25 Months

I feel like I just wrote Elliott's 2 year post and now I'm already doing 25 months. I think we have finally hit this thing called "Terrible Two's." I'm not sure if you've heard of it, but apparently toddlers go through a difficult phase around their 2 year birthday. Yup, we are there! Elliott is testing our limits daily hourly and hates when I leave his sight. It's difficult but Mark and I are slowly learning how to stand our ground. We love him to no end and know that he's just going through an important developmental stage. 

Elliott is really starting to carry on conversations with us, although we only understand about 20% of what he says. Below are some of our favorite conversations the last couple of weeks:

Elliott - Track broke, track broke. 

Mom - Ok, Mommy will fix it.

Elliott - Der we go.

Dad - Elliott, do you want some cereal?

Elliott - Kix, like Mommy (I was eating Kix)

Elliott - And berries (I had raspberries in my cereal)

Elliott - No...poopies (pointing to his cereal)

Mom - What? You have poopies in your cereal?

Elliott - No...poopies 

Dad - Do you have poopies in your diaper?

Elliott - No...BOO-bees (pointing to his cereal again)

Mom - Oh, you want blue berries? 

Elliott - Yeah (giggling hysterically) 

Elliott - Snack, Mommy?

Mom - Sure, what do you want?

Elliott - Fruit snacks.

Mom - Um, how about an orange?

Elliott - Um, how bout.... fruit snacks? 

Reading books in his new playroom 

Taking a break from unpacking 

New haircut 

Talking to "Baby Kat" 

It's Good To Be Home

After a whirlwind of 2 months of planning, we closed on our new house on April 25th and moved in the next day. Thanks to a lot of help from family and friends we packed up our entire house on Saturday morning, drove 200 miles, and unpacked the entire UHaul Saturday night. Whew! You should have seen the UHaul. Mark had all 26 feet of it packed from floor to ceiling and front to back like a puzzle. We are now busy painting and decorating and making it our home. 

Helping Mom unpack...kind of

Fun at the new park just a few blocks from the house

This was a picture of the only stuff we couldn't fit in the UHaul. Yes, we had the UHaul packed that full.