An update on Cheyenne

• Cheyenne will be 3 in about 6.5 weeks! That is so crazy to me! One of my favorite/funny things about Cheyenne right now is that she has two imaginary friends "Dohdoh" and "Gahgah." They probably don't have H's in their name, but that is how you pronounce them:) She pretends to carry them in her hand and she will often say, "Mommy No!!! Dohdoh was sittin there!" or "Come on Gahgah, we're going to the store!"
• She really has a great imagination.
• She loves doing different emotion faces (sad, scared, angry, happy, surprised, etc.).
• She loves to pretend she is helping some animal find their home/mommy/family (courtesy of Dora I believe).
• She is always pretending she is on some adventure.
• I have been trying to instill our love of sports in her, but it is not catching on as quickly as I had hoped... she does like to pretend she is doing gymnastics finally after months of me trying to teach her things. She will randomly do a table, candlestick, straddle, pike, stick-tada, pointed toes, kicks, walking on the "beam" (any long skinny object). She also likes to throw and catch balls, but not all the time. She knows what every kind of ball is and what you are supposed to do with it (soccer ball uses feet, volleyball uses hands, etc.)
• She always tells Jeff, "Daddy you are a really good football player." Which is funny because we never said that to her.
• She will pretend to play something and I ask if she is playing and she says, "No, I'm coaching."
• We go on walks and she can run/walk the entire .75 mile loop.
• She loves to sing
• Her favorite songs in the car are in order: "Hehehehe Dance song." (I think it is by Kesha or Katy Perry or Britany Spears or one of those people, I can't stand it, but it was on a CD one of my vb players made for me and she LOVES it). "Riding Solo" is her next favorite which I am okay with because I love it too. and then the "Curious George Song" by Jack Johnson. Then the "Grandpa Frank Song" (when Grandpa comes Primary song. She asks over and over for one of these songs until she hears it. Then when it is over she usually says "again!" She totally dances and sings along too. It is pretty funny, but I am ready for some new favorite songs!
• She is always randomly coming up to me to give me a hug and a kiss.
• She always randomly says, "I love you."
• When she wakes up in the morning she asks, "where is daddy." When I tell her he is at work she is disappointed.
• She will often ask, "Is Daddy making money so we can go to the bouncy house?" Because I told her one time, Daddy goes to work to make money so we can have a house, food and do fun things like go to the bouncy house. The other day we were at Moe's for dinner and Jeff usually gets Nachos which comes with this cheese sauce to dip chips in, but he had gotten a burrito this time. Cheyenne was saying she wanted dip and I told her we didn't have the money for it this time, but maybe next time. She turned to Jeff and said, "Daddy you forgot to bring the money for the cheese dip?" It just cracked me up, because she knew Daddy made the money so he must have forgotten. Its not that cheese dip is that expensive, I just want her to grow up being aware of the difference between wants and needs and know that we can't just buy everything we feel like.
• She will often say, "I need (fill in the blank)," then I look at her and she laughs and says, "I don't need it, I want it!" I love when she says that. Who knew you could teach a two year old such a concept that many adults don't even understand?!
• Whenever Jeff is home, she will randomly say, "Daddy, I'm really glad you're home."
• She LOVES to color and there will be drawings on any paper that is left out. She can draw people as circles with eyes nose and mouth and then 4 lines coming out of the circle for arms and legs. She also likes to draw caterpillars (a bunch of circles together) and jellyfish/octopus (circles with lines coming out of it).
• She always wants me to draw things for her. Mostly I draw her friend Layla or Layla's mommy, Heidy or her Daddy, Zane. They would probably be creeped out if they knew how many drawings of them we had in our house, haha!
• She can write the letter L, T, F, E, and H. Mostly she will just do H. She has to feel like writing the letter too, because if you tell her to do it she usually wont, but when you are not looking you will see her write them.
• She can recognize all of her letters upper and lower case.
• She can almost count to 20, but sometimes she gets mixed up in the teens. She also repeats 19 sometimes.
• She loves sweets and wants to eat them for every meal. I usually give her some sort of healthy snack (fruit/veggie) while she is waiting for me to cook dinner, lunch, breakfast and she always asks, "Can I have candy corn while I am waiting?" She thinks one time I will let her I guess.
• She loves to dress up and act like some character (mean witch, beautiful princess, Grandma's kitty, etc.)
• She loves to play with friends.
• She loves to be silly, especially with Daddy.
• She LOVES Family Night.
• She still loves Dora, but has expanded her repertoire to include Diego, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Blues Clues and Sesame Street. She still has yet to sit for an entire movie, except in the movie theatre we saw "Lion King" in 3D and "Winnie the Pooh." The only reason she made it through those is that she had goldfish crackers which are her favorite but I never buy them, so she ate the entire bag both times.
• She calls the Movie theatre the "Movie Figator" I love it.
• Everyone comments how they "love her voice." I have no idea what this means, because I hear it all the time I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing. I remember when she was like 3 months old people would always laugh and say, "oh her hair, its so funny and cute." I had no clue what they were talking about but now that I look back it looked so weird because she was balding around the outside of her head, it wasn't so much cute, people were just trying to be nice. So now, I don't know if something is wrong with her voice, but about 5 or 6 people have commented on it and I have no idea why it is different. I think she may have a deeper voice than most little girls and she is only two so she pronounces a lot of words differently... I have no idea, but I am sure I will look back in a few years and know what people were talking about:)
• She loves going to Daddy's football games. Last year her favorite thing was the band and this year it is the Blue Devil.
• She is learning the days of the week and knows that we go to church on Sundays, Family night on Mondays and Friday football day. She says her favorite day of the week is Monday.
• She loves Berkeley, but is always making her cry.
• She is still a sweetheart, but has gotten more of an opinion on things and doesn't always do exactly as she is told anymore.
• She is fully potty trained during the day, but has gone back to wearing a diaper at night. She only wets it about 1 time every couple of weeks, but that is enough for us to keep a diaper on her, because we really like the bed she sleeps on.
• Her biggest excuse for getting out of bed is to go potty, but half the time she actually does go potty so we have to keep letting her.
• She now always has to have a night light on.
• She still loves to "read" books. She will say a lot of them pretty well from memory. They are not word for word, but she tells the story well.
• She is always saying something to make Jeff and I laugh.
• We love her soooo much!