Dagny Nears 2

In a couple weeks (give or take a day), Dagny will be 2.  Gulp.  I found an assortment of photos on my phone and figured I'd drop them all here to catalog a bit of her adorable personality.

Dressed for school (with her favorite shovel).

She adores eating Life cereal and is managing to eat more than she wears lately.

 Dagny is a pro at peeling off the back of foam stickers all by herself.  Now if only she'd start using them for artistic purposes instead of just piling them on top of each other...

Entertaining herself during Finley's gym class back in April.

 Her tower building skills are greatly improving thanks to these great blocks from Aunt Linda and Uncle Jacob down in White Plains.

She's likes you to start the structures and then she'll take over.

 Dagny can make her train track with minor support from us and she loves connecting as many train carriages together as possible.

She's got musical genes.

 A series of three goofy photos with Finley's Purim crown.

My sous chef.

And here she is being Mrs. Potato Head trying to wear the tiny glasses that come with the set.

She's quite something! But no pictures can capture her true personality, I realize.  She's amazingly articulate and talks like a "big person" trapped in a little person's body at times.  She knows what she wants and rarely accepts alternatives, though can still be pretty easily tricked/fooled into following our suggestions--thank goodness.  She is super sensitive to others' needs and is quick to offer a hug or some reassurance "you're okay, mama."  That brings up another recent development, I'm now "mama" to Dagny and not "mommy" anymore.  Dan's still Daddy, but I'm Mama and I have to admit, it's growing on me.  Finley calls me Moms and Dagny calls me Mama...at least I can tell who is yelling for me from the basement or their bedrooms!!

But back to Dagny, we are just loving watching her grow and learn.  She loves trucks and trains just like Finley, but also loves caring for babies and stuffed animals.  She attaches to certain toys/objects for days at a time and just when you think she'll never stop toting them around, she switches to something new.  Currently, she can't go anywhere without her $1 pink Target watering can, a blue mega-block piece, and a bouncy ball with a smiley face on it.  If it wasn't so adorable to watch her organize and keep track of all her items, it would probably drive me crazy! Oh, not mention that since she found a handful of baby spoons aka yogurt spoons in the utensil drawer, she's never more than a few feet from one of them.  "Where my yogurt spoons, Mama? I need my yogurt spoons, okay?" Okay, girl, whatever you want :)