Dani- 28 Months

Age: 2 years 4 months

Clothes: She has gotten really into dressing herself. Which means we might leave the house with her pants on backwards under a skirt with last night's night shirt over the top of her clean shirt. She also discovered my old wooden clogs from when I was her age and she loves nothing more than stomping around on our wood floors in them.

Favorite Foods: Toast, Chocolate Milk, Mac and Cheese, Pizza, Go Gurt, and Treats. Mom says that she asks for treats the way I used to ask for candy.

Words: She knows lots of words but there are a few that she says the unfortunately sound like cuss words. For example, Chocolate Milk comes out sounding like Cock Milk. And Kitty sounds like Shitty

Activities: Still really into babies. The other day she was playing with her baby and channeled her inner Aunt Kik by spanking it and saying "Bad Baby." She is also really into Shopping. She askes every day if she can go shopping. The other day Andrew and I were watching a Christmas movie and Dani was playing. She grabbed a target bag and put some of Andrews keys (not car keys) and pooh bear and blanket in the bag, slung it over her shoulder and said "bye bye going shopping" and gave Andrew and I kisses and walked away.
After about 20 min Andrew said "did Dani put herself down for her nap?" And he went to check on her. He yelled that she wasn't there and I immediately asked "she didn't actually go out the front door did she?" So we ran outside and Dani was sitting in the drivers seat of Andrews car, keys in the ignition and pooh Buckled into the car seat. Lights on, blinker going. And she just looks at us and goes "I go shopping!"
Favorite Things: People are her favorite things. All of her family and friends. She asks daily about each one of them and what they are doing at that moment. If she could she would live in a compound with everyone so she never has to say good bye to them again.

Signature Moves: She has a tender sensitive little heart hiding behind her stubborn 2 year old self. The other night had a bad headache and went to bed early. She came running in and asked "what's wrong mommy" and so I told her I have an owie on my head, and she ran off to play again. The next morning we were snuggling on the couch and she reached up and kissed my head and asked "mommy's head owie?" I just couldn't believe she remembered.

Mom's Proudest Moment: I love the way she embraces all her friends. Everyone is a friend and she gets so excited to see them and she squeals and runs and hugs them and I hope she never looses that excitement and love for the people in her life.

Dad's Proudest Moment: It's been a hard few months because Dani is highly preferring me right now, and can be pretty mean to Andrew. We are working on it. But the other night she had skipped her nap and I was busy, so she was letting Andrew hold her on his lap and she fell asleep. I looked over and asked Andrew "kinda makes up for all the brattiness during the day huh?" He was so happy to just be able to snuggle her.

22 Weeks

How far along: 22 Weeks

Total weight gain: 3 lbs

Maternity clothes: Getting close. There is still one pair of jeans I can wear and most of my tops still fit.

Stretch marks: Nope

Sleep: I have been waking up with lots of headaches. So I started sleeping with my TMJ mouth guard again and went to the Chiropractor which definitely helped, but I also noticed that the way I was sleeping was causing my neck to tense up. So I have been really careful about the way I sleep.

Best moment of this week:Found out last week that we are having another GIRL!! I'm excited for Dani to have a little sister she can dote on and take care of.

Miss anything: Not being achey. Standing up without my hips cracking. Putting on socks with 2 hands

Movement: She is a wild women. The Ultrasound tech had a hard time getting all the pictures she needed because little girl was all over the place!

Food cravings:Sugar, Milk, Chocolate, Mandrin Oranges

Anything making you queasy or sick: Not really

Have you started to show yet: Yes, people now feel comfortable saying something to me.

Gender: Girl! I'm excited to raise another strong self assured little girl:)

Labor signs: Not really, but I can't tell if I am occasionally having braxtin hicks or if she is just so crazy that i'm feeling her stretch and push everything.

Belly button in or out: getting shallower, I can see the bottom

Wedding rings on or off: On

Happy or moody most of the time: Happy

Looking forward to: Shopping for maternity clothes and having andrew feel the movement