the creek honey and love to play in the water.  Your new found passion is water squirt guns and you enjoy squirting mommy and daddy's toes.  In other news, you're an amazing sponge of knowledge Aeowyn -- you love to read your books and still are madly in love with Sesame Street.  we've been reading a new Sesame Street book about going back to school in order to get you ready to go in a couple weeks.  I think you're definitely ready. You already know many of your colors, can count pretty much up to 10 and know many of your A,B,Cs.  You call Sesame Street your babies.  Pink is definitely still your color of choice -- and you love your pink blankets.  You're also very helpful about the house and love to help us in the kitchen to wash dishes.  I think you could actually do that for hours on end.  You're also a very good artist honey and love to color.  You can sit there and color for the longest time -- it's really amazing to see your concentration for a two year old.

Summer has been just great this year.  Over the summer, we went to Masanutten with many of our family friends,  we went to the farm and you also went on a trip with mommy, Usha auntie, Nisha auntie to New York to visit Savitha auntie.  Summer has been filled with trips to Great Falls park, Smithsonian parks, Sport bounce and children museums. I'd need to write about 20 pages to talk about all of these experiences and am sorry that I didn't keep up with the blogs this summer.  I promise we'll do better this fall.

You're also fiercely independent Aeowyn.  You love to do things on your end and love to run around the house without clothes on.  You pick out your own shirts and pants now and even brush your own teeth at night.  You are very much all about mommy right now.  You play the same game as the boys about wanting mommy to put you at bed at night instead of daddy -- and howl in protest if daddy puts you to bed -- but soon get excited about rocking in the chair, singing our good night song:

"Time to go to sheepy sheepy sheep... time to go to sheepy sheepy sheep.  time to go to sheepy sheep -- it's time to go to sheep.  Mommy and daddy love you very much, mommy and daddy love you very much, mommy and daddy love you so much it's time to go to sheep"

Mommy and daddy are so proud of you Aeowyn!  We cannot believe that you're starting school already. It's come too soon -- but you're going to be simply incredible!  We love you!