He's Two! Can you believe it?

So our son turned two last week. I thought you would like to see some pictures.

Hospital pictures... not taken by Charlie I might add. We didn't have our cool camera at this time.

Look at those lips....

His dark hair... That 's the first thing I asked about him... does he have the red headed curse? Nope not this one.

He still likes to sleep like this!

Now the one year old.

Yes he was walking/running. Yes he has a mouth full of teeth!!! And yes we start them early around here liking Thomas the Train.

And now the cute Two year old.
Please notice he has hair in this picture and still a mouth full of teeth! Dad asked him to show him a smile and this is what he got.

He's BAAAA-AAAACK

Please notice my son's face....

He is happy, slightly mischievous,

All around good looking guy if I do say so my self.

Now please look at my son's face after experimenting with Magic Bubbles. You know those colored bubbles that are "washable". He got them for his birthday from one of his good buddies. Oh he loved them.... He wanted to blow them so bad, so of course I let him try. I gave him a wand with the bubbles on it and went in to start cleaning myself off and I come back out and my son looks like

the Joker off Batman. Well that's how my husband described it...

I just thought the out come was hilarious!

Please ignore that my son has no pants on. Luckily the shirt is long enough to cover everything.

First Birthday....

So since I didn't start blogging until just recently, you probably haven't seen any pictures of little dude's first birthday.

Here's the cake:

Yes it's a block, with his name on it, one letter on each side. My sister-in-law made it. Didn't she do an amazing job?!!!

And since one year olds don't know how to blow out candles...
here's the mommy coming in to help.

Please notice the face of my son... he is not quite sure what in the world this thing is infront of him. And it took us a few tries, getting him to taste it, and then putting his hands in it before we got this:

Do you see the love on this child's face? It's like he's saying "oh thank you so much for introducing me to this lovely tasting thing. It has changed my life." He's a boy after his momma's heart.

Yes we even got:

There are lots of pictures of my kid feeding his face, but I'll spare you the drama and show you the end result:

It was all over by the way!!! On him, the chair, the table, the floor, the wall behind him... on momma...

Even after we took it away...

Yes it was priceless. None of it posed... or planned, just pure joy of eating cake...

Let's just say we promptly gave him a bath after words...

Here's what's been going on at our house lately...

So my son is big on trains lately... before he got his trains he would line his cars up like trains and scoot them everywhere. But now we have more than one train with little magnetic links and so he lines them up and they go everywhere!!!

So I've been cleaning out things, getting ready for baby number two to grace us with her presence, and my son of course is following me everywhere I go, "helping"... he's a really good "helper" generally. I was cleaning out Nathan's shelves for extra bin storage, and he found a little metal hook that you use for picture frames (and who know what else you may want to hang on the wall) in something or other and took it too his trains and started playing with it... because you know that trains hook together, right? I don't know how he figured this out because I walked in on the middle of this (because he was being oh so quiet... you know what that means...). He had figured out that the magnet would pick up the hook on one side then he would slide the next train right behind and the magnet of the second train would pick up the other side of the hook and the trains were hooked together and he could pull them all over. Once I saw this I added paper clips to his play and we ended up with:

The two "hooks" together didn't work as well, but he could "hook" all three of his trains and the tender together and it became a super long train.... Lets just say he was in heaven.

He played like this all day long!!! I'm not even joking! And that's a long time for a two year old to be interested in something!

Nice eye hand coordination, fine motor skills being developed here! (there's the teacher in me talking)

He's got the hook in the front of the train and is pulling the train using the hook.

Isn't he so cute????

I took these pictures by the way... once in a while even I get good shots.