Hope you’re getting to relax and do a whole bunch of nothing today!
See you tomorrow! and, one more thing – Roll Tide! 🙂
Two Years!!
First, thank you for all the comments yesterday! It makes me so happy to hear from so many of you!!
Second, it’s official, I have a TWO YEAR OLD so I thought it would be good to wrap the week up with a full recap of what he’s up to. Maxwell is just so fun these days. He’s communicating more clearly every day and I just love hearing the fun and funny things that come out of his mouth. Just a few things about him right now that I want to remember….
He’s talking up a storm and learning new words every day. He knows red, green, blue, yellow and purple. He’s starting to make mini sentences – mainly starting with “me” like “me eat.” and even getting into 3 word phrases like “no puppies me.”
He still LOVES trucks. One of his favorite things on our walks is to go see the “lallow tucks” – all of the various yellow construction trucks in the neighborhood!
He still sleeps in a sleep sack and, lots of nights, fills it up with all the toys that he wants to have in the bed with him! His bed is always full of Nanner, Mr. Moo, two wooden yellow truck puzzle pieces and then at least 2 other plastic trucks. I don’t know how he doesn’t roll onto them in the night and wake himself up!
He continues to be a great sleeper. After our nightly routine of reading several books, turning off the lamp and turning on the Twilight Turtle (purple, lallow, purple, lallow), he’s in bed between 7:30 and 8:00 and wakes up around 7:00 in the morning. He’s still napping every day at 1:00 until about 4:00. yay! Let’s hope his baby brother is as good of a sleeper as he’s been!
Shhhh, the baby’s sleeping…
He’s still obsessed with shoes and wants to wear them all the time. He’s also still a big fan of his baseball cap – never puts up a fight about wearing that!
He’s definitely developed a little happy squeal – or maybe I should say scream – that he does when he’s really excited about something! It’s loud and hilarious! His other big reaction is to say “ooooooh” when I explain something to him. I love to hear that little “ooooooh” because that means whatever I said clicked in his head!
He still says “yea yea” for yes and it melts me. And he’s very good at saying “no”…especially when it comes to food! He’s learned ‘day and night’, as well as ‘above and below’ thanks to his Dinosaur Roar and Sandra Boynton Opposites book. He loves to say that things are “cuuuute!” and he also loves to tell me when he finds some dirt on the floor with a loud exclamation of “dirt dirt!”. Yea, I love that! 🙂 Most impressive? He can definitely tell you he’s TWO while holding up 5 fingers!!
While we’re not ready to potty train yet in my opinion, he is very good at telling me when he “pees” and needs a clean diaper. I’ll take that as a first step!
He gives awesome hugs and the sweetest kisses. If you don’t get one on the cheek, he’ll happily blow you a kiss!
I just love to see how he learns new things every day and picks up on what we’re telling him. He totally gets it and I can’t wait for his little vocabulary to catch up with his brain!
Now, on to some more shots of my two year old!
I have got to teach him to stop making this piggy face!!…
Happy two years sweet boy!
Whew! This has been a big week on the bloggy blog! Thanks for coming to visit and have a FANTASTIC long weekend!
Happy Birthday Maxwell!!
TWO!! How is my baby two years old already?! What a fun two years it has been.
Maxwell has gone from this tiny, helpless baby…
To this chubby cheeked, dimpled, curly headed, giggling 1 year old baby boy….
To this funny, chatty, energetic, sweet and happy, running around everywhere toddler!
I love him so much and am constantly amazed that he’s mine. I cannot wait to see what adventures we have together in the years to come!
Like last year on his birthday, I have one small request. Would you leave a comment wishing Maxwell a happy birthday?
If you cheered him on for his first day of school…
If you got a little inspiration….
If you enjoyed our continued adventures to the park…
If you got a kick out of his yummy Halloween costume and our Halloween parade...
If you caught the whirlwind 24 hour trip to Disney part 1 and part 2...
