Oh what a year! In 2009, I returned back to work full time, started potty training Julia, went to several amusement parks in the summer and shipped her off to daycare for two days a week.
It is amazing to see how much Julia has transformed from baby to toddler in one year.
In Janauary 2009, most of her verbal dialogue was "Bucka bucka bucka buckaaaa" and "Bye Bye" and "Uh-oh". Now it's "No, Mommy, sit there, I do myself!" or "Listen! Shhhh...listen...I farted!"
She went from not really understanding birthdays or holidays to asking about Santa and his gifts or ripping into her gifts ferociously and oohing and ahhing.
She went from being a relatively compliant little baby to a terror when she's mad. "No! I'm angry! I'm going to the corner!"
She has developed a love for all things princessy and hot pink (despite all my hard work to keep gender neutral in my household) and now asks to put on my makeup.
She tells me now "Mommy, I'm not a baby. I'm a little girl eating my yogurt (or whatever action she's doing currently)".
I loved her as a baby but I love her even more as a toddler. She has grown so much and has learned so much! She has become my little mini me, my sidekick and really, the love of my life.
I hope 2010 is just as a joyful of a year as 2009 was. Happy New Year!
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