Mommy and Me...(with Daddy too!): He's Two!

December 29th, 2013, marked an important event in our family:

Isaiah turned TWO!

It meant that we had been parents for two whole years. Two years of sometimes just barely surviving and sometimes fully thriving, but yet always full of laughter, amazement, delight, love, frustration, uncertainty, joy, exhaustion, and pure wonderment that God entrusted us to raise this precious, beautiful boy, Isaiah.

At two years old....

Isaiah is into hot wheel cars, trains, reading books, being outside, running, helping his daddy work, tools, Pooh and Tigger, and more than anything else - animals! He loves especially loves the domestic and farm animals.

He still loves to eat. He's super big into dipping...almost anything is edible to him (even if he doesn't like it) if there is something to dip it in! He is very fond of mustard and hummus, loves his vegetables and fruits, dairy products, and Mexican food of almost any variety.

He sleeps almost 12 hours every night, with a 1 1/2- 2 hr nap in the afternoon. He is usually very good at going right to sleep, although the past two days he discovered that a light switch to his room is above his bed, that he can reach it, and that he would rather turn the light on and off multiple times than go to sleep....I took out the bulb this afternoon.

He loves to laugh and giggle. He is also starting to very much like getting his own way, so we are having a fair amount of melt-downs and tantrums each day. They are not a fun part of the day, but it comes with the territory of having a two year old, I suppose.

He is extremely observant to his surroundings, and I am continually amazed at the way he connect different situations together, or the itty bitty things he notices and remembers.

Happy Birthday, buddy. We love you!

We got to spend the day with my sister and her children. Her little boy, Brody, is only 11 days younger than Isaiah, so it was fun to celebrate their birthdays together!