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November 19 and 25, 2005

She’s 3

We had a kid birthday party for Kaley last weekend, the theme of which was ’shapes and colors’. Cake, ice cream, presents, and games were the order of the day. Also in this gallery are pictures of Kaley on her actual birthday, the day after Thanksgiving this year, when we were at Me-Meres house.

The Terrible Two’s?
While the age of two is usually called the ‘terrible twos’, the time between 2 and 3 was when Kaley underwent an amazing transformation from baby to an independent communicative toddler. This ia an amazing time of language development where they start off with perhaps a couple words at the age of two, and by 3 they have an extensive vocabulary and talking in complete sentences. Kaley continually uses words that I wonder where she learned them from. She knows colors, shapes, can count by rote to 20, and can actually count things to 3 or 4. It’s amazing how far she’s come in a single year.

Potty training is another big devlepmental milestone and I cannot stress this enough…take your time and you will have less problems in the long run. We waited until Kaley was showing an interest, about 2 and a half. In about a month she was fully potty trained. The terrible two’s are present in all children I’ve ever met - referring to the tendency of them throwing tantrums and the difficulty in communicating with them. Encourage them to use words and don’t respond to communication via whining, or tantrums. But perhaps we just had it easy. Despite the occasional difficulty I am looking forward to watching Maizy through her two’s and am curious what the similarities and differences will be.

by matt on November 28, 2005 @ 11:31 pm Filed under Galleries, Kaley