Sometimes I can't stop kissing her precious little cheeks and other times I want to bop her on the head. C'mon, you know you feel the same way if you've had a toddler.
From the start she's been so different from her older sister. While we cheered Adria learning to army crawl 3 inches on her first birthday, Johanna was already running around the house by the time she turned one. On the flip side, Adria had memorized and could recite the words of a few simple children's books by her second birthday, while Johanna has really only mastered a dozen or so words that mainly just we can understand. She always jabbers, it's just not intelligible most of the time. Vocabulary will come, she's too busy adventuring all over!
Johanna is a constant ball of energy every waking moment. It's stunning really. But at least she'll often take a 2-3 hour afternoon nap for Daddy. Every day she wants to wear a "jesh", that's a dress, and may have a major meltdown if you deny her this. The dress is critical for her dancing, this occurs anytime music is playing. It's generally just spinning in circles but she's learning a few new moves, one being a bottom shake. Hmmmm.
Shoes and socks are never worn indoors by her, this is unacceptable. She would be happy to live on a diet of cheese, strawberries, milk and Smarties with the occasional yogurt and granny applesauce. Bows, clips, hair ties...what are those? They rarely stay in long enough to keep her bouncy brown hair out of her eyes. She loves babies and animals and says "ahh coot" when she sees either. Thrills and speed get her giggling, but once it stops...beware. She doesn't actually walk, it's more of a skip, hop, jog around the house.
Her expressions are endless. Her frown, troubling. Her strength, impressive. Her smile, infectious.
In her 2 short years little Jo-Jo has been known to:
- eat a tub of butter
- dump sister's medicine on the carpet
- poo in the tub, multiple times
- draw on our friend's wall
- empty the kitchen cabinets then hide in there
- enjoy the taste of dirt
- spew at the most inconvenient of times
- throw away her sneakers and other useful items
- dump what seems like gallons of water on the bathroom floor
- secretly hide away in the pantry with a bag of chips
- steal away a pack of oreos right from under my nose
and dozens of other things that demand the common phrase, "No Jo!"
That's our baby girl! Are these things normal??? Hahaha! We never experienced this kind of stuff with Adria. But it holds a preciousness all it's own (when you look back on the moment :)
We are so thankful for this little gift given to us before Christmas two years ago. And we are excited to see what God has in store for our beautiful, adventurous little girl!
Our happy little Jo-Jo
Mommy and her new baby on December 2, 2011
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