{"id":8213,"date":"2015-05-08T08:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:42:27","slug":"a-doodle-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/a-doodle-two\/","title":{"rendered":"A Doodle Two"},"content":{"rendered":"
Warning: this is going to be one of those <\/strong>posts where I reminisce about the birth of my child and go on and on about how much I adore him. \u00a0<\/address>\n
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Two years ago, it all began. \u00a0The girls and I went for haircuts<\/a>\u00a0and the contractions began. \u00a0I took Honeybun to ballet and the contractions<\/a> became more frequent and stronger. \u00a0I went home and made dinner, hiding the increasing intensity of my labor from my parents. \u00a0The girls went to bed and 12 hours later, I birthed<\/a>\u00a0them a baby brother.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow marks 2 years with our little boy and man, has the time gone fast! \u00a0First birthdays are always important, but for some reason, in our family, 2nd birthdays always seem to happen during\u00a0significant family moments. \u00a0Honeybun turned two just weeks before the birth of her sister. \u00a0And Sugarplum turned two just weeks after we moved back to Florida from Dublin. \u00a0And now Doodle turns two as we turn another page in our family album.<\/p>\n

Part of me can’t believe that we’re here already, that he’s already two! \u00a0But then I look at him and I can’t deny it. \u00a0He is very much a toddler, becoming more and more independent every day and constantly surprising me with new skills, abilities and understandings.<\/p>\n

His vocabulary grows daily and has increased 2x in the past few weeks which has reduced his tantrums (though not as much as I wish!). \u00a0He understands way more than a two year-old should and spends his days doing things my girls didn’t do until much later like matching stacking blocks by color on his own, role\u00a0playing with dolls and animals, meticulously mowing every inch of the living room (we don’t have a kid size vacuum!) and has just begun enjoying reading books together.<\/p>\n

And my mommy’s boy who used to not be able to live without me has become more independent, a big fan of Grandpa but luckily just recently came back to me for cuddles and frequent kisses (which he refused to give me for months). \u00a0He turns to his big sisters for comfort when he’s upset and delights in trying to catch our kitties (who are not big fans of the game).<\/p>\n

He\u00a0is swimming in the pool without fear (with armbands), even putting his face down and kicking, trying to mimic his big sisters. \u00a0He tries to pedal his bicycle and push on his scooter. \u00a0He has learned to actually get off the ground to jump and climbs like a pro at the park.<\/p>\n

He loves to dig in the dirt and try to catch bugs with his sisters’ bug catchers. \u00a0He throws balls and tries to hit them with his golf clubs (and his sisters with swords). \u00a0He is loud and busy. \u00a0He is so much a boy.<\/p>\n

My little dude, who is not really so little at the top of the growth charts for height (but still lingering at the bottom for his weight, my skinny guy). He is truly incredible!<\/p>\n

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Warning: this is going to be one of those posts where I reminisce about the birth of my child and go on and on about how much I adore him. \u00a0 \u00a0 Two years ago, it all began. \u00a0The girls and I went for haircuts\u00a0and the contractions began. \u00a0I took Honeybun to ballet and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,631,388,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-birthday-posts","category-the-pregnant-life","category-time-to-celebrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}