ACCORDING TO AJ

Potty training isn't quite going according to plan these days.  You've now decided that every article of clothing must be off when using the toilet.  Not even your socks can be on.  And also not according to plan, you now make me track my potty use with stickers as well.  Instead of posting my stickers on your calendar, you  put them on the dog food container.  I wonder if that's what all those charities had in mind when they sent me all those unwanted free address labels.   

TYPE A

With the way you're into strict order, perfection, and routines these days, I wonder if it's just you being a two-year old, or you being a future Type A personality.  Look what you meticulously made...

Not just one meticulously tall tower.  Three meticulously tall towers.  Over-achieving Type A personality?  Possibly.  Proud parents?  Definitely. 

15 MINUTES

Look who won a photo contest for Katelyn & Co!  You're right, you don't look two here.  You look a little young in this photo.  I submitted a picture from your one-year old photo session.  Not that you aren't cute now, you just looked ridiculously cute wearing their hat in this photo.  And I was right.  It got us a whopping $10 gift card, for winning the contest.  That was enough to buy half a hat in a larger size for you, not including shipping and handling. 

POTTY TRAINING

And so it starts...potty training.  Although we do have to thank Julie, your babysitter.  Alison's using pull-ups at Julie's?  We better buy pull-ups too.  Alison gets put on the toilet immediately after waking up at Julie's?  We better start that too.  Alison gets asked every 90 minutes if she has to go potty at Julie's?  We better do that as well.  Alison has a calendar with stickers to chart her progress at Julie's?  Let's go buy a calendar and stickers too then.  Imitation is the best form of flattery, right?  OK, in our case it's a matter of convenience.  But I'm not ashamed to admit it. 

PERKS

Your dad and I are enjoying all these kiddie birthday parties, like your cousin Saiyan's 2nd one.  With you not quite being big enough to handle inflatables on your own, we have no choice but to "accompany" you on them.  Yet one more perk of procreation. 

TERRIBLE TWO'S

These days you're very into order.  Things have to be done a particular way or you're not happy.  In fact, you're not just unhappy, you're downright terrible-two unhappy.  There is a difference. 

For example, when I once drove your dad's car you become hysterically upset.  Telling me that it's daddy's car and that it's not mine.  You yelled at the top of your lungs to drive mommy's car, not daddy's car.  We spent an entire miserable drive to the grocery store with you wailing and crying over this situation.  Needless to say, I haven't driven your dad's car with you in it since then.

OOPS

You inadvertently got your first hair cut, thanks to your daycare buddy Samantha.  While Julie was out of the room listening to Samantha say,"Cuh heer" repeately, Julie soon realized "Cuh heer" actually meant "cut hair," not "come here."  Oops.