As perhaps evidenced by her dramatic flare, Noelle is smart. She talks in sentences, knows some opposites, speaks some Spanish, can recognize most letters, and does a bit of counting. This is a mixed blessing - we are glad she is bright, but it keeps us on our toes!
She is very determined and independent - when she wants to be. She likes to pick out her own clothes, put on her hat, gloves, and shoes, brush her own teeth, etc. Except when she doesn't want to do it on her own and whines til mommy or daddy helps her! Noelle is pretty whiny still, and we are working on deep breaths and breaks to calm down! She prefers dresses to other clothes, but loves a good pair of jeans. Her "snow boots" (really just an ugg-type boot) are her current favorite footwear.
Noelle remains about average weight and is pretty tall for her age. We don't have percentiles since it is a half year, but at 30 pounds and a little over 36 inches, she towers over most of her female friends. She is very active, loves running around the house and outside, and enjoys riding her ice cream truck or tricycle to the living room "where Costco is" to go shopping. Yes, her favorite store mirrors my own! She is also quite a fan of Target and Home Depot, the bank (they have lollipops!), Chick-fil-A, the mall, the library, and every playground in our general vicinity!
Noelle's favorite books right now are One Fish, Two Fish, Pinkalicious, and Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild. It is fun to start getting in to some longer books, although it does make bedtime take longer! She also loves anything and everything Dora, and has lots of books and a few movies about Dora's world. Her other favorite show is Fresh Beat Band, a sort of 2012 version of Kid's Incorprorated from our generation. They have some pretty catchy songs so mom and dad highly prefer this show to some of the others! Noelle has also started liking movies. She can't sit through a whole one but we have started watching some of the Disney and Pixar classics in quarter or half doses. Toy Story and Cinderella are her current favorites.
Favorite toys currently include her easel, dry erase crayons, and magnets, her kitchen, cupcake, and pizza sets, her "barbie," a few stuffed animals, her cat piano, and anything she thinks her brother might want to play with. The sit and spin animal speller just returned to our house from the Hollywood's and while it is really for younger kids, in her determination not to let Kellen have anything that was hers and could be fun, she likes to play with it. She also likes to "drive" some of her little cars around the upstairs of our house, especially when she is waiting for daddy to get ready in the morning.
Noelle is a great eater. She loves vegetables and her current favorites are broccoli and edamame. She also loves fruit. She is developing a sweet tooth like her mother but we don't give her much in that department. She likes peanut butter and meat but definitely prefers fruit and veggies to her proteins. We have always made her have what we are eating and had her eat her veggies first and that seems to have served us well!
Knock on wood, Noelle has been consistently pooping in the potty for about 3 weeks. It is pretty awesome to no longer change poopy diapers for two kids. We are still working on peeing. She is dry occasionally for a whole day, but often has 2 or so accidents (she still wears diapers or pull-ups). She still won't tell us when she needs to go pee so everything is just based on us making her go once an hour or so. We think we are getting close to having a potty trained little one. About a year after we hoped it would happen, but I guess we didn't take into account that our daughter would be as stubborn as her parents!
Noelle's two best friends are Katushka and Oliver at daycare. They are almost like siblings in that there is some pushing and hitting occasionally in between all of the hugs and playing. We're working on that. With her other friends, Noelle is always super well behaved. Noelle is also hit or miss on her feelings about her brother. One second she is saying he is her best friend, and the next that we should leave him upstairs and that we don't love him. I am hoping this is normal sibling jealousy! Just in case, we are making sure not to leave her alone in a room with her little brother!
So that's the 2.5 year update. I can't believe she is already a little lady!
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