Someone's turning TWO!

Before I play blog catch up...  I have to write about my excitement and sadness that my itty bitty baby girl is having another birthday. Say it isn't so....  how did this happen.  Our sleepless nights quickly turned to 14 hours of a worn out little girl who talks in her sleep and rubs her arms to comfort herself in the middle of the night.  Our sweet baby that was so timid when we would take her to mdo or church,,,,  now, lets go of our hand and skips into her classrooms with a smile on her face.  That little snuggle bear that used to play with whatever we put in front of her now has her own opinion on what she wants to play with and how she wants to play with it and where she wants to sit when she plays with it and where we are allowed to sit while she plays with it....  on the jigsaw puzzle that IS a toddler.  Our sweet pea that only had freshly pureed veggies and smashed fruit now demands chocolate as a reward if she does ANYTHING remotely clap worthy....   if daddy is around...she gets it.
Life is good.  I don't want to miss a second.  Things change so quickly which makes me realize how precious these last few weeks with just the three of us will be.  I want to soak it all in.  I want to take in the small moments that are all leaving huge memories in my heart.
While getting ready for H's bath time.. I got the water and bubbles ready while T helped her brush her teeth and then she will usually ask to sit on the potty to practice.  We were cheering her on...even though nothing was going on... and she put her arm around T's neck to bring him in for a hug and then grabbed my neck to bring me in and she just held us with the biggest smile.  As crazy as it sounds....  there was so much love in the little bathroom at that moment.  We were almost in tears.  As if that wasn't enough.. during her bath we were all saying ABC's and counting and she said....screamed for us to stop....  she wanted to count all by herself.  So she counted to 5 with her fingers like it was no big deal.  By that time...we were super teary eyed and beyond proud.  You would have though the cure for cancer had just been made by our squeals.
Here is the sweet precious face we have been blessed to call our daughter for the last two years.  And in another month she will get the title of official big sister....