22 months old

Miss Faith-y turned 22 months old this Tuesday.

It is deja vu in so many aspects. I keep telling Dan that it's crazy to think that when Maddie was this age, she would be a big sister to her Beebster in another 12 days. 

Now, Faith is at that age that I seem to remember specifically well with Maddie. I remember right before Faith was born, Maddie had started to want to walk almost the entire length of our daily walks all by herself. Faith has been doing this for two weeks now. She barely ever sits in the stroller now, although I take it with me just in case. She LOVES picking up acorns, "cherries," rocks, etc.  We collect everything and bring it back here to paint them or color them with whatever we happen to have- markers, glitter paints, glitter and glue, etc. Maddie used to love that too at this age. 

I don't remember Maddie being so incredibly attached to Dan though. She's always been Dan's little Cran and considers him to be her prince (when she and Beebster were looking for Dan on TV this past Sunday during the Eagles game, Maddie kept saying "oh, Momma.. where is the prince of my dreams?!"), but I don't remember this funny stage of complete and utter fascination the way that Faith does with her Da-da. She LOVES him. She breathes him. They are the best of friends. I think it's awesome. Dan went to the Eagles game on Sunday, and Faith walked around with his car keys the entire day. She did not put them down. She took them to bed with her. She got incredibly angry when Cole tried to snatch them from her twice that day-- which, she definitely is not as submissive as Maddie about stuff, but she usually doesn't put up that much of a fight either. While Maddie played with Cole, Kayla, and Chloe that afternoon, Faith sat in the grass with her Da-da's car keys. I asked her constantly if she wanted to play with everyone, and she would just shake her head and say "Da Da" and hold on to the keys. It was precious. Needless to say, she was one happy little Beebster when she saw him on Monday morning!

We went to cousin's house again on Wednesday, which is always a blast for Maddie and Faith. She is so funny about waiting right by the window at 11pm (after I've woken them up to get them ready to go) looking for Da-da and his car lights. I've never seen her run so fast like she does when I announce that it is indeed Da-da's car. Dan was telling me in the car that night that he'll always remember and cling to these moments as his little women's best friend at this age, just in case they don't want to be around as much later on in the good ol' teenage years!