A is 2

Our house is a case study for Nature vs. Nurture.

This fall, my daughter A turned 2.  Where has the time has gone?

She is so much like me – always wanting to put things ‘back’ (phone to the cradle, covers on the tupperware, socks back her her drawer.)  I love watching her play with her dolls, imitating the way I talk to and care for her baby sister.  She loves to laugh, loves to cuddle, and loves to learn.

I laugh when people tell me she ‘looks just like me’ – as an adoptive mom, I know that looks aren’t what matter and have learned the hard way.

(Read secretly pleased that she shares my curly hair)…just another sign we were meant to be together.

Maybe she is just exhibiting the quinessential toddler behavior that thrives on order and routine.  Demanding to read the same bedtime story over and over and over.

Or maybe not.