Happy Birthday! I can't believe it's been 2 years since you changed our lives completely. Here are some memorable things on your 2nd birthday:
- The biggest change in your short life was the addition of your brother Asher this year. For the most part, you are very sweet with him. You call him "little guy" and have started to share your toys with him. When he was first born, you cried every time he did. But you have since learned to ignore his cries when you have something more important to occupy you.
- You are not only walking but running now. You love to play outside, go for bike rides, swing and go down the slide.
- You still love reading books. You have now memorized many of them (e.g., Good Night Rhode Island) and "read" them yourself.
- You are enthralled with the bears video that Aunt Jane got you for your birthday last year. You now request the Bears a few times a day and even sing along to the peanut butter song.
- You are still a great eater. You will eat pretty much anything although sometimes you are still too excited about eating to chew. You now request Buffalo Wild Wings (emphasis on the Wild) because you know that we go there after softball games.
- You have an amazing vocabulary. You talk really well for your age and will repeat just about anything anyone says or you hear on TV. This can be good and bad, Mom and Dad have learned. Just about the only word you can't say is elevator (you still call it alligator). The kids at daycare think it's fun to teach you words like hippopotamus.
- You are very sweet. We've taught you please and thank you but the cutest is when I tell you "Thank you Reese" and you say "You're welcome, Mommy." It melts my heart every time.
- You like to sing. You can sing Mary had a little Lamb, Rock-a-bye Baby, Twinkle, Twinkle and a few others. The funniest is when you sing 5 Silly Monkeys and you change your voice to the "mean doctor" voice: "No more monkeys jumping on the bed." You LOVE American Idol and got mad when Daddy couldn't find it on EVERY night.
- You now sleep in your own bed in your own room. Quite an accomplishment for all of us. Your bed is actually our old king size mattress laying on the ground of the spare bedroom. Probably the biggest toddler bed you've ever seen :) You can brag about that to your friends.
- You started daycare in June and you absolutely love it. When you first started every morning you'd wake up and say "Daycare?" (even Saturdays). You love your teachers and the friends you've made there.
- We are now living in Helena. We've been renting a condo across the street from Aunt Jennifer while Daddy builds our new house. You love seeing your cousins so much. Mommy is still flying somewhere (right now it's mostly Salt Lake City) every week but you do a good job of keeping Daddy and Asher company during the week.
Happy birthday Reese!
Love,
Mommy & Daddy
