week nine.

 

 

Mabel: She was taping some of her artwork up in the playroom. I love her silliness.

Gus: Making me cookies in his kitchen. I love his seriousness.

 

gus theodore turns 2

 

  

Happy Birthday to our clever sweet little guy. It seems impossible that 2 years has gone by already. 

Some things about Gus right now:

He loves to be called Gussy.

No one makes him laugh harder than Mabel.

He loves to read.

He pretends to be a firefighter all the time. He does the cutest little bit where he uses his hand as a pretend phone. It always starts out with  "Hi firefighter Rodrigo, Hi firefighter Jeff, dis is Gussy, I need your help!"

He loves macaroni, avocados and ketchup. 

His favorite animals are Elephants, "sumo-whales" (which means shamu whale), and Tigers.

He could play with his train and tracks all day long. He lays on the floor and pushes them around saying "choo-choo...chuga...chuga...chuga" 

He is a blast at tea parties.

He knows more about dinosaurs than most adults. Triceratops is his favorite. 

He rubs your back while he's hugging you. 

He knows the theme song to the Thomas and friends show on PBS by heart and busts it out at random times. 

He can also belt out "let it go" from Frozen almost as good as Idina Menzel.

He does not like sunscreen and sparkling water. 

He barges into our room most every night and scares the crap out of us by yelling "suprise!" and falls back asleep of course in our bed. 

He is really the sweetest most caring little guy. He is so sensitive to other peoples feelings and is the first one to be there when anyone gets hurt or sad. 

He always shares without hesitation. 

When we go places and he sees people he knows, he runs to them like its been ages since hes seen them. As well as when we say goodbye. Everyone gets a huge hug and kiss. 

We love you Gussy. xo

 

 

 

Photos taken by Glasser Images in Bismarck, North Dakota.

week eight.

  

Gus: This week Gus and I got to have a little alone time which doesn't happen often. He wanted to paint so that's what we did. He kept saying "Look Mama, it's a purple dinosaur!"

Mabel: We had chocolate ice cream with fresh strawberries for desert and she wanted to make sure she got every last drop.

week seven.

 

Mabel: She is always coloring, writing and drawing. We have stacks upon stacks of all of her "projects" as she like to call them. Last week she screamed for me to come and look at the "A" she made and to my surprise it was an actual "A". She also taught herself to write several other letters I had no idea about so I took that as a hint and we're now going through the alphabet. It amazes me how great her penmanship is already.

Gus: Reading Mother Goose in his brand new big boy underwear. I can't believe we're at that point with him already he'll be 2 in a couple of weeks and I'm in complete denial. Notice he's wearing a band aid on his little thumb. The other morning Sam left really early for work and left us all asleep. Gus decided to wake up and head into our bathroom to "shave" so he has a tiny little cut on his finger and his upper lip. Scary but sweet at the same time. When we ask him what happened he say embarrassingly says, "I shaved".

week six.

 

 

Mabel: Always twirling around. I can't keep her out of her ballet clothes. 

Gus: We set up a little tent on our patio last week and have yet to take it down because he loves it so much. He likes to read and play his banjo in there. 

 

 

And a couple of extras because they are just too cute!

week five.

 

This weeks photos....

Mabel: Practicing her letters and sounds. We're so proud of her love of learning. She talks about going to school all the time and tells me not to be sad when she goes because she'll always come back.

Gus: He got a sticker from the checkout woman at the grocery store and his response was, "Wow, Say-nk You!"

week 4.

 

 

A beautiful day chasing bubbles in the park.