Gracie's sitting up!

Sort of.

Sadie turns 2

Sadie on her second birthday.

I know this is a bit late. It's mid-March and Sadie turned 2 at the beginning of February. However... her stats: 35.5 inches tall, 28.4 pounds and a head circumference of 49 cm. She's in the 90th percentile for height and the 70th percentile for weight. I'm not sure where she gets her height. Some say that if you double a child's height at age 2, that's how tall they'll be when they stop growing. That puts her at 71 inches or 5 foot 11. I'm a little skeptical, but I bet she'll be taller than I am (5' 6").
She just started potty training about 4 days ago and is doing very well with a few successes already. So proud... And so excited to not have to buy diapers for two members of our family.
She still has some trouble at the dinner table. She just won't eat sometimes. But the doctor says to provide healthy options and if she doesn't eat, she just doesn't eat. "Don't be a short-order cook," she said. And another article I read in the paper said that my job is to make sure she gets a wide variety of healthy food and that's it! The rest is up to her. I've never heard it put that way. It takes a lot of pressure off. She almost always finishes her vegetables. So I guess she'll eat the rest if she's hungry.
Otherwise, she's a healthy, happy girl and is actually starting to take an interest in Gracie or "Gracie Olivia" as she likes to call her.
I keep hearing from her daycare teachers that her pronunciation of words is really great. We still have to ask her "what did you say?" a lot. Most of the time she answers "thank you" or "please" thinking I've asked "what do you say?"
She's going through a mommy phase right now. It's kind of nice, but I'm fully aware that the daddy phase could be just around the corner. I guess I'll just hold on tight to Gracie Olivia then.