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On Saturday D and I took a trip to Ikea to replace his "Dean table" that had been coated with crayon, applesauce and other icky stuff. The restaurant was PACKED, so instead we went and got some noodles. If you look closely you can see he needed 2 forks :) Chocolate from the bank :)

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(I have never gotten a good birthday cake picture of him, but give the kid a cupcake and he goes to town!)

2 year old stats

I need to write a longer "Dean at 2" post when I get my computer back, but for now...
Dean is 36 inches tall (85th percentile) and 27.4 pounds (41st percentile), his head was something around 85th percentile as well.

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23 months!

At 23 months Dean is talking an amazing amount. He learns new words everyday, and he'll occasionally come out with something he used to ask "what's that" about and then all of the sudden he'll use that word even if we haven't mentioned it in a long time. He loves to look at bugs and butterflies and all kinds of farm animals. If we drive down a road by our house you can see cows and sheep and horses & when we pass them he yells "cows, Moo" and "hee-haw" and so on. He loves all kinds of cars, trucks and trains (basically anything with wheels) and loves to make their noises and drive them all over everything. The fire truck is currently his favorite, and he likes to make the siren sound. He loves to be pushed on his ride-on fire truck "fast!" He likes to play a game where we make "angry face & happy face and sad face" He says "angry face" and then makes an angry face and then he laughs and says "happeee face" It is guaranteed to put him in a good mood! He also likes to say "ready, set, GO" and run off down the hall. He wears mostly 24 months and some 2T clothes, size 5 diapers and is ready for size 7 shoes.

22 Months!

At 22 months Dean continues to talk more and more. He is good about asking for what he wants, more or less, and is starting to say please "More milk peese". Thank you kind of sounds like "all done" though, so I think I'm just deluding myself! He also recognizes that some things are his, and some are other people's, like dada juice, dada suck (which is dada's truck) or dada shoe, or mama fleefly (which is butterfly for those of you who don't speak Dean). He has recently discoverd non-butterfly bugs also, which is fun when we are outside! He loves anything to do with choo-choo or vroom, he is in near constant posession of a truck or car. He likes to say what people are doing, though mostly when they are sleeping "dada seep" or "dat (cat) seep", and likes to lay down with a pillow and a blanket and pretend to sleep on the floor. What a ham!
He can sing the beginning of "Row, row row your boat" and parts of "Old McDonald". He is crazy about hats, both his actual hats and random bowls and things that make nice hats when they are empty. He's gotten quite adept with silverware, though still resorts to his fingers eventually. He loves cooked onions "noodles" and honey mustard, he'd eat both like they were a main course if he could.
He is wearing mostly 24 month clothes, with a few 2t in the mix. He has size 6 shoes, but not for much longer, and size diapers.
On Sunday he dragged Nala (from the Lion King, she's about 2 feet tall) out of his room and first tried to sit on and ride her like his pony, and then fed her "nummy". He would give her one goldfish at a time, and then later just put his whole snack dish on her snout. It was super cute!

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More Wheee

21 Months!

At 21 Months Dean is continuing to talk more every day. He's started putting together small sentences, 2 words or so. He still loves apple juice, but can also ask for "milk" by name. He asks to "seat" whenever we pass by a chair or bench of any sort, and if he sits on the front stoop he pats beside him to tell me to sit too. He loves all sorts of trucks and trains "vroom-vrooms or choo-choos", and since we have lots of them in town he loves to point out when he can hear or see them, but doesn't enjoy when the trains are too close. He can almost jump, and still runs crazily all over. He can give kisses (though pretty much only to mum) and hi-fives and pound it. He learned to say puppy when we were at a birthday party with some crazy pugs :) and now any time he hears a puppy barking he says "PUPPY!" He also calls all our cats Bo, although we think he knows that the black one is the only one who is actually named Bo. He loves his baff, and showers, and starts asking about them as soon as we get home from school. When the bath is all gone he says "bye baff" and we get ready for bed. He likes to ride his little foot-powered 4-wheeler all around outside, preferrably backwards down the driveway, and then he laughs like a maniac when I catch him. He's still in size 6 shoes (though that won't be too much longer), size 5 diapers, and size 24 months or 2T clothes, but the pants are often too long!

