Dear Luna Mae, 

You are a wonder and almost 22 months old! We sing "Happy Almost Second Birthday" at the park when we are making our sandcakes in the mornings. You are a creative in every way possible. You can make any of your toys or the simplest object come alive with just a little imagination. You turn tupperware into boats and cabinets into play ovens. You need very little to make you happy. You also LOVE babies. You love playing baby, making the baby "fake cry", feeding your baby dolls and hugging your baby dolls. You sometimes even give them showers. You say "Okay baby. Time to sit on your bum bum." We are excited for you to meet your new "real" baby cousin because we know you will fall in love completely!

You are wise beyond your years in terms of your emotions. You go up to the chart we made for you at home and point to "sad Henry" when you are upset or "Mad Sally" when you are angry and you can articulate exactly why you are feeling that way. You also notice immedietely when someone else is joyful or sorrowful in public and are the first to call it out. You notice every piece of rock, dirt and speck of glitter in the sand as your attention to detail continues to amaze us over time!

You are FULL OF JOY. You love your routine of waking up, book time with mom or dad and then shower and craft/art time. You eat breakfast and then are ready to lace up your shoes to spend two beautiful hours outdoors either on a long long walk collecting pine cones or rocks or heading straight to the park to be with all of your friends that hang out from 9:00-11:00 AM before lunch. You are very social and you love seeing your friends (new and old) at the park and playing with them. 

You have done an amazing job with your sleep as of late. We were so hesitant to move you to a one nap schedule and there are days where at 11:00 I give you a little spray with a bottle to keep you awake, the 12:00-2:20PM down time has been wonderful for you. We no longer have to cap your naps in the mornings or in the afternoon and the one long nap you wake up very happy from with minimal tears! You never fight us on sleep and go to bed promptly after our bedtime routine of family pictures and then three books, on last glass of milk and then Daniel Tiger songs brush your teeth jingle to clean our teeth. You sleep now from 7:20 PM-5:32 on the dot. You know that you can only call for mom when Fonzi (your new clock) turn green and not red. You love the schedule of the colors and we will slowly move it back by 5 minute increments/with daylight savings time we are hoping for a 8:15PM-6:32 wakeup instead which would be awesome too! Either way, we think that 10 hours at night is a HUGE success and no night wakings right now, so we will take it!

We are proud of your ability to ask for help when a little frustrated, to share with Eva and your friends and to also realize that the "water is everyone's water." After reading a fable about a Crocodile who tried to keep the water for himself, you finally understood that our toys can be other people's toys and sharing is caring-even though it can be hard sometimes. We are a master at the patience patience wait wait wait song and of course "when you get so mad and you want to roar take a deep breath and count to four 1234." You LOVE singing all of the nursury rhyme songs and right now you think Humpty Dumpty is the most hilarous nursury rhyme you have ever read. 

You love visiting the library to get new books or to go to storytime and you really get into the music that is playing there as well. You are spunky and adorable and your dimples get larger with every new day! We are thankful for you, your laughte,r your wisdom, your insightfulness, your love of "fixing things" and so much more. You continue to find joy in M&M's (occasionally), pooping, any and all food (you are the greatest eater we have ever seen) and all of your extended family members whom you talk about daily. You laugh hard and love fiercely. 

Love to you our little moon who is growing up too fast! It is hard to believe you are almost two years old!

With Love, 

Mama and Baba