Pancakes!

Random

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 :)

Wordless Wednesday

(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.

Wordless Wednesday

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!