At 2 Riley and Jeremy talked a lot!  Tyler talks a lot but mostly in his own language and when he does use words he usually drops almost every consonant.  He comes up and and says a bunch of vowel sounds

Riley- iey

Jeremy- erey

peanut butter(he's obsessed with eating it so he says it A LOT)- Bu-er, sometimes P bu-er

sorry- o-ey

But one of my favorite thins he says is 

"anks mom!"

today while he ate his soup, for about half the meal, he kept saying it over and over again.  So I got the camera and then of coarse has to preform by acting silly but he eventually says it.

Perception Is Reality

In order to get the full effect you must first know that Jeremy had two accidents just this afternoon, for which Lane cleaned him up.  One of them occurred right before dinner.  We all were at the dinner table eating and then Jeremy stood up at which point we noticed that Jeremy didn't have underwear or pants on.  

Lane:  Jeremy go upstairs and get a some underwear!

Jeremy:  I want water

Lane:  Go upstairs and get some underwear!

(seeing Jeremy not going to budge and choosing my battle)

Me:  Jeremy I will get you water while you go get underwear.

Jeremy:  I"m too scared.

Me:  Riley will you go upstairs with Jeremy to get underwear?

(Riley agrees and starts heading up but since Jeremy didn't go he came back)

Lane:  Jeremy GO GET YOU'RE UNDERWEAR!  I will get you water.

Jeremy:  WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING!

What would you say Riley built?

Riley and Jeremy had been making a habit of making a fort everyday using everything possible and making a HUGE mess!  Now if we had a toy room, or even just a little more space, I would not care that we had a fort up all the time.  However for anyone who has seen our home, they can understand how a fort can take it over.  So we tried restricting the forts to certain areas for a while and not using everything.  They did not abide so then we said, "NO forts for a while!"

The very next day Riley builds this.  I asked him why he did it and reminded him that they can't build forts for a while.  (Even if it was just a couple of days that we were fort free, I would be happy)  He so mater of fact says,

"It's not a fort!  It's a birthday party for my monkey!!!"  Let me say that the stuffed monkey is about 6 inches tall.  I just smiled and gave up the fight on forts because really I think a kid should get to build forts.  It's great imaginative play.  I just can't wait until we have a bigger house some day so it's not so consuming!  :)  

It's all about the milk

The other day Jeremy asked me if he could have some milk.  I told him he could and he proceeded to get it out of the fridge.

"It's too heavy!  That's because it's the bought one.  When it's new it's always heavy because it has so much milk... And the cows give it!"

He drank his milk and then he said,

"A really long time ago, I had a dream, and it was a REALLY GOOD one!  Someone was milking a cow!"

hmmmm, can you just imagine what a great dream that would be?!

So after I published this post Lane was showing it to the boys.  Then Jeremy informed us that it wasn't a big person milking the cow.  So I asked if it was a girl or boy.  He said it was a boy.  Then Riley says, "I don't dream like that.  I dream in color."

Jeremy:  Me too.  It was in color and the boy was wearing a green shirt and red pants and his face looked like a wheel."   

I'm guessing here, maybe the wheel is because a head is round?!

On Tyler's birthday Jeremy just doted over Tyler.  It was precious.  At the end of the day we were telling him how proud we were of him.

Jeremy:  I played with Tyler so kindly!....I just love myself of doing that!

Happy Birthday Tyler!

I can't believe my little baby is now 2.  Look at him when he was brand new!  Tyler is such a sweet little boy.  He is so happy and so endearing.  He is such a blessing in our life!

Tyler was about 9 months  here.

Here he as at 1 1/2

About 3 weeks ago Tyler became Mr. Mischief.  Every chance he gets he's into something.  I must have been taking a nap when this happened.  Lane was on duty, he had run upstairs quickly to get something and when he came down this is what he saw.  And just look at how much he enjoys it.  He loves getting into mischief and teasing.

Tyler was so excited about his presents.  The thing was how much he seemed to love the card Jeremy made him.  Jeremy was so excited about Tyler's birthday.  As soon as he went down for a nap he wanted to wrap his present and make him a card.  I wrote what he told me to right and he decorated it.  The card read, 

"Happy Birthday Tyler!  I love you and I want to play with you!  Love, Jeremy"

When I read the card to Tyler, while his head is cocked and he has the sweetest expression he says,  "oooohhhhhh!"

The other cute part was that when it was time to go home, he didn't realize that he got to keep the toys.  He kept putting them down and saying Goodbye to them.  Once we got him in his car seat and gave him his fire truck his face just lit up!

Happy Birthday Tyler!!

We love you so much!!