One month to go...an update!

09.10.2011

So we are down to mere weeks until you turn two...and boy, oh boy, have you hit the "terrible two's".
The terrible part is basically how you've managed to take the term "busy" to a whole 'nother level (I'm just not all that sure there is an adequate word in my vocabulary to describe it).
Here is a great example of how I know you've hit this stage:
- you wrote scribbled all over the wall with Daddy's carpenter pencil...and then hid the pencil before I even saw the marks
- you managed to be out the front door, across the street and over halfway down the block (in just your diaper) in the amount of time it took me just to take your brother's dirty diaper off (I didn't even get it changed...the silence alarmed me, so I just did it back out, put baby in the crib and went running in search of you)
- you spilled half a carton of formula (the new "powder gold"...this stuff is expensive! Grr...)
- you dumped/spitted water all over, on purpose
- you got into a new package of wipes, squeezed a wipe repeatedly on the carpet, squeezed over your little brother's head (and got it in his eye)...you got told no, and diverted to something else, and you came right back to do it again (and got a time out for not listening)
- you bit your brother so hard on his shoulder that it left marks (and made him cry), just for the heck of it (and looked at me with a not too sweet gleam in your eye)
- you tormented the dog by hitting him with your toy bat, then you kicked him (while proudly proclaiming "I kick Ocar")
- you steamrolled your little brother
- you ran laps, and laps around the kitchen/living room loop, loudly announcing "I fast"
- you managed to transport every single tractor, combine, truck from the bucket in your room to the living room floor
(and the list goes on...)
- you watch me taking a picture of your baby brother and say "mom - I cheese!...my picture", and in the amount of time it took me to take the lens cover off and focus on you, you had already demanded I put the camera away and "no picture"!
This all within a two hour span (and because it was already 24 hrs ago, I'm sure I've forgetten many details!). Phew - did you ever exhaust your Momma...I can tell you are going to keep me on my toes, to say the least!
But despite it all, I can't help to feel so blessed to have you in my life. You amaze me daily.
Love you so much, my "almost two" B!