The Medina Family: Kaitlyn: 32 months old

Boo Bear,

I have been meaning to do an update for you for awhile now. I wanted to update around 30months, but here we are at 32 and still no update! Ugh! Time slips away from me so quickly. Anyway, life at our house has been very chaotic just the same.

You are such a big girl and quite the big helper nowadays! I can’t believe how much of a preschooler you have become in the past eight months. You are putting together your thoughts so well, you are very coordinated and you seem to learn more and more all the time. You have a mind of your own though, and you have been testing us much more in the past couple of months. I have a feeling the terrible three’s are right around the corner, and I must admit, mommy is scared!

You have been talking more for awhile now. May 11^th you were saying “Where are you Daddy?” “Found you Daddy!” Your first five word sentence was shortly after that. You said “Don’t want it Daddy’s Car!” when you wanted to go with Mamaw on May 26^th. Now you just talk all the time. When you wake up in the morning, you give Bubba a huge smile and you tell him “Good Morning Bubba! I love you good boy!” You tell me things all day long; about the toys that you are playing with, crying out for “my baby doll!” when we are leaving and your baby is on the bed, telling me “Mamaw’s girl” when I ask you if you are Daddy’s Girl or Mamaw’s girl. You tell me to wait so that you can get your shoes…and your glasses…when we are heading out. You asked to “start the car” almost all of the time when we get in the car. You love to ask for candy and tell me with your finger up “have just one. Just one okay? Okay!” You tell me “I do it” for almost everything. Daddy told me last night you wanted to make your own peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

You love to cook. You drag your little chairs or “my stool” at home and at Mamaw’s house to help us out in the kitchen. Mamaw really likes having you help her, and you guys even made cupcakes together. You saw her cupcake holder in the garage and got so excited. You took it inside and kept exclaiming “birthday!” After y’all made the cupcakes, you decided they were “my birthday” and didn’t want to share with anyone. ( Aunt Tara’s baby Emma was just born this week and when I told you, you told me “I love birthdays!”) You also like to pretend to cook and dump out all your Tupperware dishes and play food to cook. I see you cooking eggs and corn on your campfire most of the time.

You love to be outdoors and would spend all of your time at the pool or in the park if you could. You run everywhere you want to go and love to go for wagon rides, shoulder rides and zoom around the yard in your Mustang. You also like to ride on your tricycle, although that is mostly indoors. Daddy taught you how to fly a kite this summer and you had so much fun chasing the “balloon” around in the street! You love to go to SeaWorld, “go Elmo,” and ask to “feed the dolphins” before we go every time. Feeding the dolphins after we swim has become a special treat for you and Mamaw.

We put you in swimming classes the first part of February and you are doing so well in them! You are in the Baby and Me II class right now and will be ready to move up to the preschool class in January after you turn three. You love to go down the slide on your belly and run across the blue floatie to jump in the water. Daddy barely makes it to the end of the floatie before you are in the water. You know how to get out of the pool by yourself, you are learning how to float on your back and can go under water for a few seconds. You even are able to scoot down the side of the pool all by yourself! I am so glad that we put you in swimming as you seem to really enjoy it.

You are starting to sing more and sing Happy Birthday, Twinkle Little Star and You Are My Sunshine. Daddy said that you like to sing the theme song from Doc Mcstuffins, too. You are watching more TV shows than I would like, but I guess it’s okay. You watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Doc Mcstuffins, Elmo’s World DVD’s, Toy Story I, II, III, The Muppets and Finding Nemo. You have started to watch more of the Disney Princess Movies, although your favorite movie is Toy Story by far. You love to ask to go to grandma’s house and watch Toy Story over and over and over. Ad nauseum.

One of my favorite thing about being a mommy to two kiddos is your interaction with Nathan. Bubba is finally able to play with you and you love to spend time with your brother. You always ask about him when he isn’t with you and when he is around, you are such a big helper in caring for him. You hear him when he cries and you tell Mommy and bring Bubba his pacifier. You like to give him hugs and kisses, sometimes a little bit too harshly, but you are well intended. Just this past month, you have started trying to play “get you!” with Nathan. When he crawls after you, you shriek and run away screaming “get you bubba!” Nathan has the biggest smile crawling after you! Of course, you are also having to learn to share with Nathan and have been caught several times taking his toys from him, but that is a part of having a sibling and you will both have to learn to play together nicely.

The next biggest thing that we need to work on with you is using the big girl potty. Just before Nathan was born, you were so interested in the potty. You liked to watch us go to the potty, see what was in it, flush it, sit on it. Now you want nothing to do with it. In July when you were two and a half, we tried to get you to wear some panties and use the potty without any luck. You screamed and cried and wouldn’t even let us put your underwear on you. You even had picked out some Elmo panties from Target, but no luck! I am planning to try again with you very soon; I am ready for you to be a big girl with your underwear at least!

Other cute tid-bits:

-Whenever you are misbehaving, you tell me “gotta listen, gotta listen mommy!” At least you are hearing me…

-You love to have your babies play with Nathan’s toys and highchair. You give them bottles and pacifiers and push them around in their stroller for walks. You even breastfeed your babies and try to pump with mommy’s breast pump.

-You like going to the duck pond at Heritage Park with Mommy and to Chick-fil-a to play in the toddler play area. When we drive by, you point out “CHICKFILA” and you ask to go when we are at home.

-Uncle Jonathan is amazing to you! He spoils you rotten and you ask for him frequently. You call him “Uncle Jon” or “Jonan.” He always seems to have time to be silly with you, help you water the flowers or take you for a swim in the hot tub.

-You like to help feed Nathan and will get his food from the pantry for Gam Gam, Mamaw or Mommy when we are feeding him.

-You are able to get into the refrigerator to snack on. I have the jello, cheese, milk and juice containers down where you can get them now with your stool.

-You sleep with mommy and daddy nowadays. Daddy loves to put you to sleep and this is your special time with him at the end of the day.

-You have weekly sleepovers at Mamaw’s house and will ask to “stay Mamaw’s house” every Friday night. Sometimes Saturday nights, too, and you certainly don’t wanna come home with daddy and I come Sunday night. I was (still am) a Grandma’s girl, too.
-You are becoming more bossy and tell Kalli "No Kalli!" while you shake your finger at her. You also tell Bubba "No Sir!" when he is getting into things he shouldn't be (like the wine bottles.)

We love you so much, Katie, and you are mommy’s little ray of sunshine. No matter how bad a day I have or how much you don’t listen, I will always love you more than life itself. I am so proud to be your mommy.

Love,

Mommy