Bye-Bye Baby

We haven’t seen bottles for over a year

or diapers for the last 6 months

but now it is official.

She is a sweet little bundle of 2 year old thumb-sucking cuteness, but she certainly is not a baby anymore.

My little girl is so proud of being able to climb in and out of bed all by herself. Up-down-up-down. All smiles. She even tried the great childhood joy of jumping on the bed – I wasn’t so thrilled with that one.

She loves having us climb into her “big bed” with her – Okay, so it is really still her crib with the side off (I can’t fathom spending money on a toddler bed that gets used for only a few months) but it works just the same.

My little girl spent all afternoon moving stuffed animals from the bed to her rocking chair and back, gently talking to them and telling them that it was time to go “nite-nite.” So sweet!

And yes – her room really does look like this all the time, but the rest of the house doesn’t. My youngest is a bit of a neat-nik. She carefully picks up every stray carpet fiber and closes her closet doors whenever I forget. I’m keeping these photos as evidence to prove to her 16 year old self that she was capable of keeping her room clean at 2 – not that it will do me a lick of good at that stage, but a mom can dream.

Bye-bye baby, but let’s wait on learning to drive for a few years, okay?