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Dear Michelle

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By Sarah
Dear Michelle,
I am so grateful to have you as a daughter! You are fun and sweet and
your smile is simply grand.  I'm very impressed with your vocabulary
and super shocked you are potty trained already -- at 24 months!
I admire your ability to stay out of fights with your older siblings
but instead earn their adoration. I admire how you can play contently
all by yourself when I need you to most. I appreciate how on days when
I feel unloved, you brighten my day and make me feel like I'm doing
ok.  Thank you for liking the toys and clothes I buy you. Thank you
for being forgiving and concerned for others. Thank you for being my
amazing "big little girl" as you've been saying lately. I am
incredibly grateful for you, my miracle child.
Love you,
Mom

At Michelle's check up the doctor and nurse had to go mainly off of my reporting due to Michelle's unwillingness to cooperate (a new experience with her).  I guess she found it strange that the first thing she was asked to do was take off all her clothes.  We let her keep her pink puppy dog shirt on and didn't realized until afterward she had clung to her sippy cup the entire time.  The nurse, Jessica, didn't even care b/c it had been such a battle.  So, with a 9 oz. full thing of water, Michelle weighed 25 pounds.  W/o our estimation of the water, she's in the 27th percentile for weight.  She is certainly our skinniest child -- by a lot!  (Kaelah likes to hover around 50% and Danny around 75%.)  She is also our shortest, which is hilarious considering who her dad is.  If we double her height, Michelle should be 5'7" when she grows up.  Hey, at least she'll be an inch taller than me.  (Kaelah is estimated to be 5'9" and Danny 6' flat.)  I did have to laugh, though, when the pediatrician, Patti, asked me if Michelle was putting together 2 or 3 word phrases yet.  Yes, she's been speaking in full sentences for months!

Here are a few things I've written on the calendar in 2012 pertaining to Michelle:
January 21st -- M loves to paint with water colors and do the Cheerios books
January 26th -- K changed M's diaper
February 10th -- M calls Minnie Mouse "Michelle's Mickey Mouse"
February 12th -- M counted to 13
March 23rd --M climbed up the scary ladder at the park all by herself (with K spotting)
April 3rd -- M is potty trained!
Helping Meigo smell the newly blossoming flowers.
Trying on her Easter headband.
Loving her birthday cards from Shannon & Gma Carlita & the bow Shannon made.
Pointing out the spring snow to her Jesse doll.

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