2 1/4 Years

• Yeah, I'm kind of grasping at straws here, but I wanted to write a bit about what is going on with Gabrielle right now. I'm about to start a new contract job that will keep me quite busy for the next few months, so I need to write in here while I can! 
• Gabrielle is over the Bubble Guppies :( I'm not sure if she's really totally over it, but when I give her a choice to watch a TV show she has picked Fresh Beat Band every time for the past couple of weeks. The show has four "teenagers" [they really could be like 25, who knows] that sing and dance. Gabrielle copies some of the dance moves and hums along. When they hit high notes Gabs closes her eyes and screeches as a loud as she can, haha.
• And it kind of hit me last time I was at Target and walked through the toy isles; my kid would seriously love just about everything there. Before it was kind like eh, she's probably like anything someone got her. Now she LOVES her baby dolls and every accessory that could possibly go with them. I finally got her birthday gifts with Uncle Greg's Toys R Us gift card - I picked out a baby car seat and shopping cart to "shop" with and she loved them! She goes "grocery shopping" in our pantry and fills up her cart :)  She likes dolls, Dora, Olivia, Hello Kitty, animal toys, fish anything....everything! 
• She loves music and dancing.  I honestly think she will be into music and/or dancing.  She just recently starting singing to songs.  They're songs she has listened to forever, but her little brain finally caught up and can sing along to some of the words too! 
• She hasn't let me read her books in quite a while...she has to read them.  She looks at the pictures and describes what is going on and turns the pages.
• I think she is becoming just about fluent in English....haha.  But no really, I feel like she is talking more like a real person instead of toddler gibberish.  She usually really likes to talk and we can rarely shut her up.
   
• The past three days Gabrielle has ASKED to go on the potty and proceeded to do her #2 for the day [even when we were at Jason and Corinne's house].  Pretty exciting stuff.  I'm still not pushing potty training, but come April it will be underwear for her!