Two Years Old

Caroline turned two July 10. We can hardly believe it! She is such a little girl now, with her own personality. We were traveling from OR to CA on the 10th, so these pictures were taken at our hotels: 1st in OR, leaving, and 2nd in CA, where we stayed for the night.


At two:

Caroline is a chatterbox. She calls herself "Mama's Baby". She speaks in phrases, sometimes in short, complete sentences--when the phrase happens to be a sentence. She knows the names of all the "basic" colors, but doesn't know which color is which color. ;)

Speaking of colors, she loves to color! She amuses herself for quite awhile sitting in her high chair coloring with crayons. She gets to use markers at Sunday School--just got moved from Nursery to the 2's class--and that is big stuff!

She is very affectionate, comes up and hugs my leg tight and says, "Mmmm...I love you too!", not in response to anything.

She is still picky with food. Likes blueberries, yogurt, Cheerios and milk, ham, pizza, cheese, crackers, pancakes.

She sleeps with her Birthday Kitty and Birthday Teddy every night, hugging them close.

Nurses morning and night. In the morning she comes into my room and says, "Milky...milky?..." Austin usually gets her out of her crib in the morning, as they still share a room. Sometimes she tells me, "Nurse the baby...", instead of "Milky". Except the baby's hardly a baby... Funny!

Likes to water flowers outside...often ends up watering the sidewalk or patio.

Loves swimming in big pools and playing in our little pool and on the slip 'n slide. Always wants to go outside when anyone else does. She runs off to her room and returns with a sweater, and says, "Got my setsirt!" or with her shoes (which may or may not match), "Got my sooes!"

Loves books, dollies, Lauren's Pet Shop, Pollies, and Barbies. Likes tea set and toy food and dishes.

Sucks her thumb, especially when tired or hungry. Or out of her comfort zone. Often goes to her class at church with her head bowed and thumb in her mouth, acting all bashful. But she's totally fine once we leave! At home she talks about a little girl in her class, maybe her friend? Who can know! But Caroline talks and sings about Tessa. So cute. :)

We went to the Old Spaghetti Factory on Caroline's birthday. She got a candle in her ice cream. And this time she did actually blow it out--not try to eat it!

She's growing up fast!