Before he was 2

In just a few weeks my little guy will be 2! I wanted to take a few minutes to capture all of the things that he is doing and enjoying now before we reach the milestone.

- He loves to talk and can now remember what he did at school and tell us about his day - including sometimes confessing to things like pushing or pinching someone.

-He has long since been speaking in complete sentences, and uses words and phrases like "I don't have any milk either?" "Mommy, Emma is silly" "That is awesome" "Oh! (as if surprised by something) Thank you Mommy!" "What's wrong? Oh, you happy now" "I have to tinkle in the potty".

-Speaking of potty, randomly he will tell us that he has to go and he has a few times, other times we have been slow to get the seat set up and he will go in his diaper. Most days he doesn't give it a second thought.

-He loves trains, loves loves loves! And he has several of the Wooden Thomas Railway collection. He is also a big "Cars" fan and right now his obsession is a metal John Deere tractor.

- He has gotten very into coloring pictures, we have his little tikes picnic table inside and we keep it in the upstairs living room and usually when we are working in the kitchen he is busy working on a piece of art.

-He still loves books. We just added Llama, llama, red pjama to the bed time routine.

-He has started calling this baby doll we have "baby seeester" I did not tell him to say this....but I think it is super cute.

-His fave foods right now are - Chicken, cheese, grapes, any kind of berry, whole apples so he can take bites like a big boy, pickles and eggs with cheese and sausage. When we take him out to dinner we give him 2 or 3 choices and he chooses for himself and eats it! Including a plate of broccoli just a couple of weeks ago.

-He likes to sing and do Yoga. I can take very little (no) credit for the lader. They do Yoga at his preschool and the posses he can hold are quite amazing and too funny. As for songs, he will bust out the ABC's, Bob the Builder, Twinkle Twinkle, etc at the most random times.

- Once and a while he busts out with a "Love you". The other day when we were driving home from school I asked him "Rece, do you love daddy?" He smiled and said "Yeah" then I said "Rece do you love Emma?" He smiled again and said "Yeah" . Then I asked "Rece do you love Mommy" and He said - "I want to go to the car wash"

The kid cracks.me.up. And I love that. Love you little monkey man.