Almost 3?!

Wow, 1 week before Thanksgiving and 2 months from today you will turn 3. Simply amazing to me! I was reading a blog earlier about a baby born less than a pound at almost 26 weeks and my heart just aches for that family. Somehow later I began reading the document I had sent to Great Grandma with what i had written from the time I found out I was pg until shortly before you were here. Wow, what a rush of emotions I have going through me right now. I remember every emotion I wrote about like it was yesterday and every thought I had like I just thought it a few minutes ago. And now look at you, I wondered what you would look like - - you are my mini me and I completely love it. When people tell me how much you look like me they have NO idea how elated I feel about that. I wondered what your voice would sound like, its the cutest little voice I have ever heard. I wondered what your personality would be like. You are absolutely hilarious~ have an awesome sense of humor, a kind heart, and are gentle to animals which I think says a lot about your character. You are sassy and stubborn, which is a given bc you fought hard to live so when you are, I think about that (and sometimes of course I think grrr, ha! Then I say you are 2 and I need to wear my patience hat!~bc your speech is so good and you "get", I think, more things than an average almost 3 yr old sometimes I have to remind myself that you are so young).

What you are up to that's pretty recent:

Your love for Spiderman is pretty much your life right now! You say you are Spiderman and wear Max's collar like its a belt and "shoot webs" with an empty spaghetti box on your arm. FUNNY! You want to have a Spiderman birthday party. You want him to come to your party. (I'm not sure we can make this happen - its pricey to have Spidey come, but we will sure try!)

You sing songs and do the motions. Your favorite is a pizza song we made up. When your parent educator came over tonight we sang it and you showed her the motions. Melts my heart every time I see you do it. SO cute!

When I read you books you sort of mumble under your breath like you're reading the book with me.

You are beginning to understand the spirit of giving. Your class adopted a little girl that does not have toys and we bought her some toothbrushes, I tried to explain why we did that and that some kids don't have a lot of toys and you are so lucky to have tons of them. I plan to have you pass out candy to the residents at Mommy's work to instill the importance of making people happy. I think that is why I have such a rewarding job today. My love for senior citizens began when I was very long bc Mimi used to take me weekly to the nursing home and those oldies were so very happy when I would come. You are beginning to understand happiness. At school when you go potty you tell Misty that I will be so happy :) Speaking of going potty, you still are not interested in going at home at all. I have a feeling it will sometime after your birthday but ? Who knows, whenever you are ready, you're ready. I certainly don't want to pressure you or make you feel stressed about it.

You got sick before Halloween. Poor thing, the week before you had periorbital cellulitis, luckily caught early so left early with eye drops & augmentin. Then you got the flu :( The good news is that by Halloween you were almost back to normal. 10 min into Trick or Treating you wanted to go home but after a little costume altering, Spiderman minus his mask, plus a winter hat, was ready to rock it out...got a whole pumpkin full of candy! You are allowed to eat 1 piece every night and still dump it out several times daily to "check it out" as you say. You are a candy-a-holic!!!

You are very observative. I can't talk on the phone without you repeating things in my conversation, you are listtening even when I think for sure you're not! Its SO funny!

As always, you are a blessing and are such a blast and I love you to pieces!!!