20 Questions- Wren 2 Years Old

I thought this would be a fun tradition to start!

Wren's answers are written verbatim in blue, followed by my comments in black...

1. What is your favorite color?
-Blue red blue... I guess she couldn't decide.

2. What is your favorite toy?
-Baby... this is definitely true.

3. What is your favorite fruit?
-Pine app (pineapple)... I would have guessed some sort of berry.  I think she said this because we just received a pineapple in our produce delivery bin this week.  It's been sitting on our counter.  She's quite intrigued by it.

4. What is your favorite TV show?
-n/a... she doesn't really watch tv.

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?
-Cheese!... yes, true story.  She always, always, always asks for cheese.

6. What is your favorite outfit?
-Who shirt... she has 2 shirts with owls on them that she calls "who" shirts.  She says she wants to wear her who shirts every day when I ask her what she wants to wear.  Because I only do laundry like once every 10 days or so, she does not get to wear her who shirts nearly as often as she would like.  Fortunately, I can just tell her no, and she picks something else.  But her first response each and every time I ask her to pick an outfit is, "who shirt!"  The girl knows what she wants.  

7. What is your favorite game?
-Hide-and-seek!... definitely her fave right now.

8. What is your favorite snack?
-Cheese... uh-huh.  A true Wisconsin girl at heart!

9. What is your favorite animal?
-Horse stomp stomp... whenever Wren talks about Nash (a pony at Jim & Kathleen's), she always says "Nash stomp stomp" as she acts out Nash stomping.  Always.  Nash makes an appearance in Wren's nightly bedtime stories, and she always stands up in bed to stomp twice, then lays back down.  Every single time.  

10. What is your favorite song?
-Ho Hey... by the Lumineers.  She knows how to pull up YouTube on both the ipad and our iphones and find this video.  She watches it over and over and over, and requests it every time we are in the car.  It is a sweet song, but it gets a little old when you've heard it 47,975 times.  Honestly, that's not much of an exaggeration.

11. What is your favorite book?
-Pete the Cat... this audio book used to be on repeat in our car this past winter, not so much any more.  I would have said her favorite books right now are her Froggy books or the yearly Shutterfly albums I have made.  I asked her these questions while in the car though, so maybe she was in the Pete the Cat mode.

12. Who is your best friend?
-Booty... the cat.  Which I think is odd because Booty wants absolutely nothing to do with Wren.  I think Wren has touched her all of maybe 6 times in her entire life.  She is quite an elusive cat when Wren is around.

13. What is your favorite sport?
-Basketball with Daddy... Chris got Wren a basketball hoop for outside,  The girl sure loves to dunk.

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside?
-Pay! (play)... Wren wants to "pay outside" the minute she wakes up in the morning.  So glad it's finally Spring!

15. What is your favorite drink?
-Wah-tare (water)... that's the only thing she drinks.  She assumes all drinks are water.  

16. What is your favorite holiday?
-Easter... eh, I'm thinking this is because Easter just happened.  Finding chocolate in eggs outside = best holiday EVER for a sweets loving girl that has been cooped up inside all winter.  I'm sure it would be a different story had I asked these questions a week after Halloween or Christmas or probably any holiday for that matter.

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night?
-Baby... 3 babies, actually.  And a horse, a penguin, a monkey, 2 dogs, and numerous other stuffed animals. She's not so much concerned with who is actually in her bed, just as long as there are many animal bodies, she's happy.  She does always ask for 2 babies though (even though she means 3 babies).  Sometimes it's a mad hunt around the house looking for all 3 babies before bedtime. 
  
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
-Eggs... maybe?  I would have said banana or yogurt.

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?
-Eggs... really??  Didn't realized she liked eggs so much...

20. What do you want to be when you grow up?
-Chase Calla... haha, this is because I talk about Calla growing and getting bigger and being able to crawl and walk and run.  Wren is super excited to have Calla chase her.  Like way excited.  She talks about it a lot.

So there ya go, 20 questions answered from a 2-year old's perspective.  Should be interesting to see how the answers change over the years!

These boots are on all the time lately

My crazy 2-year old

Hangin' with her sis

This girl is constantly running.

She has 2 modes... turbo and off.

