My Little Girl is Growing Up

It always amazes me how certain milestones make your children seem so much bigger in such a short time. Changing from a crib to a big kid bed is always one of these milestones. The below picture is Midge at age 2 in her big girl bed.

Leo age 2 in his big boy bed.

Now today we have Little Miss again age 2 in her big girl bed.

She was so excited. She kept climbing in the bed.

Then she would jump down, and do it all over again.

I worry that she won't sleep well anymore. (This is a kid who I had to wake up this morning after 14 hours of sleep). Tonight she chose to have Ken put her to bed, and I was worried that she wouldn't go to sleep. As soon as he came out I bombarded him with questions, but he said she went right to bed (after a little bit of jumping). We will see how it goes by the time morning comes around.

Little Miss and her Bud

Do you remember watching The Cosby Show and Rudy had the adorable little boy known as Bud? They would do everything together and they were little buddies. Our Little Miss has a Bud as well. Twice a week these two get together to play. A few weeks ago she started saying his name for the first time. It has been so funny to see her refusing to get dressed and then I will tell her Bud is coming over and she will run over and start trying to get her PJs off and get dressed.

The funny thing is that Midge also has a Bud. Coincidentally her Bud is the older brother of Little Miss's Bud.

A Flashback

So my mother has this blue dress that she wore to her oldest sister's wedding reception. When I was a little tike they put me in the dress and snapped a picture of me holding a picture of my mom wearing the dress. So I got the brilliant idea that I would do the same with my kiddo. I never really got around to doing it with Midge, but don't people always say the middle kids get looked over (maybe that is just my sis :). Anyway I decided when we were at my mom's to get the dress out and put it on Little Miss.

At first all she wanted to do was stare at the picture. Pretty cute, but I was going for the three generation theme and it was crucial that she give me a lovely smile, while clearly showing the picture as well.

Notice no lovely smile and an absolute refusal to clearly show the picture. She actually threw it to the ground - ah you precious little booger.

So guess how we got this smile. Midge came running up behind me with a gigantic lollipop and said, "Smile and you can have this!" Look at that grin that little sneak was capable of it the entire time. Now if she had only been holding the picture correctly.

Ah well here is the picture of me in the dress with a lovely smile and clearly holding the picture of my mother in the dress. What a clearly obedient child I was!

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So I have to add a side note here. Midge's dance concert was tonight, and being the truly wonderful mother that I am I dutifully charged the battery for the camera. When we got to the recital I handed the camera to Ken who promptly tried to turn the camera on, but to no avail. When he opened the battery compartment it was empty. The battery was at home in the charger. I want it noted that I did put in effort to record my daughter's dance recital and she was stinking cute and did a great job. Please note that I can attest I know that there are other mother's out there that this has happened to, and I would appreciate hearing from you so that my daughter doesn't think her mother is losing her mind.

Where we have been

I thought it would be fun to do a little comparison of the girls in their first two years. Let me tell you this post took some tricky planning, but I think it is worth it to be able to see the similarities and differences. The first picture is Midge a few hours old, and the one right after it is Little Miss a few days old.

The below picture is Midge on her first birthday, and the one right after it is Little Miss on her first.

The following picture is Midge on her second birthday and the next picture is Little Miss around the same age.

I can see similiarites but at the same time they are both so unique and different to me as well.

Our little Linus

Midge was crazy attached to pacies, Leo had a special blanket (that he liked to sniff - don't ask), but none of our kids have been as attached to a single blanket like Little Miss. She has to have it to sleep, eat, go on errands, cuddle with when sad, watch TV. She would take it into the bath with her if I allowed it. June Banta (my visiting teaching companion gave it to her as a gift when she was only a few weeks old. I don't remember when she came attached, but it is official now. The funny thing is she loves to chew on the satin edges. Recently I had to remove the old edge and attach a new edge, because she had turned the old edging brown. 

Leo and Midge tease her because she will hold it up to her nose and snort into it. I can't explain it, but she only does this when she is tired. So it is usually a clue that she is ready for bed. 

The biggest challenge is getting her to not take it outside. She had a major tantrum because I wouldn't let her take it to the park today. If I would have let her she would have dragged it through the sand, water, and bark chips without a second thought.