Madison 2 year Update

Like I said, I'm a little behind in my updating. It's been several months since I posted Madison's developments. On September 11th she had her 2 year check up (we tried to do it earlier, but Dr Pattan was busy with back to school physicals for her other patients). Madison is 33 1/4 inches tall and weighs 27.4 lbs. This puts her right at the 50% for growth in both areas. People often tell us Madison looks so tall- it must be her long legs that are deceiving. Her weight gain has slowed down, but Dr Pattan says this is normal for her age. The doctor continues to be impressed with Madison's intelligence.

We stopped counting her vocabulary words a long time ago as there were too many to keep track of. Every day she says or does something new. She knows all her colors now, but often gets pink and purple mixed up. She recognizes all basic shapes including, circle, square, rectangle, oval (which she refers to as 'egg'- we're still working on that), triangle, diamond, star, and octagon. She also recognizes most letters in the alphabet. We are still working on F, H, I, J, Q, R, U, V, and Z. She knows all the others. She can count to 15 now, but skips 13.

Her favorite things to do are watch Noggin, play with her kitchen-including 'cooking' her snacks, and reading. She also loves her new Potato Head family (Mommy's friend Darcy got her a set with Mr, Mrs, and baby Potato Heads as a late birthday present) and can often be found with 'tato head' lips on her face. Madison thinks it's funny to hand Mommy a tato head arm and hold one herself, then wave them and say 'Hello, hello'.

She has bins of books in every room of our house! She even reads to us now. She memorized Little White Fish Gets Bigger-a book about a little fish who turns two that Gramm brought, Good Night Moon, and parts of Queen Clara- a book Pop brought back from England, and Ten Apples Up on Top- a birthday book from 'Grandma' Quessie in Florida. Probably the most impressive is the two year old book as it has words like Sea Urchin, Shrimp, and Octopus.

Madison makes us laugh with the silly things she says. Everything is a sentence these days, although she often gets her nouns and verbs backwards. Example: 'Mommy, hurt the eyes' instead of 'the eyes hurt' when she gets water in them in the bathtub.

She is fascinated with her baby sister now. Madison is always touching her legs, arms, and head; and pointing out her different body parts. 'Baby Kennenee's ears, mouth, fingers, toes, shoulder, etc...' . She laughs and makes a surprised face every time Kennedy poops since it is pretty loud, and is quick to point out every time her sister cries. Madison also thinks its funny when Kennedy nurses. She points and says, 'Baby sister has the mommy bottle'. Of course Matt thinks it's hysterical Madison refers to Mommy's boobs as bottles. We are just thrilled she doesn't want to nurse, too.

We are not pushing potty training just yet. She tried it a little before Kennedy arrived and didn't take to it. The pediatrician recommends relaxing on it for now as she has lots to get used too with the arrival of baby sister. Ironically, this weekend she decided it would be fun to sit on the potty until she had to go 'tee tee'. We sat in the bathroom together for 20 minutes at one point! She went tee tee on the potty twice this weekend, otherwise she is still in size 4 diapers during the day and 5 at night. We tried pull ups but she isn't interested.
It's truly amazing how quickly the is learning and discovering new things. Almost every night Matthew and I sit back and laugh at the new phrases that come out of her mouth or the silly dances and songs she makes up. She is quite the crack up!
In this posted photo Madison is having a tea party with Daddy and her caterpillar.