{"id":313,"date":"2008-07-15T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-07-16T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:02:04","slug":"lainey-our-terrific-two-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/313","title":{"rendered":"Lainey, our terrific two year old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3117\/2672124072_89125dd64f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TWO hairbows!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re still struggling with &#8220;Miss Grabby Hands&#8221; &#8211; as we like to call her &#8211; snatching them out of her hair in the blink of an eye.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done a &#8220;what Lainey can do now&#8221; kind of post.\u00c2\u00a0 And, since we now have an official two year old in the house, I figured this would be a good time.\u00c2\u00a0 At her 2nd well check-up, here are her stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>weight: 27.9 lbs. 65th percentile,\u00c2\u00a0American chart; 95th percentile,\u00c2\u00a0Chinese chart (about 1lb. less than Abbey at 2yrs.)<\/li>\n<li>height:\u00c2\u00a0 34.5 &#8221; 70th percentile,\u00c2\u00a0American chart; 85th percentile,\u00c2\u00a0Chinese chart (same height as Marley at 2yrs.)<\/li>\n<li>head circumference:\u00c2\u00a0 19&#8243; 69th percentile,\u00c2\u00a0American chart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Signs she uses regularly &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>more, eat, all done, shoes, want, drink, milk, bird, book, mama, daddy, Abbey, Payton (we&#8217;re working on Marley and Ethan), Lainey, please, ball, light, go (which, means anything with wheels, like her cozy coupe), balloon, dirty, and fish.\u00c2\u00a0 Swim in a new sign that she&#8217;s learning.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words she&#8217;s saying\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eye, mama, daddy (rhymes with mama &#8211; yaya), no (not the &#8220;n&#8221;, but just an &#8220;o&#8221; sound), more (sounds like &#8220;mu&#8221;), yes (&#8220;eh&#8221;), and bye (sounds like &#8220;my&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else is she doing?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>she can point to named objects in a book when we say, for example, where is the dog?<\/li>\n<li>she can follow commands, like go get your shoes or throw the diaper away<\/li>\n<li>she says &#8220;mama&#8221; when she wants\u00c2\u00a0me to pick her up.<\/li>\n<li>she growls (which sounds like she&#8217;s clearing her throat!) when she wants her tiger stuffed animal.<\/li>\n<li>she\u00c2\u00a0can\u00c2\u00a0say\u00c2\u00a0what a dog (she pants), kitty, and monkey says.<\/li>\n<li>she still loves all kinds of food.<\/li>\n<li>she loves playing with her stuffed animals&#8230;favorites now are tiger, baby tiger, puppy, and lion.<\/li>\n<li>she still climbs anything and everything&#8230;anything resembling a step stool (pack of water bottles, wipes box) becomes one.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>she loves books, although rarely has the attention span for us to read one to her.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She now will take you by the hand,\u00c2\u00a0and pull you to where she wants to go\/what she wants if she can&#8217;t get it across to you in signs or speech.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She still sleeps like a dream&#8230;in bed around 8:30 and up around 7:30.\u00c2\u00a0 Nap is still usually 2 hours.\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She LOVES the pool and has zero fear.\u00c2\u00a0 A good and potentially bad thing, so we plan to teach her to swim soon!\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>she learned how to hold her own nose and blow raspberries&#8230;very ladylike, don&#8217;t you think?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3134\/2672123730_61c206238c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We brought back a lot of these crackers that she loved in China, and she still loves them.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me tell you, they&#8217;re icky.\u00c2\u00a0 Very salty and strong tasting!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now for the bad news.\u00c2\u00a0 A week ago Sunday, we looked in Lainey&#8217;s mouth and saw a hole in her palate.\u00c2\u00a0 We have no idea how it got there, or how long it&#8217;s been there.\u00c2\u00a0 So, she&#8217;ll have to undergo another surgery sometime in the next 6 months &#8211; 1 year to close it.\u00c2\u00a0 They want to make sure that she is totally healed from the first surgery.\u00c2\u00a0 We were very bummed about this to begin with, but we always knew there was a chance that a fistula would develop.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve heard that they are more common in older children, 2 and up also.\u00c2\u00a0 So, we&#8217;ll deal with this bump in the road and obviously do whatever is needed.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s worth the trouble :)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3164\/2671300587_1083a22c16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of random pictures&#8230;this was taken the night before they turned 10.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tradition that I take the kid&#8217;s pictures on the night before their birthday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2090\/2672123606_8649af7e93.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A while ago, Gram and Pa-Paul sent a huge box of goodies&#8230;here the kids are going through all the loot.\u00c2\u00a0 They loved it!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO hairbows!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re still struggling with &#8220;Miss Grabby Hands&#8221; 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