If you like a good game of peek-a-boo…
If you liked seeing the house all decorated for Christmas…
If you read about his first haircut…
If you wanted my lovebug to be your Valentine…
If you felt sorry for his little broken leg…
If you got excited about our big news…
If you thought this bunny was scary looking (I did too!)…
If you liked any of the Friday Favorites like these awesome shirts…
If this made you want to say “all aboard!”…
If you just liked to see him smile for the camera…
If you liked seeing us make new friends and visit old friends…
If you sang along to The Itsy Bitsy Spider…
If you found these Travel Tips useful…
If my Olympic swimmer made you laugh (and, really, how could he not?!)…
If you liked seeing us try to be models in the fall or summer…
Or if you just love this sweet little boy smiling or not...
Won’t you leave a comment and tell him Happy Birthday? You don’t have to say much – just “Happy Birthday!” or tell me your favorite post, picture or story. Or even just say hi! Whatever strikes your fancy. I’d love for him to know all of the fantastic readers that have been following his adventures over the past year! A big thanks from me to you!
Now, I’m off to spend the day with my sweet TWO YEAR OLD!!
First Day of School!
Monday was Maxwell’s first day of school and it went great! His new teacher, Ms. Juli, couldn’t be sweeter and I think he’s going to love his new class. As a reminder, click here to see some pictures of his first day of school last year. He’s grown a lot! Here he is ready for his first day this year…
Sweet boy!
Luckily we didn’t get any of this when I dropped him off…
He wasn’t quite so sure about going into a new room at first, but then he spotted the awesome train table and he couldn’t get out of my arms fast enough. I don’t even think he noticed I left! When I went to pick him up, he was the last one there! Oh no! Bad momma! I was still 5 minutes early but I guess everyone else just got there even earlier. whoops!
If you’re curious, we decided to go on and hold Maxwell back now instead of later. Being an August 30 birthday, he could have moved on up into the two year old class this year as the cut off is September 1st (meaning you have to turn two by September 1). However, Robert and I knew we didn’t want him to go into kindergarten in a few years as the very youngest so, instead of having to keep him in pre-school when he’s 5, we decided to go on and hold him back now so he’ll go through all of pre-school with the group of kids that he will go to kindergarten with. It was a tough decision as he’ll always be the very oldest in his class but I think it was the right one for us.
Here’s to a great year of school!
See you tomorrow on Maxwell’s BIRTHDAY!
More 2nd Birthday Party!
Continuing on with the 2nd birthday party coverage…
After a yummy hat-wearing lunch Maxwell got to open all of his super fun presents!
His first stop were the two packages from Mrs. Susan and let’s just say they were a HIT!
She got him some Superman pj’s with a detachable cape!! I think someone might have been a little jealous! 🙂
She also got him an AWESOME fire truck that lights up and makes fire truck noises. Maxwell LOVED it and had to go get his fireman hat immediately!
He got lots of other sweet and wonderful gifts from everyone like new clothes, Dr. Seuss books, a VTech computer, a giant sticker book, new toys for the sandbox, DVDs and even a ride on bumble bee! This little boy is fixed up in the toy department!!
After presents it was time for cake! I got the cake from Olexa’s again and it was worth every penny! yum!
Maxwell has been practicing blowing out his birthday candles for weeks now. He’s been so excited about it. I guess all the excitement was just a little too much though because when I came out with the lit candles and everyone was singing to him, his little face went from pure excitement to fear! He didn’t want those candles anywhere near him!
Poor buddy! I think it was all just a little overwhelming. After a little hug from Dad, he was doing much better…
We were happy to see a smile again!
I cut up the cake…and here’s my 32 week bump in all it’s glory if you’re curious!
While Maxwell didn’t want to blow out the candles on his cake, he sure did want to eat it!
I think everyone enjoyed the cake eating part of the party!
After lunch, the cousins played with the new sand toys in the sand box for a bit…
and then it was time to bounce off all of that cake!
Please note that picture in the middle of his face smooshed up against the black netting! cracks me up!
After lots of energy was spent, it was time to say “bye” to everyone!
Or maybe that’s actually more like “help!” 🙂 Either way, it was a GREAT day and we’re so happy that so much of our family could be there to celebrate the big TWO!
Maxwell, I hope you had the best birthday party a little boy could hope for. We love you so much and can’t wait for another year of adventures!!
Bring on the terrific two’s!!