Summer at TWO years old

Here's a little about our adorable little 2-year-old Summer:

She is fiercely attached to her Mommy...and moderately attached to her blanky (blanky needs to come in the car, store, bed, or if she's sad, or hurt, but Mommy has to be with her ALWAYS).

She loves to watch Winnie the Pooh and Curious George the best.  But she also likes Dora, Daniel Tiger, and Strawberry Shortcake.  Almost every time she wakes up she says "watch a movie."  And if anyone else is watching tv...look out.

Her favorite books are Where are you Pooh?, 10 Little Princesses, Three Little Pigs, and David Gets in Trouble.

She loves to play outside, especially with the water in her little pool.  And if it's not warm enough to play in the water outside, she'll play in the bathroom or kitchen sink...probably for hours if I let her. 

She loves taking care of babies.  Pretending to change their diapers, feed them, sing them a lullaby and put them to bed.

At bed time she sits on Mom's knee and I ask her if she wants me to sing her a lullaby or hum and she almost always says "hum"...I'm not sure how this started, I must have hummed it once and then she requested it again and again.

She loves to pay with Ollie (our kitty).  They'll chase each other around, she'll try to pull him into her bath, or throw him at his food.  Today I found her standing in his litter box--yuck.  But her job is to fill up his food and water dish.  It is so cute to see her kneeling beside his bowl with a bucket of food and a scoop.  She is still learning to be gentle...most of the time she doesn't try to pick him up by the neck...well maybe not most of the time-yet.

She loves to talk and sing.  I am amazed at how many words she knows!!  She repeats almost everything I say.  A couple of my favorite lines are:  "what the heck?",  "doing?",  "have fun" (when she leaves someone she makes sure to tell them to have fun), "one minute", "good stuff".  This past week in nursery we were about to have music time but Summer wasn't done her snack and she leaned forward to the music teacher and said "one minute, still eating" it was the cutest.

I like to call Summer my little angel.  She really is such a blessing to our family and we can't wait to see what each year will bring from that magical little girl.