Dear Eden,

I wrote you a letter on your actual second birthday, but it vanished into thin air. It makes me sad that I didn’t pot it in time so that it never would occur, but hopefully this letter will still capture you at two years old. You are now two years four months so I at least didn’t miss the window by too much!

Can I just tell you what a beautiful little girl you are? I seriously am so enamored by everything you do or say. You can be super silly, you can be super sweet, and your voice just melts my heart. I am so glad you are my daughter, and that I even have a daughter!

We took you to the doctor not long ago and everything checks out! You are doing everything a two year old is supposed to do. You are in the 70th percentile for weight and height, and I do love your legs! They are the perfect amount of chunkiness. You can be a good eater, but you have been pickier as of late. You love sweets and snacky foods. You ask for chocolate milk all the time. One of my favorite things you do, though, is rummage through Eli’s backpack when he gets home from Preschool, find whatever he didn’t eat in his lunch, and deem it your lunch!

You have many interests, all that circle around shows or videos. You loved baby shark for a time, calling it Daddy doo doo, then Daddy shark, then Mommy shark, and then most recently calling it what it really is. You also love Cocomelon (a youtube show full of nursery rhymes and songs) and will start singing a lot of their songs, like Itsy Bitsy Spider and Rain, Rain Go Away. I just eat your singing up! Lastly, we have entered the Paw Patrol stage. You called it Double for a time, but now say the real deal. You love the toys and the show, and Skye is your favorite. I swear as soon as one child is done with Paw Patrol the next child just starts interest in it. This mom doesn’t catch a break!

In addition to singing, you love to dance as well. You like to raise one arm, bob your head, and tap your feet. Other things you’ve learned to do is go down the stairs. I wish I got a video of it, but in addition to turning around and going down, you’ve opted occasionally on bouncing on your butt and, my favorite, full on belly slide down (feet first, of course). You were the soonest of my kids to learn how to jump and you do it regularly. 

Some of your favorite things to do is brush your teeth (more like eat the tootpaste), play with toys, read books, go outside, sing, and dance. You are so easy to put down to sleep, thank goodness, as long as you have your “Puppy binky” and your two blankets. We have to have all these things to get you content, though. You have started to like clothes, opting to put new clothes on the second you see or get any. You do that with toys as well. “Open it! Open it!” Your vocabulary is pretty expansive, I can’t write all the words you know here. I’ve heard you utter up to four words in a sentence, but it averages two to three. You refer to yourself as baby usually, but that will soon need to change…

Because you are going to be a big sister come March! You are having a baby brother, so you and I will have to stick together as the only girls. I think you will be a wonderful big sister, but I hope it doesn’t rock your world too much! You do like to be held a lot by me and consider yourself as the baby in the family. I try to teach you about the baby in mommy’s belly, but you only point to your own belly when I point to mine and say “baby brother!” I’m sorry we couldn’t get you a sister, but luckily at this age you cannot be disappointed!

You are the happiest little girl and definitely know how to get what you want! You bat your big, beautiful brown eyes and use your cute little voice to say please and thank you and there is no hope for this mom! Please stay this sweet forever! I need it in my life. Be that sunshine in others’ lives! I love you so much, baby girl and I hope the rest of your two’s is filled with wonder and learning. And patience, as I know it’s hard for you when we don’t always understand what you want or need. I know you can change the world, because you have changed mine.

Love, 

Mama