22-23 Months

I didn't do a 22 month update, and when Grace turns 23 months we will have a brand new baby in the house  so I may not get around to that one either, so I figured I'd post an update now.

• First of all, I can't believe our baby is almost two! 
• Grace's vocabulary continues to expand. She uses full sentences and has started speaking in the first person. 
• She can spell her name. Okay, maybe that's a stretch. But if she sees her name written, she will point to each letter and say "G - R - A - C - E spells Grace!"
• She has very little interest in the potty. She started pooping and peeing on the potty this summer, but stopped when she was sick and never got back into it. She likes to sit on the potty before bath time but it doesn't result in anything. We're not in a rush, but we make sure the potty is available to her and offer it to her when we can tell she's pooping. We might try more potty training after we get settled with the new baby.  
• We're seeing some minor tantrums. Lately I've been trying not to pick her up as much because I will likely be having a c section and won't be able to lift her for a while. She does not like this. I try instead to hold her hand if she wants to be carried somewhere or have her climb up on the couch with me but sometimes, mostly in the mornings, she just wants me to carry her. 
• She's still a big book lover. She loves being read to and is now starting to 'read' some of her favorite books from memory. Most of her books are in the playroom, but she has a few in her room; I often hear her 'reading' when she wakes up from a nap. "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what you see?" Or, from Grumpy Bird "Bird woke up, he grumpy. Too grumpy eat, too grumpy play, too grumpy fly!"
• Her memory is amazing. She will randomly talk about something we did weeks ago, and has a great memory for people's names. 
• She recently started wearing size 2T clothes. She's getting so big!
• She loves to play hide and seek. When we hear Daddy open the door when he gets home from work she says "hide! hide!" and waits for Daddy to come find her. She also likes to hide things and then asks us to go find them. 
• She loves play dough. We play with at home on rainy days, but lately she's been asking for it a lot. When we go to Wee Bears she makes a beeline for the play dough table right away. 
• She likes secrets. Aunt MaryAnne always whispers this cute little secret to Grace:
  
  Wanna hear a secret?
  Promise not to tell? 
  Two little peanuts in a peanut shell!
  

  Grace will whisper in my ear:
  

  Wanna secret?

  Prom not tell? 

  Two peanuts, shell!
  

  It's pretty cute.