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We paid a visit to our pediatrician today, and Iris clocked in at 33 lbs. and 36 inches tall. She is in the 95th percentile for both height and weight. The doc also encouraged me to start toilet training…he is the camp that all kids should be toilet trained before 2, which is highly debatable. And so I’m going to give it a shot. If it doesn’t work out so well, I’ll try not to stress out about it too much. She does look cute sitting on the potty… There’s something about turning two…Iris seems to have become a mini-adult in the last few weeks. - Iris will hand me a boogy and say “yucky booger!”
- She can sing all of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” with me at bedtime (the only time she will do it!) Today we had our first winter snow (the last one in October doesn’t really count in my mind). We went out and played in our winter gear… First word (Apr 6, 2011): Bubble 18 months: 17 words 19 months : 11 words 21 months: 24 words 22 months: 29 words Two word phrases: bye-bye bubbles/raba, mama shoes, love you mama, nite-nite georgia/alli, 23 months: 90 words + two words: juice box, apple juice, i do, mama kiss, all done, green beans, daddy fart, all clean, high chair, happy birthday, fist bump, multiple words: “hi five raba/papo/daddy/mama”, mac n’ cheese, How quickly can two years go by?? Iris turns two today (to be exact, at 4:32 pm) and the last two years have been filled with lots of joy. Iris was the BEST baby – she slept well, ate well, and never really complained too much. Now, she is a full-fledged toddler, complete with tantrums but also equipped with the brain-power to learn new words and things everyday. It is so amazing to watch her grow! Language: Iris’ language skills have taken a leap and the phrase “word explosion” now applies. I have been keeping track of all the new words she has learned since her first word at 15 months, and the last month she has learned 200% more words than the previous month (and more since I stopped counting after awhile). She is saying two-word phrases and a few three-word phrases. The funniest two-word phrase is “Daddy FART!” after Mike let out a particularly loud toot the other day. I’ll put up another post about this in a bit… Food: Iris is still eating well, but she is getting a bit pickier these days. She still won’t eat anything red (red veggies, red sauce, but she will eat red fruit). Nowadays, she has become more vegetarian than anything else. She doesn’t want chicken or beef and prefers veggies, fruits, and carbs. Physical development: Iris is due for her 2 year check up next week, so we will see her official weight and height soon. I am estimating that she is about 33 lbs at this point. She is usually the tallest two year old during a playgroup. She hasn’t tried climbing out of the crib again, so her climbing skills aren’t getting any better, but she does love JUMPING. I’d like to get a trampoline for her, but space is limited so I’m going to save the jumping exercises to our gym classes and on our bed (with supervision). Idiosyncrasies: We had a big party after I told myself that it would be low-key…but I went and did it again. We had family, friends, and 15 kids! It was pretty chaotic, but Iris had a BLAST and was SO excited to see all her friends, open gifts, and eat ice-cream cake and cupcakes! Iris loves drawing…especially on windows! I noticed lately that she talks to herself and says “Hmm” while putting her hands to her face like Mark’s Magical Drawings on Yo Gabba Gabba. And here she is with a birthday gift she got recently…I think all toys that make noise should be banned. Happy new year to everyone! Our holidays were pretty uneventful…no trips, no crazy excursions, no wild new year’s party for us! We did put up our xmas tree and we lit our hanukkah candles every night. Now, Iris thinks “hanukkah” means getting gelt (chocolate coins), so she goes around begging for hanukkah right into January! For new year’s eve, we partook in an early family dinner at a local mexican restaurant with other families with young ones. There was a clown who was making balloon figures and Iris was terrified! Then Mike fell asleep at 9pm while I watched all of Khourtney and Khloe Take Miami Season 2 until 1am LOL. No new year’s resolutions for me…taking one day at a time and making small goals as the year goes by. I just want our family to be healthy and happy. We are gearing up for Iris’ birthday party next Saturday. The theme will be Sesame Street/Yo Gabba Gabba. She is going to be SOOOO excited when she sees the decor! All her favorite friends from the Little Gym and our mom’s group will be there. Oh, and now that she knows what gift-wrapped boxes mean, it’s exciting for me to give her gifts now… I can’t believe how fast 2 years went by even though some parts of those two years went by SOOOoooo slowly. For example, right around this time two years ago, I was (im)patiently waiting for Iris to arrive. Little did I know that she wanted to be a whole week late! And we had to force her out! Evicted! And now, here she is, a cute toddler who gets smarter and more brilliant everyday (said like a true mother): Iris and I went to visit the local library the other day, and instead of reading any books all she wanted to do was play with the puzzles. One of them had a clock on it and every time she took it out of the puzzle she would say VERY loudly (in the VERY quiet library): COCK! COCK! cock, cock, cock… And I’d have to quickly say, YES, it IS a CLOCK! just to shut her up and make sure everyone knew what she meant. The librarian in the children’s section was very obese (think quadruple chins). She mosey-ed her way over like a cow and sat at the kiddie table next to Iris, where a quarter of her left butt cheek barely grabbed hold of the child-sized chair. Then two little girls came over and wanted to work with the puzzles as well. Iris had long forgotten about a puzzle with fruit pieces on it, but when she saw one of the girls take the puzzle she screamed and started crying, face turning red. Iris has BIG issues with sharing…I’ve been trying to teach her that sharing toys is no big deal. I immediately picked her up and moved to the next room and kept repeating, THESE ARE NOT YOUR PUZZLES. YOU HAVE TO SHARE THEM. As soon as her tears started to subside I went back and explained to her that the other girl was going to do the puzzle and then give it back…then when Iris got the puzzle back she worked with the puzzle herself. When Iris was done, I told her to give the puzzle back to the girl so she can SHARE the puzzle. Iris held onto the puzzle tighter. I gave her the evil eye. She gave me the This-Is-My-Puzzle-and-I’m-not-sharing look. *sigh* At least she stopped crying. In the past, I had to leave whereever I was because her crying tantrums would not stop despite talking to her. So at least we are making progress! [Iris and Jane are watching Yo Gabba Gabba together and a slow sweet song about rainbows comes on...] Jane: Can we skip this part? Merry xmas and happy new year to all! Funny how some things don’t change…here’s Iris and Mike xmas 2010: And here they are xmas 2011 (notice same pose and Iris in protest of picture): Iris and I Iris was happy to get her new socks and her brand new tent!
Hanukkah for the Jaffin/Unger/David family came early this year due to scheduling…so Jane + Georgia + Iris got their Hanukkah gifts ahead of time. Aunt Amy hosted and provided the bagels and latkes…then it was a wrapping paper frenzy… First Iris got a Yo Gabba Gabba keytar from Kenny and Judith…as she was opening it, she kept getting too excited about it and hugging mommy while opening it! Too cute! Then, she got a Rockin’ Elmo from us…which she loved as well! She immediately wanted to put on the plush robe from Raba and didn’t want to take it off…she looked like a little boxer in training lol. Aunt Amy gave Iris a “Good night Moon” game and a puzzle! It was pretty cool to see that she understood how to play the game right away! The best gift of all was the simplest…Alli/Seth/the Twins got Iris a doll and then a magnet set that she played with for a good half hour! She was definitely obsessed with the magnets! And here’s a group shot of all of us… Thank you everyone for the GREAT gifts! Iris will definitely enjoy them! |
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