2 Year Stats

I feel like people are constantly asking "is he big for his age?" so I was very curious to see how Frankie measured up at his 2 year appointment.  Turns out he's pretty spot-on average across the board:

Height: 34.5" (50th percentile)

Weight: 29.2 lbs (65th percentile)

Head: 19.5" (71th percentile)

At 2 years old, Frankie can talk.  Not little phrases either - like full, 8 word sentences.  And sometimes he can be pretty amusing with the lines he comes up with.  Out of the blue he'll blurt out "Grammy likes donuts" or one of my least favorites, "Mommy fart" - which #1: I would much rather him say "toot" (thanks, Daddy) and #2: No, I didn't!  We were leaving Starbucks the other day and he started yelling it.  In the grocery store parking garage where everything seems to echo, at the top of his lungs, he yelled it.  He obviously enjoys my reaction, but come on! 

At his appointment this morning, he showed off by telling the doctor "I wanna put my socks back on".  (She took them off to look at his feet to assure us we didn't need to be worried about his feet turning in when he walks.)  He impresses me a lot of times, too (but hey - I'm the mom!) - like the other day when we sang the ABC's together:

(He's more focused and spot-on when he's not shoveling apple sauce into his mouth.)

 



About a month ago, I thought I had noticed Frankie's top 2-year molars and the doctor confirmed that they were in - which is apparently on the early side.  I was trying to think back to correlate a period where he was super cranky which would account for his molars breaking through, and I suspect it was around August when he was having a tougher time sleeping.  It wasn't horrible though, so I'm hopeful that when the bottom ones decide to pop out, it won't be too bad either.

 

Within the past two months, Frankie has become very interested in the potty and especially gets a kick out of seeing Mommy & Daddy go potty.  He's right there to lend a helping hand and flush the toilet for us and the other day even offered to "wipe mommy's hiney" (don't worry - I didn't let him).  Frankie's had one successful pee-pee on the potty - but so far, it's more for fun and to get him used to the concept.  I have no desire to push to try to get him potty trained before Baby D2 arrives. 

 

Watching "garbage truck" on the potty

Frankie's a very active little boy and would spend all day outside if he could.  Overall, he has an extremely happy disposition, which I'm hoping doesn't change now that he's hit the 2 mark!