Eden Amelia is TWO Years Old!

Can you guys believe it's been TWO YEARS since this happened?  

Believe it or not, it's true!  Last Tuesday, February 23, Eden turned two!  

I'm really having a difficult time finding the words to describe our girl.  She's spunky and full of personality.  She's bright and loves to talk, sing, dance, and go, go, go.  She is developing a great imagination and loves to play.  Her favorite activities right now are helping Mommy and Daddy in the kitchen, playing in the sink, taking bubble baths, coloring, singing, dancing, jumping, marching, bouncing, climbing the stairs and generally doing everything herself, and watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Little Einsteins when Mommy needs a rest. She hates getting her diaper changed and going to sleep.

She can count to 10 (and sometimes all the way up to 14) only skipping a few numbers or needing some prompting every now and then.  She knows most of her colors most of the time.  She knows a lot of her shapes.  She loves to sing and has learned the words to most of her songs.  Her vocabulary is insane and she cracks us up with some of the things she says, especially when she is repeating us.  I am impressed with how well she listens and am reminded constantly how consistency is important because she is paying attention…it just takes a while for things to sink in sometimes.  One of my favorites right now is how she started singing a little song I made up forever ago trying to remind her to be patient and wait, wait, wait.  She just randomly sang it the other day and it took me a second to figure out what she was saying.  When I figured it out, I was like, "Wow!"  She isn't able to say the "k" or "hard c" sound making some words pretty interesting.  My current favorite is "shark" sounding exactly like "shart." LOL

About a month before her birthday, Eden had a doctor's appointment to clear her for eye surgery.  Her growth measurements at that time were a weight of 24 3/4 pounds and a length of 32 1/2 inches.  I don't know where that puts her on the growth charts but I think she's pretty average in height and weight.  It's crazy to think she's only gained 3 pounds since her first birthday but you can really tell how much she's leaned out when you look at pictures even as recent as September.  

Anyways, I'll spare you any more words and leave you with some of my favorite pictures of the birthday girl!

Eden loves to sing "Happy to you" (as she calls it) and has really enjoyed singing it multiple times this week.  I have an adorable video of her singing along on her birthday but it won't load. I'll try again later!