Life of a 2 year old boy...and his dog.

My latest completed project, that I started oh, sometime this summer as I was collecting old yard sticks I could find at garage sales. So it's like a piece of history, but functional. If you know me I don't have much use for things without function. S is quite the helper and he loved this project, probably because it was like playing with lots of swords until I finally got it together. Now he just uses my knitting needles as swords, and bats, and drumsticks.
His first black eye...mean kids. Just kidding, it was of course from his best friend Chile (the dog).

The delights of paint, "it looks great on the paper I bet it would look even better on my belly!" The brush was used for a short period of time, haha.

Despite the negative consequences he receives, he continues to play in the dog's water, and takes many of his toys for a swim therein. Here is bunny soaked and ready for the washing machine.

Chile has to get in as many photos as possible :) A boy loves his boxes, and this one is the perfect size for him to fold himself up inside. Hours of fun.

This is the typical scene in the kitchen as I'm cooking dinner...two creatures crawling around under my feet. And what fun would it be without a collander on your head?

As he is such a great helper in the kitchen, he must inspect, take inventory,and rearrange his ingredients. He frequently brings me a can of pineapple or peas and says "eat". I haven't openned a can for him yet, they are more fun unopenned as he can then continue to play with them.

As for other news, he is becoming more able to dress himself, feed the dog, do somersaults, help unload the dishwasher, and with baking. He is more than able to clean his room, put books, clothes, and toys away from around the house, put the clothes in the dryer, take his dishes to the sink, and entertain the dog for hours. I love my little helper and I'm so proud of him! One of my favorite things he does is get out a dominoe or 2 and hold it up to his ear like phone and say "Daddy-O, Daddy-O, truck, Mama, Daddy-O" It's too cute to behold. Hope you all enjoy the pictures.

Birthday 2

Our little boy is 2! He is so much fun and is continuing to learn and show his personality. We often find him with a bucket on his head, or lining up his cows, horses, sheep and pigs on his truck, for market I guess :) He spends a lot of time on the stool next to me in the kitchen, doing whatever I am doing. He is also now in the habit of taking my fingers and saying "room", which means he wants me to come play in his room. He loves to tell the dog "NO" and is pretty handy with a hammer. We went to Home Depot for their kids workshop and once I set the nails in the predrilled holes he put them in the rest of the way with hardly a miss. As for mischief, his biggest temptations seem to be the dog water, because everything needs a bath or needs to go swimming :) and the dog food, as it is so much fun to dump out and withhold from the dog. Here he is visiting his gifts before his birthday. He knew they were for him.
Openning some gifts from family, he had a hard time remembering how to do it since it was half a lifetime since he had done it last.

Here was his largest gift, a teepee made by my parents, with his flashlight of course. This was a big hit at the party and it's big enough for me to go in and play with him...very nice.

Party and cake...this is the second year I have bought ice cream and forgotten to put it out, and the second year no one has asked me about it! He loved the cake and the friends but had quite the strange look on his face when everyone started singing to and looking at him.

"I can eat cake all by myself anyday, but I still need help with vegetables!"

It continued to snow for over a week after his birthday and he didn't like it the first time out, maybe because Chile jumped on his back and he went over like a tree facefirst into 6 inches.

But he loved making snow angels and falling on his back into the snow, he is by the way a great snow angel maker :)

Chile!

So in October we got our puppy and named her Chile. S loves her and sometimes hates her (puppies have sharp teeth!). We are thankful that she now sleeps through the night. Puppies are worse than newborns for the first couple weeks :)

This is S and Chile on the swing. One night I let her out, sleepy and groggy as I was and she didn't come right back to the door, I started looking for her and spotted her on the swing by herself in the middle of the night for a joyswing. I wish I had captured it on video, she has done this several times since then, but I didn't get a video.

Here is S trying to play in his sandbox that we forgot to cover before it rained, a lot!

Playing in the yard with a four-legged-walking-turd

J snuggling the Chile dog the first morning we had her.

One of the most recent pics I took of her, she has grown so fast!

S loves to get down and try to snuggle with Chile, which lasts for moments before the nipping begins.

Here and there they do get to snuggle.

Chile just can't stand to see S in the tub, I'm not sure if she's worried about him (because she hates the bath) or if she thinks she's missing out on all the fun (because S makes so much noise giggling and splashing and laughing during bathtime.) So She spends the entire time he's in the bath with her front paws on the edge, trying to lick him and grap his toys.