Hellobee

Juliet is two!

This photo captures Juliet perfectly at this age; vibrant, joyful, and full of mischief

How can that be???  Where did my baby go????  They say time moves faster after your first and two years have truly flown by. Before my eyes my little bitty, who struggled with failure to thrive, is now an active, playful, non-stop eating toddler and soon she is going to be a big sister!!!

Much like with Drake the night before Juliet’s birthday I took a picture before bed.  I can’t do sleeping photos with Juliet since she sleeps in the dark without a night light.

The last photo of my 23 month old baby

In the morning she was greeted with her balloons.  I changed her into her birthday dress and took some additional photos.

Sadly Juliet wasn’t feeling well on her birthday, as well as the fact it was a dreary rainy day, so we didn’t get out to do anything really fun or special on her day. The previous day I had taken the kids to a local lavender farm to explore and take some photos, but it didn’t go so well. A day or so after Juliet’s birthday we met up with some friends at the mall to play and ride the carousel, and I learned Juliet is terrified of riding the carousel alone so that didn’t go as well as expected either.

Juliet apparently hates lavender

Though her birthday wasn’t as perfect as I had hoped, the one thing I knew that would make Juliet’s day perfect for her was cake.  And boy was I right.  Before the night was over she was covered in cake and she ended her night with a bath, another favorite activity for sure.

Because Juliet is still too young for interview questions, I thought I’d sum up a little about her favorites right now as a new 2 year old:

Favorite Toy: Books, puzzles, cars, and anything related to Elmo

Favorite Show: Sesame Street though she hates the Abby’s Flying Fairy School part

Favorite Food: Really any but she loves her bottles, yogurt, applesauce, any fruit, veggies especially zucchini and corn, breads, crackers, etc.

Favorite Things to Do: Play outside, swing on the swings, story time at the library, playing with mommy’s phone, jumping off of things

Favorite Songs: Old McDonald

Favorite Book: Anything Elmo, The Perfect Hug, The Fish with the Deep Sea Smile

Favorite Animal: Elephants

Favorite Places: Library for story time, the backyard and walking around the neighborhood, the farm

Dislikes: Sharing, not being able to walk everywhere on her own, things that don’t belong in her bed in her bed

Words: Mama, Dada, Gugu (Drake), shoes, hot, shows, phone, fish, moo, woof, cat, meow, vroom, ball, Baba, Papa (pacifier), Pop Pop, bow, bye bye (maybe more as we are increasing speech weekly it seems thanks to speech therapy)

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What an incredible year two has been in both growth and change as our baby changed into a toddler. We can’t wait to see what two brings us in the form of being a big sister and starting the beginning stages of potty training and getting ready for school.