Brynleigh Grace at Two.

This, as usual, is a long overdue post. My baby has been 2 for almost two months! I still can't believe she is so old. Here's an update on her!

As always, she's so smart. She has a huge vocabulary and knows the most random things. A few weeks ago she just started telling me about telescopes and how you can look at the moon through them. No clue where she learned that but I was blown away!

She loves singing. Her favorite songs are I Am A Child of God, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (both of which she knows the whole thing), Book of Mormon Stories, and the ABCs. She can sing all her ABCs now and recognizes most letters. Thank you SuperWhy! (Seriously the best kids show. PBS.). Oh, but unless it's when I'm tucking her in at night, she HATES it when I sing. Whenever I try to sing along with a show she's watching, or even singing in the car, she starts yelling "NOOOOOOOO! NO MOM!" I guess I really am that bad of a singer.

She loves babies and kids, but she's super shy around adults other than family. Whenever someone talks to her, she immediately looks down and won't lift her head until they walk away. She loves nursery now and loves talking about the other kids. She calls all the boys 'Parker' and all the girls 'Quinn'--Parker is her favorite little boy and Quinn is her favorite girl. And she's convinced that Quinn's older sister Paige is still in nursery every Sunday, even though she graduated to Sunbeams at the beginning of the year.

Our latest thing we've been working on is differentiating between boys and girls, or 'ladies and boys', as Bryn calls them. She's really good about adults (we'll ask her what Mom, MeMe, Daddy, Poppa, etc are), but kids are harder. She knows she's a lady and baby brother is a boy, but gets confused on others. It's pretty cute though. 

Potty training has been our downfall. This girl just does not want to do it. She totally understands the concept, but she is just so dang stubborn. She uses the potty all the time, but just not everytime. She only wants to do it on her own schedule. She throws a tantrum and refuses if I just try to make her go at intervals. She loves wearing her big girl undies, but doesn't care about having accidents in them. She asks to go potty whenever we enter a store, because she knows I'll buy her a treat if she goes. Seriously, this girl knows how to work the system. And she always asks to go during Sacrament meeting in church because she sees her newly potty-trained friends getting up to go to the bathroom with their parents. So yeah, she's really good about going potty sometimes, we're just having a tough time with the consistency part of it. Oh, and she recently went through a phase where it was near impossible to change her diaper because she laughed hysterically and squirmed all over, insisting her 'lady parts' were extremely ticklish while being wiped. Sterling also thought this was hysterical, likely because he wasn't the one trying to change the diaper.

She now sleeps in a big girl bed! We converted her crib into a toddler bed months ago, then we just bought her a twin bed earlier this week. She loves it and is doing great! Every morning she wakes up on her own and comes running into our bedroom and demands food ASAP. Then, of course, once we drag ourselves out of bed and make her breakfast, she gets caught up playing and ignoring her food for at least 20 minutes.

She's such a picky eater, by the way. She has her certain foods she'll eat, and she's not a big fan of branching out. Luckily her favorite foods are mainly healthy ones, but I definitely wish she'd eat a wider variety of food. Her favorites are yogurt, cheese, almonds, any fruit, baby carrots, pretzels, and eggs. Right now she's also really into eating oatmeal (with homemade jam) for breakfast and eating peanut butter straight off a spoon. And she's always a fan of candy, but what child isn't. She used to like meat a lot, but we've been having a really hard time getting her to eat any lately. I'm really hoping she gets out of this picky stage soon because I hate having to make up a separate little plate every night at dinner, since she rarely will eat what we're having.

She loves to help me cook. Whenever I go into the kitchen she's demanding I pull a chair up to the counter for her. She loves helping stir when we bake something, and is lightening-quick to dig her hand into the bowl and eat a handful of plain flour.

She loves baths and showers. She showers with me every day (or every other day, let's be honest, showers don't always happen) and takes a bath before bed every night. She just loves water. And bubbles.

I could go on about this girl for days, so I better stop and give you some pictures of her lately! 

Loving bathtime and her toys.

She loves this game. The baby doll freaks me out.

Loving the chocolate covered strawberries MeMe made us.

We went to Twin for Cousin Sam's basketball game. She is obsessed with 'Shaaam'.

Playing with MeMe. MeMe is the one who invented this weird baby in boots game.

Playing at the park! We had such nice weather!

Seriously, melt my heart.

She loves playing hide and seek. One time, it was her turn to hide so she dragged this from the play room into the living room to hide in. Totally not obvious or anything.

She had a sleepover at MeMe's house last month when Mom and Dad decided to take a little getaway to the hot springs. She did great and loved her backpack.

Ignore the super dirty mirror, but this girl LOVES looking in the mirror. And taking selfies. We're in trouble with this one.

This was from my birthday. My mom had us over for cake and this is how the animal decided to eat hers.

Having a playdate with the famous Paige and Quinn. She loves these girls.

Playing with cousin Lizzie.

Playing in the snow last month. She loves snow and doesn't care about freezing her little hands.

This was at the Achievement Day Luau last week. One of the teens was pulling the little girls around the gym. Brynleigh was being shy and trying to hide how much fun she was having.