She is TALL. She is a tall tall girl. She is an inch taller than a girl a year older than her and
her mom thought SHE was tall. My mom told me that 'to protect her from the evil eye' tell people
that she is three (she is not even two yet) . Mandy injected the voice of reason by saying
that 'if we do that then people will think she is a slow learner which she is not'.

She is a puzzle solver and has the patience that she can only get from her mom's side.
She is constantly finding all the snaps of the stroller and snapping them into place.
She takes the water bottles , her sippy cups - anything that can be twisted and closed
shut and does those herself often with the patience and an attention span rarely seen
in her daddy. I guess that is the same gene that makes her mom solve Sudoku - for fun!

She is a cautious adventurer. She walks carefully at the fort at McKinley park but isn't afraid
to go down the slide in various positions once she has tried them. Yes, even when there is a kid
at the other end. Yes, even when she knows the other end has spilled water. The water that she spilled.

She loves to be naked. She takes off her clothes every opportunity she gets. THen tries
to put them on all at the same time. Often we will see her putting on two shorts and a shirt at the same time.
All on the bottom.

She is mostly toilet trained. This is perhaps Mandy's great achievement. My little girl is capable of
telling us she wants to go pee pee.Get her potty, take her bottoms off , do her thing and if it is no .2 = call us.
And then empty her little potty in the toilet and flush. Its funny how she claps after the flush. The positive reinforcement
thing totally works .It works a bit too well actually in the sense that we do it even when she isn't around.
Nothing like flushing the toilet and going 'YAAAAAAY' and clapping as a grown man. In an airport bathroom.

She is so so so loving. She gives me a flying kiss every time I leave the house and a kiss every time I come back.
The rest of the time that she is around me she keeps on kissing my cheeks even when I haven't shaved. She has a fascination with keys and keeps on asking for my keys which she recognizes so I can't fool her by giving fake keys.

She is a good jumper. She has her little trampoline which she jumps on while I jump on mine to lymphasize.
I count about 100 to 150 jumps and am DONE. She is still going.

Enuff for today. More later....

Tapandy