Happy 2 1/2 birthday!

July 6, 2012

You are TWO AND A HALF! I can’t believe it. It’s crazy. It went by so fast.

You crack me up all the time. You are so funny and so full of life. You can be so intense and so gentle. You are going to be a big brother in a couple months. You talk about the baby. You ask if it’s “popped yet.” I am not sure what that means though.  You kiss the belly. It is really cute. You do not like to talk about sharing with the baby (or anyone else), though. 

In the past six months, you have grown so much. You talk well, you count, you recognize your colors (most of them) and letters. You love to do arts and crafts. You went to the recreation center and took a preschool type class and came home with a craft for me every Tuesday. It was great. You love to color, cut, glue, and play with playdough. You still love being outside and “riding” (more like us pushing you) on your bikes and toy truck. You are great with puzzles. You are getting so good at entertaining yourself. You will go to your books and pull them out and start reading them. 

You love your tools. You always want to help Daddy fix things around the house. He is working on making a big boy room for you and working on the baby’s room. You love to look in there and tell him to finish the rooms and want to “help.” You like to “fix” your toys when they “break.”

You still love the water. You were nervous when the first time you went in the pool this season because you weren’t sitting in your floaty. You now wear something that goes around your chest and arms. You didn’t want us to let go, but after 2 pool trips, you were okay with it.  You had a great time at the beach right before you turned 2 ½. You did not want to walk in the water by yourself though. You had a great time making sandcastles and digging in the sand with Daddy.

You still love fireworks. The loud noise does not bother you at all. You love when Poppie and Uncle Anthony set off small fireworks at Poppie’s house. You had a good time at the town’s fireworks display too, but you paid more attention to all the other kids than the fireworks.

Here are just some of the cute things you have said in the past few months:

In May, you woke up two days in a row asking for snow or wanting to build a snowman. You were not thrilled when I explained that there is no snow out in May (at least where we live).

You try to feed Elmo your food. Some days, he sits on the table and has pieces of food in his mouth.

You say, “I do MYSELF; I big boy!”  You say this about so many things.

You told me a story about your Vovo. You said he stuck tool in his eye; went to the doctor. Now he is blind. I cracked up. Turns out you had been told a story a while before that, when your vovo was young, he did get a tool or a stick in his eye and went to the doctor. He did not go blind. We think you picked that up because you’ve been told not to put things in your eyes or else you could go blind.

You made a stage and started singing into your microphone…VERY LOUDLY. If you are outside, you like to sing loudly too so our neighbors can hear how well you sing the “ABCs” and “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”

When we tell you to do something you do not want to do (pick up toys or come to the table to eat supper), you tell us, “I can’t; I busy.”

You make us laugh. You make us smile. Mommy and Daddy love you!