Happy 2nd Birthday Callie!

It was two short years ago that you made us parents, the greatest blessing we’ve ever experienced.  Since then you’ve turned our world upside down and we’ve never looked back! 

In this past year, you’ve grown from our baby to our big girl, and that’s something that you are very proud of.  You now sleep in your big girl bed, in your big girl room.  You aren’t fully potty trained yet, but not far from it, and you get so happy when you use the big girl potty.  You are mommy’s big helper and anything you can assist mommy with, you are all for it.  This includes: cooking, laundry, shopping, buckling up your car seat, carrying groceries, and the list goes on and on.  You’ve also developed a BIG vocabulary- some words we understand, most we don’t.  You’ll repeat yourself over and over until we understand you, and sometimes that’s just us saying “oohhh really?!”  You point out everything to us, just in case we missed it; the bus, train, bug, baby, puppy, etc and if you don’t know what it is you say “YOOK MOMMY!”   You are a daddy’s girl, and I don’t think he minds one bit.  You scream with excitement when you hear him pull up to the house.  Sometimes you go and hide from him so he has to find you, but you don’t stay hidden long, you get so excited and run out before he finds you!You are a great eater, rarely do we come across something you don’t like.  At two years old, you are in the 99th percentile in height and 95th for weight.  You love to go to dance class and talk about it all the time.  We drive down the street listening to music and you tell us “DANCE!”  You get so tickled about it, and it always puts a big smile on all of our faces. 

You have started to like Mommy taking your picture and will even ask to “cheese” for us.  I could take your picture all day long sweet girl, it never gets old for me! Lately you can cop a little attitude towards us, but it’s because of all the changes in your life right now and you just don’t know how to express yourself in the proper way.  But that being said, 90% of the time, you are one of the sweetest, well behaved kids we know. 

You know that soon you’ll be the BIG sister and that baby sister will be coming home to live with us.  You love babies and even got to hold your first baby the other day.  You loved pointing to their facial features, and saying “Baby Night Night.”  You’ve helped me get baby girls room ready and get so excited when something new for the baby comes into the house.  We’ve installed the baby’s car seat in mommy’s car now and you continue you to tell us “baby’s seat” when we get in and out of the car.  We know you’ll be the best big sister to our newest family member, I know I can’t wait to see you in this role! Sweet girl, you are truly a blessing we are thankful for everyday, and I cannot imagine our lives without you now.  We may not know what the next two plus years will bring your way, but we know that you’ll do it with such excitement and enthusiasm it’ll be contagious. We love you big girl, more than words can even say!