This week we celebrated Daphne’s second birthday. She has a bit of a Hello Kitty obsession so
we had a Hello Kitty birthday party for her.
As a two year old, Daphne is delightfully
determined! In a less charitable mood I
would call her a little dictator. She is
extremely opinionated on what she wears.
It is very difficult to get her to wear anything without an animal on
it. I was very happy to find a cute new
outfit for Easter that had a Pegasus on it.
For some reason even choosing her pajamas in the evening requires a
couple of different choices until she finally settles on one.
She is very much a girly-girl. She loves to comb her hair, unfortunately she
will not let me put accessories in it.
Makeup is never safe around her. Its
not uncommon to see a big smear of concealer under her eyes or on Hello Kitty’s
face.
She is also very difficult to keep contained in a
stroller. We rarely use one these
days. But that does mean she will try to
run off on adventures of her own. If I
pick her up to get her going in the correct direction, her usual response is an
ear-piercing scream! She loves to
scream. She did this in front of a
police officer when we were walking through WEM and I was worried he might
think I was kidnapping her! She has also
embarrassed me in Costco with her scream.
For some reason I had used the word “scream” in conversation with Rowan
while both girls were sitting in the cart and she sure was listening. She screamed automatically when I spoke the
word. She is also developing quite the
sense of humour. The other day when I
was playing with Rowan and Daphne and they were being quite hyper, I said “I
think you girls need to chill out.” And
with a big smile on her face, Daphne screamed as loud as she could. As if it say “How’s this for chilling out!” I have a hard time not finding all of this
extremely adorable.
Another bad habit is pushing chairs all around the kitchen to reach whatever she would like. She sure likes to get involved in cooking dinner.
She is also a very reluctant sleeper. She loves to draw out bedtimes by doing the cutest things. Sometimes she goes over her entire vocabulary, including animal sounds, before bed. Sometimes she insists on offering me her "suckie" repeatedly. Sometimes she even goes so far as to kiss each one of her toes goodnight before bed! I always put the girls to bed at the same time and we snuggle up on the bottom bunk, just to tease her Brad always tries to give just the girls goodnight kisses, but Daphne never lets him get away with that. He has to give mommy her goodnight kiss as well.
Daphne also has a super sweet side. She loves holding hands with Rowan and
laughing at her sister’s antics. She
loves giving hugs and kisses to all her friends and family. Mommy seems to get the most kisses! She also loves her stuffies. She gives them kisses, tucks them in, carries
them around. Her favourite night-time
stuffie is a stuffed octopus we call Ockie.
She also loves her pink Hello Kitty we let her build at
Build-A-Bear. It’s her transplant
buddy. Instead of putting the heart in
it when they stuff it, we put a liver in it I had made at home. Rowan picked out the dress for Daphne's new Hello Kitty stuffie.
Daphne also loves coffee.
She loves any kind of coffee or cappuccino ice cream. She always tries to steal my coffee and loves
when I let her finish the last sip.
Puddle jumping is something she has discovered
recently. She loves it, and is so happy
any time we pull out her rubber boots. We have all been cooped up long enough, all of us are eager for all the snow to melt and spend time outdoors again.
Medically she is doing well. Currently we are on our longest run out of
the hospital with her! After her
transplant discharge she was on 15 different meds. Now they are down to 5. None of which are injections. She is on monthly bloodwork, monthly
transplant clinic appointments, and monthly paediatrician appointments. And a very recent development is that Daphne
is tube free! She has been tube free for
a few weeks now. That means she is taking
her meds all orally now. She has her
grumpy moments where she is not happy to take them, but for the most part she
does great with them. And luckily for us
the most important one, tacrolimus, is her favourite!
Well, this post was all about what Daphne is like now that she is two. We are so thankful for her everyday. I always say to her "Are you Mommy's little angel?" She usually replies by nodding her head. I'll end with a very poorly shot "Birthday interview video" of the girls.
