Two & a Half

I'm a few weeks late, but Miller is officially two and a half years old.  I wanted to be sure and document a few of his favorite things right now and some of our favorite things he says.  I've been putting off this post, because I wanted to include some pictures but that's just not happening these days.  Sorry folks.

Favorite song to listen to: "Noah" ("Arky Arky")

Favorite song to sing:  "Baby Jesus" ("Away in a Manger")
Favorite books: A Crack in the Track, The Thinks You Can Think, ABC Jamboree, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Favorite Toy: train table
Favorite Foods:  milk, bananas, biscuits, cheese, avocado, raisins, fruit snacks

Some of Miller's cute words/sayings:

polka dotty (his polka dot blanket)
dat's si-yee (That's silly)
doowin? (What are you doing?)
Sure is
oh dear
baby jo (Betty Jo - his great grandmother)
baby daddy (Baby Addie - Kendall and Will's baby girl)
tomato (tornado)
Wanna cuddle mommy?

He also uses the pronoun "my" instead of "I".  For example, instead of saying "I want to get down" he'll say "Want my get down".

We potty trained Miller this past weekend and he is doing pretty well so far. We've made it a few days with no accidents and the other days he's only had one each day.  Today he had an accident at school which got his shoes wet so he was barefoot when I picked him up.  On the way home he told me he had to tee-tee.  Since I'm not really sure how long I have when he says that I pulled over and had him go on the side of the road.  So there we were.  He had on no shoes, his pants around his ankles, peeing on the side of the road.  I didn't look like a redneck at all.

We also seemed to have officially hit the "terrible twos" this week.  He usually gets a good report whenever I leave him somewhere (school, church nursery, gym nursery, etc).  This week almost every time we went somewhere he got in trouble.  Each teacher said something along the lines of, "He just wasn't himself today."  Well, after four days I think we can officially call it a pattern.  Therefore we're stepping up our discipline game and not letting anything slide.  Hopefully we'll be back on track soon.  He's also in a big "I do it myself" phase.  So that's fun.  Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's learning to be independent and there are certainly lots of things he can do by himself even if he struggles some.  However, there are also lots of things that at two and a half he cannot do by himself and he doesn't like that one bit.

Even though spending my days with a two year old offers many moments of frustration, I wouldn't trade it for anything.  His contagious laugh or one sweet cuddle from him can turn my day around in an instant.  Love that boy.