23 MONTHS OLD

On Easter, Maddy turned 23 months old! We've had an interesting month..

Maddy caught another cold just a couple weeks after her last one, resulting in a trip to urgent care when she woke up from her nap with a rapid heartbeat and quick, shallow breathes. She was diagnosed with pneumonia and given an antibiotic, albuterol and prednisone. Luckily the kid likes to take medicine! She recovered very quickly and you'd never know that that she had been sick.

Unfortunately, this month we also felt the need to start giving Maddy time-outs, she dove head first into the "terrible twos". All the medicines she was taking for the pneumonia seemed to escalate the naughty behavior and she is behaving much better these days. Her favorite naughty behaviors include: climbing on the couch and hitting the glass walls in our family room, pulling cat tails, smothering the cats with her whole body, screaming, throwing all the couch cushions off the couch onto the floor, throwing food and drinks onto the floor, refusing to sit in the bathtub for a bath (we had a week of only stand up baths) and tantrums galore!

She did fine with me away for our first night apart, Grandma Jane held her throughout most of the night so daddy could rest. They get to have another sleep over this weekend while I am away for a wedding.

23 months finds Maddy:

• 26 pounds
• 33 inches
• size 7 shoe
  
• size 2T clothes
• size 5 diaper
• more independent
• a climber (climbed into her high chair by herself, all I heard was "I did it" and found her in her chair trying to snap the tray in)
• Putting more sentences together like "I see you, Lulla"
• washing herself with a wash cloth
• loves Caillou, play-doh, painting

Next month you turn 2! We are busy planning an Elmo birthday party for all your buddies. We love you Madeline Mae, and are amazed at how quickly you are becoming a big girl!

Love,

Momma and Dadda