"Helping" Daddy!

Steps

Dean loves to go up and down steps, including the 2 steps to get up into our house, but normally he waits until I'm there to hold my hand and step up. He barely holds my hand, and could easily do it on his own, but I guess he liked the security :)
Yesterday, however, he went up both steps all on his own!! Such a big boy!

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More funny things

Dean has recently become very interested in cars, or "vroom-vroom" and in trains, or "tchoo-tchoo" (the way he says it is much more like tutu than choo-choo). Last night after school we had to sit and watch the train for about 5 minutes before we could say bye-bye to the train. He got some cars from a friend of ours this weekend and now insists upon sleeping with them (what a cuddley lovey, no?)
He also loves to go outside, and says "side" when he either wants to go out, or sees the outside in a book. He can now say bubbles as well, and so asks to blow bubbles ALL the time! He tries to blow them occasionally, but mostly just likes to chase them around.

20 Months!

Dean is 20 months old now! At 20 months ***he has started repeating all kinds of words, though if you ask him "can you say grammy? or can you say egg?" he'll often just look at you and say "Yes"***He still loves to run and climb on EVERYTHING!***He knows most of the animals in Goodnight Gorilla, although he calls the armadillo "uh-oh" and if you ask him what the gorilla says he puts his finger to his lips and says "shhh" That's a fun grocery store game!***He wears size 5 diapers, size 6 shoes, and his clothes are either 24months or 2T***He loves to eat, if breakfast isn't ready when he gets to school he is MAD***He calls every drink apple juice, and will say "more juice" when he runs out***He loves to wear hats, particularly his dad's***He says uppa and then down when he wants up and down***He asks to blow bubbles by pretending to blow a bubble at me***He loves to throw balls and play "catch"***He knows all the parts of his face, and likes to point at our faces and say "eyes, nose, mouth"***

OMSI

Last week we had the chance to go to OMSI with a colleague of mine to check out the space exhibit. The space section wasn't quite as informative as we had hoped, but the T Rex, Sampson was really amazing! It's hard to imagine something that large running around. (And to compare that to Buddy on Dinosaur Train :)
D had a great time at the science playground, especially playing with the ball tubes; particularly the one that blew air up into his face. He went into the sand box for about 5 seconds and had enough of that.
After spending too much money at the store, and getting a great book about Quantum Entanglement and some dinosaur souvieners, we went for a delish lunch of pad thai. The server at Som Tum Thai was awesome, she brought Dean his own bowl of soup when she saw he was eating mine.
After lunch we went and saw Starry nights at the planetarium, which was also interesting. Who knew there were so many satellites orbiting earth!?! D was great, I thought he'd fall asleep once the lights went out, but he fought it and stayed awake looking at the stars. All in all we had a great day!

19 Months!

At 19 Months D: Loves to play and be silly, and make mommy & daddy laugh. He climbs up on Everything, particularly the dishwasher lid (NOT good!) He is talking more, and is getting much better about saying what he wants, though he's still not super verbal. "No & Mine" though are 2 words he uses quite a lot. He is learning how to jump (sometimes he falls over backwards though). He can say the ee-i-e-i-o part of Old Macdonald. He is a huge eater, and loves whatever I have on my plate, particularly avacado "ado". He just moved into size 5 diapers, and wears mostly 24 month clothes with the occasional 2T also. He has size 6 shoes, and LOVES to run around in them.

He goes to the garage to look for daddy if he is not in the house (even if he's still at work), and likes to find the Moon when we get home from school. He loves to watch Elmo on Sesame Street, but is scared of the Elmo Live in the living room. He weighs about 25 pounds and is about 34 inches tall.

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Snack Time

Hide and Seek

Who knew playing hide-and-seek in a box could be so much fun?!

Boxes

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