Guess Who's Two??

Our sweet little Brielle will be two tomorrow! I will be at work until late so we had an early birthday party for her. I'm so, so grateful for this crazy little munchkin. Somedays, she is SO darn stubborn but then two minutes later she does something adorable and all is forgiven. 

     Brielle has every person in our house wrapped around her little finger (her Momma most of all). She loves to get in the "bub" (tub),  loves yogurt and string cheese (somedays I feel that's all she ever eats), she loves oranges (sucking the juice out of them and spitting the rest out). She is a great little signer and has always been very clear (even as a new babe) on communicating what she needs and especially what she wants. She is not one to compromise- if she says she doesn't want something she is pretty much never going to want it. And if she wants something, it is going to take a whole lot of distraction techniques to try and get her little brain on something else. 

     We switched her into a big girl bed about a month ago because she decided to be my first child to climb out of her crib. (No idea how my other two never did they are such big climbers). The first few days of her in her bed were amazing. We would put her to bed and be surprised that she would stay there. We kept thinking it was way too easy of a transition. After a few nights she started figuring out she could get out and it was a little trickier but she still did pretty good. As long as I keep bringing her books she eventually starts reading one and I will hear her just gabbing, gabbing, until she eventually goes to sleep. I love to her her little jabber, jabber. 

     I never knew how Mom's did it when they had kids that followed them around all day and wanted to be held and entertained every minute. I even may have thought it was because of parenting but man, did I learn with Brielle. She is my constant shadow. I love, love, love that I am the center of her universe, but occasionally it is exhausting. I have to have strategies to sneak in a bath and a meal here and there without my little tag along trying to climb in and eat all my food ;). 

      She has started getting into the habit of climbing in bed with me in the morning and cuddling and oh my goodness do I love it! The other day I had to be up early so I wasn't in bed when she came to cuddle. She came in and sat with me in the bathroom for a few and then went in to cuddle with Jeff. We sure adore our Brielle and I can't even begin to imagine life without her.