Happy 2nd Birthday Kaitlyn!

This morning as I woke up, I looked at the clock and saw 6:30am, and thought, hey, 2 year ago this day, this time, I was being wheeled into the Operating Theatre, about to become a mother for the first time...

It's incredible, that my baby girl is TWO years old today. We shall now stop counting her age in months, and start counting in YEARS!

Being a mother is difficult, for me anyways. But everyday, I am grateful that I have my children. They never cease to amaze me each day, with their little personalities, and little/big achievements/developments. It makes everything all better when Kaitlyn runs up to me and hugs me, and when Max stares at me with those deep thoughtful looking grey eyes.

With Kaitlyn, it really was love at first sight. I remember the first night at the hospital as I held her in my arms, the world melted away and nothing else appeared to matter anymore, and at that moment, I thought, now, THIS IS CONTENTMENT. That moment, just she and I, and that moment, even though I knew that there will be many challenges ahead, I knew what love really was. I knew that this love will only get stronger with time, no matter what happens.

I remember the first time she smiled at me... it was in the middle of the night... she had been fussing all night. Then out of the blue, she smiled, looking right AT me, smiled. It was one of those "awww" moments...

The first time she rolled, I missed it, and she rolled off the chair and we rushed to ER as I feared possible head injuries... LOL ah, first time mothers...

I am not sure what her first word was, all I know was, all of a sudden, she was talking. Not just the baby babble, but she was saying actual WORDS and quite a number of them, around 10 or 11 months.

She never learned to crawl, and went straight to walking. The first time she took 3 steps on her own, everyone was so very excited, she got scared by all the cheering and clapping.

Ah, memory lane...

Now, she just started to say "why not?" and says all the time when we tell her to not do something or not go somewhere. She has quite a temper, well, she probably got that from me... Yesterday morning, I was feeding her breakfast, and she wanted something else, and I wouldn't give it to her. She threw a tantrum and cried. I told her, you can keep crying, but mummy is not going to give you . She gave me a death stare, and turned her face away stubbornly and wouldn't look at me. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I clearly remember myself doing that exact same thing for years. LOL ah, I knew karma would get to me... if karma has its way, the teenage years will surely be h3ll for us...

She talks a lot, serious, this girl talks too much... It's funny to listen to her talk to herself when she's put to bed. She says everything she thinks, out loud, sometimes for hours, literally. Random thoughts being babbled out. One minute she's telling her pillow bear to sleep, next she's talking about grandpa taking her to play on the slides... I should tape it one day and keep it for her 21st birthday... She has an amazing imagination, she makes up songs, tells herself stories and does lots of pretending plays with her stuff toys and her doll.

She sings ABC, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and bits of Old McDonald has a Farm, as well as quite a number of Chinese rhymes. She doesn't carry tune very well though, but still cute when she does it.

She's a good helper with Max. She helps out when we change his nappy by bringing the supplies and she keeps him entertained when I bring him downstairs.

Her toilet training had stopped. :( She sees Max being changed, she also wants to be changed. She will take her doll to the toilet and go through the whole routine, but she wouldn't go to the toilet herself. It's frustrating. I guess we will have 2 kids in nappies for a while...

We didn't do much for her birthday this year. We went to yum cha, just the family. We will give Kaitlyn the birthday toys gradually over the next month or so. I need to clear out some of her old toys first. Our living room is becoming way too cluttered with her mountains of toys...

So, people say that the height a kid is at 2 years old will be half the height she will be as an adult? Well, Kaitlyni s roughly 85cm tonight, does that mean she will be 170cm fully grown? That's not bad, considering I am only so very tiny. Hopefully the other side of the gene pool wins out here...

We got her some tiny cupcakes, and she chose a pink one. She likes pink. :) We put 2 candles on it and asked her to blow it, but she got a bit too close to the flame and got scared, and then wouldn't go anywhere near the candles, so I had to help her blow it out. She did enjoy her cake though :)

Anyways, happy birthday my precious baby girl. Mummy loves you very much.