Thursday, January 20, 2011

Dear Two Year Old:
1. I am glad that you are potty training your baby dolls.  I am also very glad that you are working on potty training yourself.  Can we work on not reusing the toilet paper that has just been used to wipe your bum to also wipe your nose?  Daddy seems to think that this is gross. 
2. Yelling "THAT THING"  over and over while wildly pointing does not actually help me figure out what you are talking about.
3.  For your own safety, I think it is a little dangerous that one of your first elaborate sentences is "Mariel acts like a baby!"  I think it is really darn funny, but still might be something that you want to forget.  Or at least wait until you are bigger than she is.
4.  A piece of lint or dog hair in the bathtub is not the end of the world.  Please stop crying and shrieking when you see it.  There are much more reasonable phobias to develop, like fear of being sucked down the drain with the bathwater.
5.  You are a great dancer.  I have never seen a child come up with the moves that you do, and I hope you never stop dancing.
6.  The only thing worse than dealing with your crazy, loud, wild, demanding, fickle two year old self is knowing that someday you won't be two anymore.   And I will really miss it.
Love,
Your mommy