Calista is two!
What can I say to describe her??? There is so much! That is it actually. Calista has so much life squeezed into her tiny body. She has the energy and passion of three people put together.
Calista is nonstop all day, except for nap time, and that can be difficult because she is into everything! We had to put a lock on our pantry door to stop her from dumping flour all over the house. It didn't help much though because she finds plenty to get into. It is like the toilet is her personal splash pad. She especially loves dunking whole rolls of toilet paper into the toilet and then carrying them around the house drenching literally everything. She dumped out an entire bag of powdered sugar around our house and we have been sticky for the past few days. We've moped a total of four times but the stickiness just seems to stick around. The sad thing about it is that this isn't her first time dumping the powdered sugar around.
Calista really needs 24 hour supervision, which is difficult when you are a mom of six children. Good thing she has lots of older siblings to help out. I'm sure God sent her to us after the four others for this exact reason.
Calista loves, candy, mints, sugar, marshmallows, and did I mention sugar? Seriously, it is a problem. She refuses to eat normal food half the time and goes around starving until she can get her hands on something sweet. She will push a chair all the way to the pantry, if we accidentally leave it unlocked and help her self to a bag of chocolate chips. And then cry like she is loosing her arm when we take it away.
Calista also loves her dad. She is so excited for him to come home everyday. I can't really figure it out. I am with her all day. She was pretty much attached to me for the first 18 months of her life. Yet she wakes up every morning in her crib and shouts "daddy, daddy, daddy," until I come and get her. Sometimes when I can't get her to calm down I will show her a picture of Bob and we we will say, "where's dad?" and look around for him with our shoulders shrugged. Then we conclude that he is at work. It usually calms her down for a couple minutes. Sometimes we have to call Bob so she can facetime with him on the phone.
Calista also loves Beatrix! She is so happy to have a baby. She isn't quiet and will scream "BABY!" right in Beatrix's face making her cry, but she really does love her. She is always trying to hold her, or lift up her shirt to feed her.
I'm so glad we get to have Calista in our family. She brings a lot of joy, among other emotions, to all of us.
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