Two years old seems interesting

I never thought I would be the kind of person who wrote a blog about her kid, but like everything else, Piper changed that. I figure we'll have a small audience for this blog - people who already love Piper and want to read everything there is to know about her (my parents, her godmother, and an assortment of her 10 aunts and uncles), people who find me mildly amusing (me, um, maybe my parents, me) and parents who have kids the same age and are reading this to secretly compare their kids' mental development and general demeanor to Piper's. Trust me, I get it and you are in luck, because I am the most neurotic and paranoid parent you're likely to find on a quick Google search. I asked Piper's grandparents on a recent visit if they liked her...and I meant it, not because they act like they don't, but because I think it's a real possibility. Unlike a lot of parents I know who think their kid is perfect, I'm constantly on the lookout for what's wrong with Piper. So far, I'm pretty sure she's in serious trouble because she likes to wash her hands about 40x a day; can only identify the color yellow; can count from 6-11, but adamently refuses to say the number 4 and when asked what comes after 3 says "yellow;" begins almost every word with the letter M; and has questionable shape recognition . And those are just off the top of my head. So, competitive parents, have at it. My most important audience, however, is Piper. I hope that she'll read this one day and realize that even if she still can't identify a square or say that an apple is goddamn RED she'll know that she has always been the most important and inspiring person in her parents' lives. She'll likely resent the fact that I waited more than 2 years into her life to start chronicling it, if she ever forgives me for doing this at all, but I'll admit, I've been exhausted for the last 2 years and she didn't get really interesting until she started talking anyway.