Two Years

Bee had his birthday!!

My baby boy is Two years old. I can barely believe that we have had him in our lives for two whole years. He brings so much joy and happiness into every day.

To celebrate we had a family birthday party. I know lots of people that put a lot of time, money and effort into birthday parties but we do not fit in that category at all. Bee doesn't really understand what a birthday is nor will he remember his second birthday party. Why not make it easy? That's exactly what we did. We had over 15 people in our small home. My mother would say "a house with love has elastic walls". This might be true but if all of our immediate family were able to come the we would have been 25 people. Elastic walls might allow for some stretching but creating another room is a little much.

We opened presents, played a bit then ate cake. My personal favorite part of birthday parties.

Jason made a wonderful cake and decorated it oh so nicely. He is a man of many talents.

A few days later we had some friends over to play with Bee's new play dough accessories then we ate the leftover cake.

Easy Peasy. Maybe one year I will worry about décor and a matching theme but then again I might just not. Parties are for kids and they don't care or notice how beautiful the cake looks, they just want to eat it. They don't care what décor we have as long as there are games or things to play with.

I better leave a two year update as well:
Bee loves sweets. He is constantly hugging and kissing her. She is quite patient with him but sometimes enough is enough. I often catch Bee reading to Sweets,. Bee will read just about all day long. He loves to be read to. When we read we like to count things that we see in his books. He is good at pointing to the objects so that I can count them. When he counts he says "ten" for every object that we point to. Its adorable. Bee has a new word every day or so. He constantly surprises me with what new word he says. Bee still does quite a bit of signing but I like it. I know exactly what he wants and he normally signs and try to say the word at the same time. We are working on being kind. If he needs to apologize he often signs sorry and then says who he is apologizing too. Then I say thank you while signing and he signs your welcome. I'm hoping that these manners stick but only time will tell.

When he is relaxing he will often place his hands on his cheeks. Bee helps me fold laundry, aka he rolls them into balls but that's close enough. After breakfast Bee puts his dishes into the sink. If he spills he wipes it up. He does not like to be messy unless we are doing a messy activity. Bee helps me with the dishes. I wash them and put them in the other side of the sink, with some water in it, to be rinsed. Bee rinses then he stacks the dishes in the drying rack. He is getting better at stacking. It never falls over just sometimes its a gigantic pile with no order. In the mornings Bee picks out his own clothes. He has been doing this for a while but I don't have to remind him to get one shirt and one pair of pants he just gets them. He cant dress himself yet but if I stick his head in his shirt hen he can pop his arms into the sleeves.

Bee loves to hold my hand. He will be doing his own thing and so will I but he just wants to hold my hand. He is getting good at walking when we are out and about and he always remembers to hold my hand. When he wants to show me something he comes and gets me and gently leads me. Bee loves to pray. He mostly just mumbles but he normally gets one word per sentence.

Bee is such a blessing in my daily life. Watching him grow is a privilege. I try and remember all of the little things but I know that I have already forgotten some precious moments.