Thursday, June 18, 2009

Happy Birthday Teyah!


My adorable peanut turned 2 this week! Just looking at these pictures makes me realize how grown up she is becoming!




She had a great birthday and had LOTS of help from her sisters when she opened presents!


With our third girl, we sometimes struggle knowing what to get her, but this spinning, bouncing, interactive horse was a total hit! She could hardly stand waiting while Daddy was trying to put it together.


Can you believe Teyah is wearing the exact same birthday shirt she did for her first birthday!?

Some things to remember about Teyah:

*She is petite, however she's had a little growth spell recently and weighed 24.5 lbs and 33 inches at her 2-year check-up (about 20th percentile on both).

*She is easy going, but occasionally when she really wants something she can make a big fit and we see a little feistiness!

*She loves her sisters. She asks for them, she's sad when they are gone, and always wants to do everything they are doing. I never knew a 1-year-old would love playing Polly Pockets, Barbies, etc. but the "big girl" things are what she loves.

*She loves to dance and recently has started to do a lot of singing too. We catch her singing all kinds of songs! She particularly loves the Alphabet Song, the Clean-up Song, and High School Musical Songs. One day in the car, Aubrie and Ellie were having a HSM singing competition, where they would sing and then say who that sounded the most like, and Teyah said, "My turn. My turn. Na, na, na, nah, na, na, na, nah... Rella, Rella" (for Gabriella). She also asks to sing along to "Meemo" which is the "Finding Nemo" soundtrack from the musical. She tries to sing along to the whole thing, and it's so adorable!

*She is a great talker and often says 5 word sentences.

*She had a lot of sickness through the winter, so we are actually considering having her tonsils and adenoids taken out, along with adding another set of tubes in her ears.

*She loves hugs; her blankie; her family; ice cream; her Grandma and talking to her on the phone; and being independent.

*She has been going on the potty for about 3 months now. I'm waiting to completely train her though until I'm not so pregnant sick. This is the earliest any of my kids have been successful on the toilet and at first I was just so surprised that she knew what to do!

Teyah, you are such a sweetheart, and we love you so so much!

3 comments:

Heather said...

Happy Birthday Teyah! She is such a sweetie. Spencer likes the cleanup song too. . .I think it's a nursery thing! I actually let Spencer open his presents from Mom on the porch before the girls realized there was a package so that he could open SOME of them by himself! :-)

Trish and Matt said...

Adorable!

~Wyatt~Brittney~Brecken~Oliver~ said...

Happy Birthday Teyah! What a cutie! And I love all the things you wrote about her! I can't wait for Brecken to start talking more so I know what is going on in that head of his!