As Addie's B-day approaches...

I've been thinking about the things that make me smile in this stage. I know I will miss all these things. Eventually. I have compiled a short list. Feel free to add any antics of a toddler near you to it.

Having a 2 year old is...



answering "ussdat?" 500 or so times per day.

celebrating each milligram of vegetables consumed.

having a 3+ foot diameter circle on your kitchen floor that will never ever be clean (unless said 2yr. old is asleep when you mop).

reaching for your toothbrush and finding it already wet, when you know you haven't used it yet.

recognizing that there is always a song that must be danced to (weather it be commercial jingles, movie background, music boxes, elevator tunes or restaurant lobby ditties).

never putting the vacuum away.

having to empty the tub of duckies and foamy numbers and letters before you can take a shower.

hearing a knock on the door every time you go to the bathroom.


running around in circles with a clean diaper in your hand.

checking the tricycle basket first, every. time. something small goes missing.

reading books and singing songs all day.

making tents with sheets and houses out of cardboard boxes.


laughing at lots of stuff that wasn't funny before you had a two year old.


affection rejection (slap in the face or a simple dodge, you never know how your kisses might be received) OR the sweetest baby-hands-on-each-side-of-your-face-kisses ever given on the face of this earth.