Mickey's TWO!! (and me!)

Julian turned two, as well as everyone else the little boy loves-mainly Mickey.  Co op was cancelled (yet again!) on his birthday so all the lovely Mickey Mouse rice krispie treats and ears didn't get to get used or eaten. The first thing he saw was his Mikey balloon while enjoying his milk. Then he  had a breakfast cinnamon roll and even blew out the candle! After Andrew went to school, I took the Ryan and Julian to the gym for a quick workout and a special birthday smoothie and games. Julian asks for them EVERYDAY after I finish. After nap, Grammy, Papa, Uncle Mike and Uncle Pat came over for dinner and cake.

             The LIFE size Mickey balloon. And both Ryan and Julian are wearing their Mickey jammies

                                         Opening presents from his brothers and family

                                         Dancing with Elmo

Julian has had a big verbal explosion in the last few weeks and is S  L  O  W  L  Y starting to put a few words together.  He is so stinking cute though so its hard to worry. His favorite phrase is "and me." No one else can do something or be talking about doing anything without him running up to you and saying "and ME!"

At his two year check up he was 27lbs and 34 inches. And had two raging ear infections. Go Mom. 

Julian loves to sing and hum, and talks to himself an average of an hour before his nap everyday. He carries around Mickey, another Mickey, Minnie, and two large teddies. He loves books(5 Little Monkeys Make Momma a Birthday cake is one of the favs), the indoor sandbox, milk, books with buttons, playing kitchen, exercising with little weights, and putting people in cars/boats, etc. He is one happy little fella most of the time. We love you Julibean!

Quick Catch-up for the month of January!

It still baffles me how it was so much easier to blog in our apartment in the city! I think I am constantly picking up and cleaning up here that blogging gets pushed to the back burner. Here are the last few weeks of little happenings!

                                                                       Dancing boys

 Putting together our 1000 piece Clemson puzzle that was given to us a few years ago. Chris did 98% of it. And then we found out, wait for it, WE WERE MISSING ONE PIECE!! Ahhhhhh

  Playing with boxes galore with friends. We finally recycled some of the last of our moving boxes.

            I  managed to run a 5k...the last time being in JULY! I need to run more....in my extra time

                 Julian puts himself in time out now if we correct him for anything

                     

                                   Making visors from a friends birthday bag

                                       

                                            Another lovely snowy day...is it May yet?

Sledding down the hill at Loch Raven

           

 Julian and his friend Max. Out of all his friends in co op, he knows Max's name and asks for                     him anytime I talk about the other boys having a playdate

         

                                                    Flipping at Skyzone

                                        Kissy kissy

                                       New library loot. The weather has been so cold, we have been hitting up the library often. Andrew can read through Captain Underpants, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and such in less than an hour, and he will read for hours straight some days.

 This is a dog jumping in the water-cool animal show at the fairgrounds

 The next week we had a pet day at Julian's coop and Ryan got to go with us

                                           Celebrating our buddy Wyatt's birthday at Rebounders

                                   Julian takes Mickey and Minnie everywhere. Even BJs.

                                   How can a boy resist?

 We took the boys to Disney on Ice:Worlds of Fantasy. It was....okay..Julian loved Mickey between the acts and the boys said it was fun, but it was much longer than we had anticipated (almost 2 hours!) and some of the story lines were a bit too drawn out. The swords were the biggest hit of course.

Making our Valentines vase!