2 years old

On Wednesday, July 20, Brooke turned 2 years old.  I cannot believe my baby is 2 already!!  She is talking in complete sentences and is the smartest 2 year old I know!  She knows all of her colors and shapes, counts to 10 in English and in Spanish, sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; and knows her ABC's.  She also can tell you what month and day it is (right now, she say Jew-lie!!!! and Friiidayyyy! haha).  Her teachers are so amazed by her and could not say enough about how smart she is - they even took a video of her doing a little puzzle thing - it's all round holes, and you match the colors and textures.  The video is the first time that Brooke ever did it, and she did it all correctly in, like, 20 seconds!  If someone else is doing it and having trouble, they said Brooke goes and does it for them. 

She is also the most opinionated, stubborn, and sometimes bossy 2 year old I know - let's just say I am raising an independent thinker and leave it at that ;-)

Her 2 year appointment isn't until 8/3, so I won't know her height and weight until then.

Yesterday, we had a little party for her at daycare.  The theme was Mickey & Minnie go to the beach.  I got her a cake that had Mickey surfing & Minnie laying out on the sand, and the plates, etc. were Minnie Mouse. We also did a Minnie Mouse pinata filled with Goldfish crackers, bracelets for the girls, bouncy balls, crayons, and mini rubber duckys.  I gave the kids adorable favors that had: sand buckets, beach balls, ponytail holders for the girls, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, flavor-ice freeze pops, crazy straws, more Goldfish crackers, and mini Frisbees.  All of the kids had a blast!

We did have some excitement last weekend, but I will save that for another post!

Tomorrow is Brooke's birthday party at home, which I am looking forward to.