22 month update

Well, our baby is 22 months old today. I really need to get started planning her 2nd birthday party! I can't believe she has been home with us for nine months now. Some days it seems like a lifetime and at other times I feel as if we were in China just yesterday. She is really doing great. She is getting so big and is so smart (I am a little biased of course). After much discussion with her daycare director she finally agreed to "try" Annslee in the 2 year old class. Apparently she missed the birthday cut off and would have to stay in the 1 year old class until January. Our biggest concern was that she is not yet really talking and so we wanted her around talkers. The daycare people thought she was fine staying in the 1 year old room. Hey, don't mess with a Mama and her baby...they finally decided that she would be in the 2 year old room on Mon,Wed & Fri and in the 1 year old room on Tues & Thurs. I thought that was a great compromise so we were set on that when we came home from vacation. Well, she went to the 2 year old room on Monday and when Dada picked her up Monday afternoon the daycare director said they were going to put her in the 2 year old room permanently. They all agreed she was ready (hadn't I been saying that all along?) Anyway, they said she was doing great with the "bigger" kids and that she was actually #1 in the class in potty training. Hey, your child has to be best at something...so ours is a good pooper : ) We are going big girl panty shoppping this weekend as she is dry through naps and her pullup isn't getting much action during the day. After talking to experienced parents taking the pullups off might be the final step to have her stay dry. We of course are asking her more than she is telling us about going potty but I know that is just part of the process. Of course we will talk to her teachers before we send her off to daycare sans pullups. I don't want them to be surprised by anything : O