Piper Pocket

What do you get when you combine 

one clumsy kid

and 

a jacket with two pockets?

One nervous Momma!!

Piper loves her rain coat and often wears it around the house.

She also likes to put her hands in her pockets

while she's wearing it

and run around. 

Piper is not very coordinated in the best of conditions,

so I keep waiting for a full face plant

into a wall or the floor to happen.

It's not IF it will happen.

It's WHEN. 

xo

Look Ma!
No hands!
(Ma is afraid that no hands will soon mean no teeth!)

Showing Dora and Ernie her pockets!

Update: Piper had her two-year check up with the doctor today. She did great!! She met all the developmental milestones that they look for plus beyond exceeded the vocab criteria once again. They expect a 2 year old to understand about 200 words and to be able to speak about 50. We counted up the words that Piper spoke regularly at 18 months and we were well over 100 words then. I would guess at this date, she's speaking closer to 300. It's crazy. She will tell me stories at bedtime about the boy who stole her bucket at the park last summer, about Sylvie's dog Georgie eating her cheesies after Halloween and about the "Sox (she doesn't say her 'F's', so really it's the fox) that ate the Gingerbread Man in one bite, CRUNCH. She's also pretty good at coming up with ways of telling us things using words that she does know when she doesn't know the real word to use. For example: a few days ago she wanted to tell me that I had 'sleep' in my eye. She didn't know what to call it, so she told me that I had a "booger in my eye". Smart hey?! We're pretty impressed with our little girl.

Also, for someone who started out so little, she has certainly caught up with the other kids when it comes to her growth! She is now in the 70th percentile for her weight (28 lbs) and is off the charts for her height!! That means that on average, if you took 100 kids her age and compared them, she would be the tallest! No real surprise there I guess. She didn't have much of a choice with Mark and I as parents!