Michael turned 2

Our little prince turned 2 on March 10 with lots of family and friends to help celebrate.  Michael has finally reached the age of independence....in his mind at least.  He likes to pick out his clothes/socks/shoes (which ALL have to have some form of green in them, his favorite color, or he has a fit.  I love that he picks out what he likes, but he is severely limited to green, and if all the green is in the wash, he will succumb to a different color only after a nice fit of tears.

He loves donuts, sweets,  sports- mainly football, and reading books and pushing trucks.  He recently had a ball outside playing with our 3 year old neighbor and a teenage boy throwing a football around the lawn.  He was in heaven.

Michael loves to dance, and is addicted to "Jack and Jill" skit on The Wiggles DVD.  He also likes to listen to the nursery rhyme about 20 times in a row.  We have started to wean him from the bad habit by telling him the DVD is at Nani and Papa's house, which it is...thankfully.  His vocabulary has really picked up and he speaks in sentences now.  We are still so in love with this little baby boy....ok toddler.

Here are the highlights of his party:

A little bit Friendly

We had the Schnoor's and LaPointe's over the other day to visit and let the kids run wild.  It had been a while but everyone had a blast.

There are so many pictures I am behind on...233 to be exact.  I'll try to load as few as possible, but it might be impossible.  I realize we have a TON of pictures from inside of our house but that is because I forget to take pictures with the camera away from the house.  We are going to get better about that.

Michael will be 2 in a few short weeks and he will be super excited to actually be present for most of it!  This year he will blow out his candles and open his own presents, and God-willing NOT be sick.

LK will be 4 in a few months and she already changes the theme every time we talk about it.  Everything she sees that she wants to own we remind her to put on her birthday list.  (I'm trying to be good about making these lists, but I don't remember everything.)

MC is becoming an independent little man but is sweet as can be.  LK is also the sweetest little (big) girl and will be going to 4K at the end of the year.  She is excited to say the least.  We are so blessed.  Here goes...

Some toy was kicked under the oven...Michael thought he could help, LK thought she could tell him where it was.

We are working on feet OFF the table

LK loves to walk on the sill

Michael checking out where I work

Tantrum avoided...just let them stand in the fridge

hut hut... a little football play in the kitchen

They got to the blue...I saved the white.  fair enough.

Time's a flyin'

Wow, can't believe it has been a couple months since the last post.  I've fallen way behind.  Michael is gaining more and more independence, and loves to say NO.  He is saying more words and just starting to put two-word sentences together....rarely, but I've heard it. In fact, tonight he said mommy stairs (which means mommy, downstairs), or Daisy off.  He'll get there :)  We just had conferences at school and both kids are doing great and learning a lot.  Michael is saying more words than most in his room and does very well with his utensils while eating. He kicks a ball and throws things with ease and loves trucks.

Lauren loves the library corner and art in school and is the first to help other friends get there stuff done.  She is the social butterfly we are told and is a huge teacher's helper.  She writes her letters and even most of her name.  She can spell and name all shapes and count backward from 10.  Lauren loves to help me make recipes when we put MC down to bed (stall tactic I'm sure, but it is fun for both of us).  And she loves to wear my lip glosses and makeup.    

We are very proud of both of them!

I got a new iPhone recently and haven't taken too many pics with the regular camera. I'm too lazy tonight to transfer from my phone to computer so these are the latest and greatest.