2 years old!

A couple of weeks ago my little man turned 2!! He is SO much fun these days and Nate and I constantly talk about how we don't want him to get any older. His vocabulary has really picked up and he is learning all sorts of new words, he surprises me daily with a new word that I had no idea he knew! Today he was jumping in the pantry saying, "Mommy reach!" I just looked at him and thought - when did you learn reach and how in the world did you know what context to use it in? It is amazing what they pick up from you! I made him blueberry pankcakes for his birthday breakfast...clearly not impressed!

Then he got to open a couple of presents that day from us and the rest we waited to open until his family birthday party the next day! He LOVES spiderman!

We also took him to the Big Orange Pumpkin Farm in Celina on his birthday and besides having to sit in the pumpkins for pictures he loved it! I would highly recommend it for everyone! They had a petting zoo, hay ride, train ride, lunch and pumpkins - we spent a couple of hours there and he probably could have stayed longer if it wasn't nearing nap time!

He aslo got a Little Tikes car from TP and Posh and LOVES it! Probably his favorite gift overall. He calls it his "Elmo Car" because it is red and has big eyes on the front. I can see how it looks a little like Elmo! :)

Some things I want to remember about him at this age...

- At his 2 year apt he was 29.7 lbs and 34 1/4 inches.

- He LOVES Elmo (Melmo), Dora (Dor Dor), and Diego (Ga Ga) and would spend a lot of his time watching them if we let him!

- He LOVES to go watch Nate play basketball and asks daily if we are going to go "Watch Daddy Shoot Ball."

- He loves to watch football (bootball) or baseball (ba ball) with Nate while eating popcorn.

- He is really into many sports and if we go to the playground would rather shoot the basketball (he is lucky that his dad is 6'4'' and can lift him to the goal) or kick the soccer ball (cocerball) instead of actually play on the playground.

- He doesn't like chocolate at all and won't eat much cake, icecream or cookies but LOVES candy like skittles and gummy worms.

- He was diagnosed with asthma this month and has to take an inhaler morning and night which he calls his "orange nana" or orange medicine.

- He knows some of his colors - green, blue, red, orange, purple, and pink.

- He can count to 5.

- He repeats many of the things we say. For example, Nate was watching the Rangers the other day and said "Come on Cliff!" and Pierson said it right back! Makes you think twice before you say something.

- He really loves Bentley (Bent-ben), unless he has food and she is trying to snatch it.

- One of his favorite things to do is play upstairs with his Daddy and every night after dinner he looks at Nate and says, "Daddy all done. Come on Daddy, upstairs."

- He loves to have donuts (nonuts) and mil for breakfast. Here he is wearing his football shirt and just learned how to say Gigem Aggies!

- He goes to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays but is very attached to his momma and still cries every time I drop him off. He does this at church too. When we take the exit for school I can usually hear, "No, school!" in the back of the car.

- He loves to help daddy build and take apart things. This has been happening a lot in our house since we moved him to his big boy bed and moved all the baby furniture into baby girls room.

- And, last he will be spiderman for Halloween this year. Here he is showing us his muscles.

Pierson, we love you so much and can't believe how big you are! You are such as joy to our lives and make us laugh all the time! We can't imagine life without you and know you are going to be a wonderful big brother!