My Cuddle Monkey

This morning I came back home after dropping Belle and Daddy off to get my work things. Gaga said you'd been calling for me in your sleep. So I go in and you are still asleep but I can't help but pick you up and cuddle you in the rocking chair. You snuggle up into my arms, eyes closed. We sit there for awhile and then I decided what the heck! I move you into my bed and lay down cuddled up with you for awhile. I knew you would wake soon but I wanted to cuddle you as long as I could.

All too soon you started to wake but that was sweet too... watching your eyes flutter open and then you smile at me. You then looked around as if to say "Whoa?! How'd I get in here!?" :) And then in your true form you start to smile and giggle and want tickles and try and get into mischief. We played and wrestled in the bed for awhile before I finally had to go to work.

I was worried that you'd be upset when I left and you obviously didn't want me to go but you didn't cry you asked for a "keees" (kiss), and a "hug" and gave me a smile and a sweet "bye bye."

I love these mornings with you my sweet. You're such a treasure. Just thinking of you makes me smile.

And tonight you were so sleepy because you refused to nap today... you grabbed your blanket and came staggering towards me holding it up and saying "baby?" which is what you say when you want to be picked up and cuddled to sleep. It was so pitiful and cute! So I pick you up and you instantly lay your head on my shoulder. Daddy gave you bunny and we went and cuddled in the rocking chair in your room. Every night when I get you to sleep I talk to you for a few minutes before getting down to business. I told you how much I love you and what a sweet girl you are. I gave you lots and lots of kisses, and sniffed in your good baby smell from you hair like I always do. But before the 2nd song on the lullaby CD was over you were fast asleep. I admit I held you longer then I needed too but how can ya blame me... you're so squishy!

I love you Moya.

2 Year Checkup

Moya had her 2 year check up today. She weighs 29.3 pounds, 75 percential. She is 34 1/4 inchs tall (50-75 percential). Healthy girl! :) And no shots today.

Doctor was very happy with her walking progress as well.

Playing with Sissy

This is insanely cute. Belle and Moya love to play together. Yes most the time Moya wants to color and Belle is playing with her big girl toys but when they get to playing....ooooooh my goodness! :) Cuteness overload!

2 Years - Birthday Letter

Happy Birthday My Lovely Momo!

My what a year this has been for you! You have grown so much and changed so much but yet you are still so much my little baby.

The first thing that comes to mind this year has been that you now walk! I can't tell you how happy I am and how proud of you I am. I must admit now how worried I was when the doctor first started talking about how you had weak thigh muscles and ankles. My mind started to go to worst case scenarios. I had nightmares of you in a wheelchair. And while I knew logically that you would be fine and that these were just mommy fears I couldn't help but worry anyway. You're my baby... my perfect little angel and I didn't want you to be limited by anything.

So you started physical therapy and oh my how wonderful you have done! Even your therapist, Carrie, has been amazed by your progress. I was just the other day looking at a video of you in October and how you were still struggling then to walk, and now? Now you just run everywhere! You have worked so very hard and I can just see how proud of yourself you are. You have shown me that you are going to be one of those people who when they reach an obstacle in their life they give it all they got and concur it in no time. You are such a funny, happy, loving child... but you are also a fighter. You are willful and determined. And I couldn't be happier about that.

You are also smart as can be! You talk so well and sing ALL the time! It is so precious. Your vioce just melts my heart to the core. You know your ABCs, even by sight. You can count 10 with no help and almost to 20 with no help!

Your singing should be specially talked about. You know all the words to so many songs it really is very impressive. Sometimes when I'm trying to rock you to sleep you'll start to sing and have this little smile behind your pacifier (yes you sing with it in your mouth) and it'll just get me laughing. And you know what you're doing too! You love to make people laugh. So you'll sing and I'll start laughing, then you start laughing, then we both will sing and laugh. I can't even pretend to say it upsets me that you do it to stall from sleeping, because I just love it.

Your sense of humor is just hilarious. I think you'll love the 3 Stooges when you are older. You just seem to like slap stick. But you love to get people laughing. I think this has to be one of the qualities about you I love the most... although I love everything about you. But you are such a sweet heart. So genuinely loving and want to make people smile. How can that not be a favorite quality? :) Whenever we get home from work you run to the gate at the top of the stairs and yell "DADDY!!! MOMMMYYYY!!!" Big grin on your face and stompin your feet and giggling and smiling. We come up and you will take turns running to us saying our names. You love to play games that get giggles too. You will shut the door to your room and then knock and say "Who is it?" And then open the door and say "Hello!" Or you'll hold your arm up to our mouths and we are supposed to play bite onto your shirt and grrrr like a puppy.

You are also such a stinker! :) So defiant and willful. But I love that too. You will look me in the eye and then run off and do something you know you aren't supposed too... like color on the walls! :)

I think if I had to pick something about you that really makes me happy however it is the cuddles. You will ask for hugs and kisses and just back up into my lap with a book to read and cuddle. You are very very lovey. And that's a good thing cause if you didn't like to cuddle I'd probably annoy you a lot.

Anyway, at 2 years old you are already an amazing little girl who has won my heart completely. You are my best friend. I love you so much.

Happy birtday my love.

Sonic

Belle loves Sonic and Moya has become a fan thanks to her big sissy. :) She calls him "Soic" which sounds a lot like "suck." But she LOVES Sonic and has coveted all of Belle's toys. For Christmas Gaga got her her own plush Sonic which she does love, but she still really really wants to play with Belle's plastic action figure Sonic toys. The problem is that they are very poorly made toys. They break into small pieces very easily. Belle has a hard time not breaking them with many of them now being more super glue then plastic. So we just can't let Moya play with them.

Well last night Belle left all of them in the toy basket in the bathroom. I took Moya in to take her bath and she went right to them yelling 'sonic!' and picked them up and sat down to play with them. I just couldn't say no. I let her play with a few of them in the bath... HIGHLY supervised of course. Oh my goodness she was in heaven! She would splash them in the water yelling "SONIC!!" or she would hold two up up and have them dance around as she sung the Sesame street song. She would kiss them and giggle with them and every few minutes look at me and say "tank ooo!" (thank you) It was absolutely precious! I told her not to tell Belle that it was our secret. :) I don't know if she knew she was getting away with something naughty or not but she definitely knew it was a treat. :) And none of them got broken or eaten. :)

4 Molars at Once!!

The other night I was brushing Moya's teeth after bath and she flinched and said "ouch!" I took her to the changing table to get her dressed and looked in her mouth and sure enough... not 1, not 2, but all 4 of her molars are coming in! All in various states of breaking through but all visible. Bless her little heart that has got to hurt! No wonder she hasn't been sleeping well and has been a little bit of a grump during the day recently.

Needless to say I broke out the oragel and have the motrin on standby.

On the plus side at least after these come in she'll be done until she's a big kid. :)

Santa 2010

Took the girls to see Santa. So sweet seeing them both sitting there. Moya wore a dress that use to belong to Belle. I thought that would be special. She wasn't freaked out by Santa just not sure what was going on. :)