Keep Calm and Carry Me Mommy!

River is rip-roaring into her TWOs people! April 30th at 11:01 am will mark River's emergence into this world two years ago. Every day she has changed me. Every day she and I are new again. 

Clearly, every mother has the cutest, most-awesomashious, most intelligent, clever baby. And I'm one of those mothers.

I love you, my sweet little River diver schmiver Isabella Rae ducky face smoochy woochy. More than your or I will ever know.

When I'm really freaked out I just look to you for the answers...and you always have them. Even if they aren't the ones I want to hear. I trust you more than any person or thing or idea on this planet. You are you. And you are perfectly you.

Today, River loves:

Burger, my mom's dog
All of her grandparents
Drawing
Dancing
Singing her ABC's
Sidewalk chalk
Playing pretend
Playing in the park
Playing with children twice her age
dirt
Saying the word "tyk-so" (tricycle)
Music and singing to the different cds we have
Seeing her sisters

Today, River hates:

Participating in group organized sports. Lol. Sorry. She still likes watching them
Being put down on a hard day
Leaving a grandparent's house


River's newly aquired skills:

*Accuracy in her ABC's
*Filling in sentances from using ah for articles to using words like "want" and "like" and "love," and the, a, in, on, etc.
*Imagination-she has an imagination second to none. I am often fascinated by the elaborate worlds and conversations she makes up and plays within. It's as if she lives in two worlds at the same time. Today she was pretending to put the dog's leash on and every time Burger moved she'd pretend to be pulled along by the leash. She often "mixes" new foods and washes and takes care of her baby dolls.
* She actively uses whichever name she's using that day. But she does have a sense that she is an individual.
*She's fully ambulatory (or thinks she is) on the playground equipment. Apparently babies can fly.
*Using chopsticks...well, pretty well for her first time around!

My sweet little weirdo

Seventh inning stretch with Orbit in the background. Daddy and River joined Grampy Ken for an afternoon at the baseball game! All dressed up in her soccer uniform for this ABQ pasttime. ;)