The Little People and Us: Guess Who is Two?!

May 8th, 2010

Really? Really???

Has it been two years already that this miracle boy blessed our family with his sweet little spirit?! Two years have passed and he is now turning into such a fun little boy. Definitely opinionated and learning how to test limits, but oh so cute nonetheless.

He is 100% boy and loves to play outside. You can hear a wimper from the back seat as we drive by any park....he loves to play at the park - the summer heat will be rough on this kiddo! He loves to wear shoes and loves for anyone else in the house to wear shoes. He woke up from his nap the other day sad...and all he could say was "shoe". Apparently he did not like napping without shoes - silly kid.

His talking is coming along slowly but surely. I don't push these things too hard...things like crawling, walking and talking. I figure they will do them soon enough and there is no stopping them once it starts! Some of his words are "mama, dada, baba, ball, football, basketball, milk, cookie/cracker (coo coo), please (beep), up, school, Andrew, did it (learned this from Drew's potty training), hot, one, two, wow wow (wow wow wubzy), bob bob (sponge bob), choo choo, shoe, animal sounds (cat, dog, cow, monkey, snake, bird, duck) and possibly a few other words.

Carter's birthday landed on the same day as the baby shower.....but we tried to make it a special day anyway. He spent the morning with daddy out and about and enjoyed some Orange Julius which he apparently inhaled! I managed to sneak away during nap time to get his gifts. For dinner we have a favorite of his....pizza - he can eat so much pizza! Drew even put down two pizza crusts - so impressive!

I had high hopes of making a train cake, but as I attempted to assemble the cake verging on 8:00 that night I realized the cake was too soft and would have needed to be frozen or refrigerated to work, so I settled for a very moist, slightly messy, but oh so tasty square cake with rainbow sprinkles. Carter didn't mind.

He was very excited about the candles!

I just love the way he blows. He sticks out his bottom lip and kinda blows upwards. Insanely cute, but not efficient in blowing out candles so I had to help.

He loves eating utensils these days. When I give them dry cereal in a bowl for snack he has to run off to the kitchen to fetch a too big for him spoon to eat his cereal. Adorable.

He likes to say "cheese" for the camera these days. Makes for cheesier pictures, but still cute!

I don't have a picture of the final product, but this child was MESSY!!! He thoroughly enjoyed his birthday cake.

Drew even spent some time picking the sprinkles off the cake and licking a bit of icing.

I think Carter got more presents than he does at Christmas....and Drew lucked out too. I ended up getting some extra things for Drew and so did Grammy. I was so grateful since he has been having a hard time with all the change. The morning was spent with presents for mommy and Maylee and then the night was filled with presents for Carter. It helped him make it through with a few for him too!

Drew was very excited about his Buzz Lightyear jammies!