Cider Mill with Aunt Becky

Today Aunt Becky took you to the cider mill with some of your cousins. You really like playing with Joey and had a great time. Aunt Becky got some pictures too!

"I Naked, I Naked"

today when I picked you up from school your teacher, Ms. Lacee, had a funny story to tell me about you. Apparently you told her that you had to go to the bathroom and so you went into the classroom bathroom and got your pants and pull-ups off and then decided to take your shirt off as well. Then you ran into the classroom running around, shouting, "I naked, I naked!" Your teacher was laughing so hard and tried to sternly tell you to go back to the bathroom and put your clothes back on. But should couldn't say it without a smile. She said you were just too funny! Oh the things that a toddler does!

Riding Around

I just had to take a couple pictures of you riding your four wheeler. You have really gotten the hang of driving it and can steer it just where you want to go. And now even when you get stuck, you know how to get off and turn it around and hop back on! Whenever you can get outside this is your favorite thing to do!

New Room!

Your new room that you and Jacob are sharing is finished! You really seem to like playing in here and you are doing great sleeping in your new bed. Although you still keep calling the room Jakey's room and you still call the baby's room your room. I am sure in a few weeks you will be all adjusted though. I hope that you like your new room!

Big Boy Bed

Tonight you slept in your new big boy bed for the first time. It's the bottom of the bunk beds that you are sharing with your brother Jacob. You did great too! We did the same things we normally do before bedtime. Took a bath, got your jammies on, got some milk, gave kisses and hugs to daddy and Jacob and then off to your room. We read two books like always (and like always you asked to read more!). Then I layed with you for a few songs on the cd that I play for you each night. I kissed you good night and you said good night and I shut the door. I couldn't believe it was that easy, but it was. You fell right asleep and looked so cozy in that big bed. You did wake up once and called for me and daddy and daddy went to lay with you. But I think that you did great for your first night. I don't know that you are ready to give your crib up to the new baby that is coming, but I think that once it gets here you will be okay and well adjusted to sleeping in your new room and new bed.

A Day with Thomas

Okay, well it really wasn't a whole day, but it was a couple hours and you LOVED it! We went to Huckleberry Railroad to visit Thomas the Tank Engine. Thomas the Train is your favorite cartoon right now and you already have lots of Thomas the Train toys. You are being to learn all the names of the different engines too. So I got tickets and you, Daddy and me and went for a train ride on the real Thomas the Train! We talked about it for a couple days beforehand and you were very excited. And when you actually saw Thomas your face just light up. You couldn't believe how big he was! You kept saying, "big Thomas." You loved the train ride and went between Daddy and I to see different things. You always got some tattoos of Thomas and his friends and played with some of the Thomas toys they had set up there. You really had a great time there and if I would have known how much stuff they had to do there we would have been there longer, but there is always next year. Here are some pictures!

Splish, Splash, this is how I take my bath...

For the most part you LOVE bath time! You think you have your own little pool and really instead of taking a bath you splash and splash and jump and throw water! There are some days that more water ends up outside of the bath tub than in it! Your favorite thing to do is use your cups to dump the water out of the bath tub, and I put more and more towels down to soak up the water. Tonight I thought I would take some pictures of you in the bath. I put lots of bubbles in there and you were "cleaning" the walls of the tub!

Zoo Days

I got a Detroit Zoo pass for you and Grammy for this spring, summer and fall (really it's a year round pass, but I don't think that it will get much use in the winter). Today you guys went for your first trip together and you had so much fun. Grammy said you loved seeing all the animals and she even got you a new stuffed white tiger! I will add all the zoo pictures through the year to the link on the side named "Zoo Days".

Climing On Out

This morning was like most mornings; when you wake up I let you "talk" to yourself and stuffed animals in your crib for about twenty minutes before I go in and get you. Except for this morning when I went in to get you instead me lifting you out of your crib you swung your leg over the side bar, put your foot on the rocker next to your crib and climbed right out! You got this big smile on your face, like wow, that was pretty neat, I can get out of my crib by myself! I was really amazed that you waited until I got into your room to do this too. I don't plan to put you in your new big boy bed until the end of August when you start sharing a room with Jacob. So hopefully you will think that you can only climb out of your crib when I get in the room and not beforehand.

Two Years... (too fast)

Today you turn two. WOW! I can't believe that you are two already, I know I have said that so many times. When you turned one month, seven months, one year, just the other day. I always am saying how fast you are growing and how big you are getting, but you really are! Now you are learning so many new things, the world is your playground and you are defiantly exploring as much of it as you can. Two years ago you had just entered this world and I had to do everything for you. Now there isn't much that you want me to do for you. You couldn't feed yourself, now it's an insult if I dare try and feed you or help you eat. A year ago I had to dress you and changed your diaper 100 times a day (okay not really that many times, but it seemed like it!), today you can almost get yourself undressed and you have started using the big potty. There are so many countless things that you have learned to do in the past years, that it really just amazes me. Even simple things - last night you wanted your lawn mover and your big box of legos in the living room. And you didn't want to make two trips. All by yourself, you figured out to put your lawn mover on top on the lego box and push it into the living room. I am really just amazed already at how smart you are and how you have figured out to do all these things.

I love that you are getting bigger and doing things on your own, but I am also sad at the same time. I am loosing the little baby you use to be, I miss being able to hold you all the time. But all the kisses and hugs you give me now all the time are priceless and I wouldn't trade them for the world. I love the way you laugh now and scream when you are happy. I love how excited you get to see something and how you run to get it. I love how you hide around the corners of the house and peek out at me and then hide back. I love it when I think that you are handing me something, just to have you pull it back, and you know that you are teasing me. You are such a happy little boy, there isn't two minutes that go by that I don't think there isn't a smile on your face. You love life and I love that about you. So it's okay that you are getting bigger, but just know that you will always be my little baby.