zara. two year old update.

this girl. I cannot believe I am saying this after some of the rough times we have had- but she is a pretty happy toddler. Of course, they are some little tantrums, especially after we get home from work/daycare, but it passes. She just needs to reconnect. I am really proud of both of us. She still isn't sleeping through the night so that's not great, but I look forward to someday! Zara loves to help clean and take care of me (example- bringing me a blanket). she talks so much (mostly in her toddler language, which I know most of). She is obsessed with her little kitchen, which she brings me and her papa pretend food and drink from. The only color she knows is 'yellow', so she recognizes it and then calls all of the other colors yellow as well.
Z LOVES the music in Robin Hood and will dance to it for so long. Sometimes she wants to put the DVD in just so we can listen to the music that plays with the main menu. We also have a little place in the movie menu loop where a little puppet comes out of a log and we both scream "ahh!"
I call the cat by clicking, so sometimes Zara does the same thing to me, haha.
She calls Mickey Mouse 'haha' because she thinks he is a monkey and monkeys say "hoo hoo haa haa". She usually names animals by the sound they make.
Z calls sweeping "so so". & it is so adorable.
I am really loving that I can communicate with Zara more now, that she understands and is sometimes ok with the explanation. Of course, sometimes I put her milk in the wrong cup or don't bring her the right stuffed animal, but it has been some excellent progress with reasoning.
Her favorite thing to do is bring me blankets, stuffed animals, a paci and milk, push my head on a pillow, say "night night", kiss me and then close the door. love it.

She is still in her size 5 diapers, 2t clothing & still in the upper percentiles for height & weight. Thankfully, no well visits for another year!

I just love all the cute things she does, the funny looks she gives me, laughing at the same thing at the same time with her, her hilarious eye rolls, how she ignores me to be funny. We have a pretty good one here.

This is a problem, but I think she is almost over it::