When you ask me...

Dear Dominic,

When you are older and you ask me what you were like when you turned two, I will tell you that you were a very happy little boy. You filled our house with smiles and laughter. You loved to be tickled and couldn't get enough attention from your “Mama” and “Dada.”

Your talking had progressed so much by that point that you were attempting to string three, four and five words together and tried to repeat everything you heard. Your clarity was not quite always there yet and sometimes we had no clue what you were telling us, but we could generally figure it out most of the time.

When you turned two you were still small for your age, just finally fitting into 18 month sized clothes. However, that fact that you were so small and light, made you very nimble. You were like a little monkey, climbing on anything you possibly could!

You started to develop your imagination at this age and Mommy would catch you playing all by yourself and talking and telling stories even though no one else was around. You were very organized and liked to have things lined up in a certain way. You loved anything that could be driven, most especially your toy trains, cars and trucks. You also really loved to read and be read to. Whenever we drove in the car, you would try to help Mommy and Daddy out by blowing on the traffic light to make it turn green. You also loved to help us do whatever task we had at hand. “Dominic do” was a phrase we heard constantly signifying that you were big enough to do whatever it was all by yourself. You could identify all of the primary colors, could count to 10 on your own and did pretty well with your shapes too.

Right around the time that you turned two, you were really starting to get the hang of having manners and would say “please” sometimes, but were very good at remembering to say “thank you”.

Mommy and Daddy would also always get stopped by strangers who would tell us what a cute little boy you were. We’d also get tons of compliments on what a well behaved child you were.

When you ask me what you were like when you turned two, I will say that you were the light of my life and the reason that when things got tough, I could still take a minute and kiss you and hug you and laugh with you and I would know that everything would be all right!

Love,
Mommy