No way... Janie is ALMOST TWO!!

Our heads are spinning wondering where the past year has gone.  Weren't we just celebrating Janie's first birthday?  How do we have this singing, talking, inquisitive little kid instead of a little baby!  CrAzy!!

Over the past month it feels like Janie has taken leaps and bounds with communication, which especially highlights how "grown up" she seems.  She asks a lot of simple questions and does a nice job with her responses to things we ask her.  Janie has always kind of had her own way of doing things and already she seems to have a sense of independence.  She likes to be given choices and makes it clear when she disapproves of something, most often with this fake (super annoying) cry. 

Like her older sister, Janie is really into music and books.  It feels like in the past month, the number of songs she can sing independently has quadrupled.  She also loves demonstrating that she knows most of her letters, can sing the alphabet and count past ten (some days twelve, some days she make it to fifteen).  She also knows most of her colors and shapes and started "performing" that after weeks of being silly and intentionally misidentifying the colors in the stripes on her wall and laughing about it. 

There has been some regression with her sleep patterns, we thing from teething pain, but we look forward to getting her back a pattern of sleeping through the night soon.  Janie seems to be an early riser liker her Daddy (and opposite of her Mommy especially when she is up with her at night) but luckily she can entertain her self for up to an hour looking at books in her crib.  She also requests "Mickey Mouse!!" or sometimes Sesame Street and while screen time is monitored in our household, I am not above indulging her in her requests for television!!

One of the best parts about Janie's current developmental stage is her love of sharing hugs.  She requests them all the time!  She has figured out how to use her sweet request to work us over, but seriously, who can deny a hug request... or eight, from this sweety!?!