Terrifically Two

ter·rif·ic
1. extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
2. extremely good; wonderful: a terrific vacation.
3. causing terror; terrifying.

She is funny. She is endearing. She is fearless, she is at times incredibly stubborn.

Some of our favorite things she is saying right now:

Uff-dah!

Muddle Puddle ( Mud Puddle )

" This is fun Mom! "

" I want you, Mommy/Dad. "

" I need Mommy/Daddy. "

" Please, snuggle me. "

" Please pick you a flower."

"Hey, Chelle, look at this."

She escapes from her crib in absolute silence and hides where I cannot find her.

She gives worlds best kisses. Grabs you with both hands with a smack right on the lips that lasts for a good 10 seconds. Her uncles are all saying that they hope their future wives kiss like her someday. I don't know, that's a lot to live up to.

She adores her Daddy. The feeling is extremely mutual. When she fell down and scraped both knees after church on Sunday and they were both bleeding and she was crying, even after we kissed them repeatedly " but I need a band aid " she wailed as we put her in car. You should have seen her Daddy. He kept telling her " Your fine. Your tough. See, they're all better now," as he pulled into the nearest drug store for you know what's.

Her favorite thing to do right now, is carry around water balloons. Even though she cries every time they break.

We are having conversations about everything. She is expressing herself so well. It's amazing. She's like a miniature adult. All day long she has been playing with her " babies... " She pretends everything now. She'll say to me. " My babies are going night-night. Close your eyes babies. Have nice dreams babies. " I ask her how her babies are doing. " They have tummy aches. I need to make a bottle of warm milk for them." A little late she tells me. " I kissed them. Now my babies are all better, Mommy!"

If we ask her "are you a big girl?" she says, " no, my a baby."

If we ask her " are you a baby? " she says, " no my a big durl (girl)."

The sparkle in her eye seems to grow a little bit brighter every day.

Annabelle Lucy that I love, Mommy thinks that a grumpy day with you is better than two thousand non-grumpy days without you.