:)

Wren's 2nd Birthday

Wren turned 2 on April 7th!
Woohoo!
We celebrated the Friday before her birthday with Jim & Kathleen, Matt, Josie & Macy, Joe & Cathy (Josie's parents), and Tammy (Josie's sister).
We threw a fondue party at Jim and Kathleen's!
Wren loves to dip, dip, dip her food, so we thought a fondue party would be perfect for our 2 year old.
She loved it!
I had been asking her days in advance what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday.
Each and every time she said she wanted blue cake.
Blue cake?!
Really?
I refused to make a homemade cake with good, wholesome ingredients, and then taint it with artificial food coloring....
Absolutely was not happening.
So I decided to bake her a BLUEberry cake.
Ha.
Although the decorative frosting looks more purple than blue, it was as close as it was going to get.
In the long run, she didn't care anyway.
:)


Dip, dip, dipping away


Group shot


Birthday girl


My 2 year old!


Wren's "blue" cake
It was actually a triple-lemon blueberry cake
Recipe can be found here

So excited to open presents

Happy birthday!

I love how Macy has her arm around Calla!
...and Calla has a sticker on her knee.

The daddies and their 2-year olds!

On Wren's actual birthday, we celebrated by going to the zoo after breakfast.
It was a beautiful day!  It finally felt like Spring here.
After nap, we spent the afternoon playing in Wren's brand new sandbox.
Chris built her one for her birthday!
She absolutely loves it.
All she wants to do now is "pay outside."
We ate a birthday pizza picnic outside for dinner.
And we went to Ritter's for frozen custard for dessert!


She loves playing with these animals in the sand


So much fun!
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, pay no attention to the dead arborvitae in the background...)


I can't believe my first baby is 2 already!

So, at 2, Wren is so much fun...
She loves to help me bake and cook.
I love to have such a great helper in the kitchen!
She drags a chair out from the dining room into the kitchen and stands at the counter to help me.
She dumps ingredients in, helps me crack eggs, and stirs like a pro already!

She loves playing with her sister.
She wants to hold Calla all the time.
I have actually caught her a few times trying to pick her up... all by herself.
Uh, not good.
It is sweet, though.
She just loves her baby sis so much!

Her favorite game right now is hide-and -seek.
She has learned to count to 10 (sort of) because we play so much.
She loves playing when Chris is home at night.
When she's the one seeking, she always misses 7 when counting.
She shouts "ready not ready not" when she gets to 10, and goes tearing through the house looking for whoever is hiding.
She always looks first in the place that we hid last.
If she's the one hiding, she usually comes running out when you come looking for her.
If she does stay hidden, her giggling is a dead give away as to where she is.
Her favorite spot to hide is under Calla's crib.
I have noticed her playing hide-and-seek with her stuffed animals sometimes, too.
She throws them in a cupboard or something, runs away quickly, and counts (usually only to 4).
I hear "ready not ready not," and then she runs to wherever they are "hiding."
Makes me smile.

I can't wait to see what this next year has in store...
she's already talking about her next birthday.
:)

Calla 3 Months

 

Well, first things first...

Calla's ophthalmologist appointment went great!

The doctor was able to get a good, long look into both of her eyes.

He said everything is looking perfect and he doesn't need to see her back again until September.  

We are so relieved.

Calla is such a happy girl!

At 3 months, she...

...smiles all the time.

...is starting to laugh more and more.

... "talks" a lot.

...sleeps wonderfully at night.

...sneezes every time I turn on the lamp in her room at night (every single time!)

...is rolling over!  

I saw her roll front to back the other day, and today I put her on her back under her play gym, stepped away from a minute, came back and she was on her tummy!

I feel like within this past month, Calla has settled into a schedule.  She's up most mornings between 8-9, ready for a little nap an hour and a half later, up until 1-2, takes a nice looooong nap while Wren naps, and then some days she needs another tiny late afternoon nap to get her through until bedtime.  Baby girl is ready for mommy milk and bed at 8pm sharp!  She is a crab if I don't have the Boppy pillow out and ready to nurse her on the couch at 8.  Most nights she wakes up sometime between 4-7.  I change her diaper and bring her into our room to nurse and sleep until Wren wakes up.  Some days we aren't up until after 9!  :)

It's funny to see her little personality developing already!

Love her so, so much!