Our guy will be two years old this week!!!  How is that possible??  As much as I deny it - he is totally boy now.  It's been so long since I wrote an update that don't know where to begin.  He's a full-blown talking and running little character who is SOOO sweet and SO much fun.  I just adore every bit of him.  You would think the "newness" would wear off or something - but I seriously still sit back and adore him just as much as I did on his very first day.  I can totally spend 30 minutes just silently watching him put together a jigsaw puzzle or fingerpaint.  And I still get the urge sometimes to want to wake him up after he goes to sleep (especially if Tyson came home really late and missed that evening).  What I love about his age now, is that he has such a love for life.  Every new activity is fun to him and he's very "go with the flow".  And I LOVE how he's completley and totally a miniature version of Tyson :).  He's super serious when doing something new or analyizing something in nature.  And he's all giggles and super sweet the rest of the time.  I LOVE THIS BOY!!!!!

Some things I don't want to forget....

• How he says "Hey!" in such a cute high pitched and happy voice
• The first time he actually turned around and walked back to me when I called after him...(after he learned to walk, Tyson and I tested it out - he really didn't care if we were following him...)
• How he looks at me and nods his head yes when he wants permission to do something
• How super sweet his "no" sounds (I don't know how long that will last!)
• How he runs to his cabinet to get his little knife anytime he sees the butter out
• If he's given an english muffin in the kitchen, he says "no no no" and carries it to the back porch to eat (I think Tyson started this tradition.)
• How he always asks for a blue straw when given a drink (the colored ikea straws)
• How he's "starving" the second he wakes up
• How he has never ending room for "more banana"
• The day he suddenly counted to into the high teens when pointing out bugs in a book (only counted up to three before that!)
• How the day after that - he suddenly counted to six in Spanish! (yea - it was a big two days)
• How excited he was to get a Mickey Mouse shirt and wouldn't let me take it off
• How he sings in his microphone
• How he dances to the programmed song in the keyboard
• The first time he drew something with a crayon and then told me what it was! 
• How he runs to his get his little sisscors whenever UPS comes to our door (yes, I order from Amazon way too much)
• Our routine of saying bye to Tyson every morning
• His excitement when Tyson gets home (a neighbor's repairman witnessed the welcome home greeting and told us he was nearly in tears watching)
• How he'll pretend to be Tyson and walk down the front walkway in Tyson's work shoes (all while signing "work" in sign language)
• How he requests two of everything
• The day he discovered he could request three of something and was quite proud
• How he randomly runs to the garage and asks for "bike ride bike ride" (loves going in the bike trailer)
• How he'll put on his helmet before getting in his Little Tikes car
• The day he woke me up in the morning and asked earnestly to "see caterpillars"

Right now I'm doing all the preparations for his party....and of course, my simple projects are turning out more involved than planned.  I'm really looking forward to the party though because he's definitely learned in the last twelve months what a party is!  We've been practicing saying "I'm 2!".  So far, I can't get him to say it after I say "How old are you?"...he just repeats what that line...O well - he has a few more years to get that down :).  Did I mention I LOVE THIS BOY!??!!