Huston - January 2012

Huston you are growing up so fast!

Shaving Kit from Gramma Marie

You have become a little sponge. Not only do you try to repeat everything we say (yes, that means we need to work on our cussing), you also copy everything we do. You are very interested in everything that goes around you and you are quite a little talker. You have added “Bless you” to your polite vocabulary when you hear someone sneeze, if I drive too fast or turn too sharp, you say “Careful mommy”, you always ask me, “What doing mommy?”, If dad calls you Bubby instead of your new nickname from him, Bub, you correct him with “No, daddy, Bub”, you tell us to “Sit” and “Lay down” and you pretty much copy everything we say to practice the words. The minute the dryer buzzes, you announce “Clothes done!” and when the ice maker drops ice, you scream “Ice!” Unfortunately, your new favorite phrase is “Stop it”. You say it even when we aren’t doing anything.

You are still obsessed with all things Toy Story, Thomas the Train, Cars and Yo Gabba Gabba. You love your “shows”, acting like a kitty cat or dinosaur, and you have found your “gun finger”…pow! And you love to jump. But most of all, you have discovered HIDING. We hide under the covers from Daddy for a large part of our evenings and some in the mornings. You don’t ever give away your location by laughing….well yes pretty much you always you do.

We haven’t quite figured it out, but 496 is your favorite number. Really. Anytime you see a number you say 496. Randomly, you say 496. If you try to count something, you say 496. I hope to one day win the lotto with this combination.

You are still my cuddler and will come up and say “I hold you” or “I hug you” when you need them. You have decided you like it when I run my hand up and down your back and if I stop too soon, you tell me to keep going. When you kiss your momma, you melt my heart and put both hands on my cheeks and give me smooches.

You love school so much and you have a best friend, Bodi. When you get to school he is the first person you ask for and when I pick you up, you give me a run down on what Bodi did all day. It makes me so happy that you have fun all day.

As with all two year olds, you do have some challenges. Right now yours is sitting still for a diaper change (although you SHOULD be potty training by now and have no interest), sleeping in your bed all night (you crawl in ours about 3am) and eating anything remotely healthy.  And you also picked up a nasty little habit of throwing toys.

Your favorite foods are yogurt, pretzels, the brown bread from Outback or Cheesecake factory (I’m talking multiple loaves at a time), fruit cups, fries, veggie straws, nuggets, mac and cheese. You have learned that you are allergic to chocolate and will say, “Chocolate hurt bum” (it gives you diaper rash). Your most favorite thing in the whole world is still milk – but with a twist. Momma showed you her secret of strawberry syrup (since you can’t have chocolate) and you LOVE it. You ask for “Swabeebee milk” all of the time.

My favorite moments this month:

Daddy’s Christmas party at work, you see me shake his bosses hand. You proceed to stick yours out and shake his too. SO CUTE!

Momma was working from home and you ask “What doing Momma?” I said “Working.”. You went and got your laptop, sat by me and said “Suston working too Momma”. SO CUTE!

We get behind a car and see the exhaust and you say “It’s cooking Momma, car is cooking”. SO CUTE!

Baby boy we love you so much and you are such a smart, funny and sweet boy. We couldn’t be more proud of you.