And what about this guy? He's two and a half! What a hoot!!
Into everything...
Here he is with the turtle MimMim and Pap caught for him. He named him "pickle pickle".
He can now say his "A,B,C's" with ease and can count to 14. He can also recognize and name a circle, square, triangle, star, and heart. He loves to dance, sing, "pose", and most of all, hit a ball. Doesn't matter with what. Baseball, basketball, golf, as long as it has a ball - he loves it. He's awesome with colors now and can pretty much name all of the "normal" ones.
Still a big fan of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, but also loves the Octonauts, Little "wise guys" (little einsteins), and lately Phineas and Ferb. He also really likes books. Particularly Cat in the Hat, Three Little Pigs, any book about tractors or trucks, and he has a set of mini mickey mouse books that he has to be read daily.
He really loves the pad (Ipad). He always wants to watch "Uncle Peco" (an old Tom and Jerry that Uncle Nathan introduced him to), and he likes to sing Eric Church's song "fingsteen" (Springsteen) and Gotye's "Somebody Kristen knows" (somebody I used to know).
He's gotten pretty good at saying Please and Thank you now. We've even gotten the comment, "what good manners!" a time or two lately.
He is #1 at drama. When he is upset, he can really put on a show. Drops his head and shoulders, puts on a big frown and droops off. When you tell him to do something that he doesn't want to do, he takes no pause before telling you, "I will NOT!" He is a rough houser like no other, and I have to keep a VERY watchful eye on him with Liam. He still really enjoys trying to smash him by laying on top of him. He has also learned to kick and punch... :( Whippins aren't all that uncommon at our house these days... Not that it's funny (but it kinda is), when he pushes/hits Liam and Liam starts crying, he puts his hand over Liam's mouth and says, "ssshh, sshhh, it's okay (looks at me), He's ok mom."
He has become a very very picky and sparse eater. What he loves: chicken nuggets, pizza, cheese, fruit snacks (for every meal preferably), popcorn, vanilla wafers, and most of all jelly beans and skittles. And suckers... But if you want him to have a WHOLE meal, you can take him to a mexican joint anyday and you're pretty much guaranteed to get him to eat chips and salsa and a taco.
He's in bed by 9-930 and sleeps till 730 or 8. He still takes a 2.5-3 hour nap during the day (please, Lord, let him keep napping!)
He's in a 3T everything, and wears an 8.5 shoe. We are successfully potty trained -- YAY!!! Even at night! We wear big boy underwear all the time now, and he tells us when he needs to go.
Fun Lincoln quotes:
When MimMim told him it was time for a nap: "Don't worry about dat, I'm Wincoln and I never EVER take naps!"
Passed a tractor on the road, wanted me to see it, yells, "Beep it up, mom!" (back up the car)
Picks up a bra from my bedroom and says, "Mom, look at dis boobytrap!"
We were fishing by the pond and found a dead turtle. He says, "Mom, it stinks! It poops a lot..."
While eating lunch, he gets down, and I tell him to get back to the table and eat. He says, "Nah. I gotta go to da gwoshwee (grocery). Don't worry bout me, Im in da toon car (red toy car)." He buzzes off for a minute, comes back and says, "i'm back, (pretending to hand me something) - would you like two corns and a biscuit?"
While shopping in Target, says, "I can have WHATEVER I want!" (Think he's been shopping with MimMim?)
When he's pooping, he tells me to get out, "I'm pooping!" Then he grunts and says, "It's coming, a big one!"
He's such a good kid (76% of the time) and I can pretty much take him anywhere and not worry about how he's going to act. I never have to put him in a stroller, which is awesome since that double stroller is a real jerk... And (despite the earlier reports) he actually minds really well.
These two boys are absolutely my world...
