The West Side Story: Trenton, You're TWO!!

Trenton,

It has been a BUSY past three months! Let's see...where to start? First of all your obsession with cars has grown ten-fold. Every time you see a car or truck in the store you think you need them all. Then of course cry about it when you don't get any. But with all your hundreds of cars you have at home, you love to line them all up in a row anywhere you can. There is always a parking lot on the coffee table, rug, couch, anywhere you see a "line" of some sort, you park your cars up perfectly. It's amazing really, at how perfect your lines are. You get so proud of yourself too :)

We finally got your nap time to where you go to sleep by yourself! That was a huge deal since you always had to be rocked to sleep then laid down in your bed. The only sad thing that seems to have come along with that for some reason is you all the sudden decided you don't want to read books before bed anymore. We need to figure out how to get you back into reading because I really want that to be an important part of your life as you grow up.

Aunt Stephanie came to visit right after Thanksgiving as well. You loved getting to know Aunt Stephanie a little better. She also brought Uncle Sean with her for us all the meet for the first time. He actually proposed to her the couple days before coming to see us! :) Stephanie bribed your love with cars though. You were kind of hesitant at first since you didn't really know them, but as soon as she gave you new cars, it was like she was your best friend.

SPEECH

Your speech has also skyrocketed, especially in the last few weeks. You say your name really well now too. Everything is Trenton's. Trenton's juice, Trenton's cars, Trenton's clicker, Trenton's everything. Glad you are doing so well on your possessive nouns :) Also sentences are becoming more and more part of your vocabulary. You are really good at repeating sentences with even 4 or 5 words, and you can come up with 2 or 3 word sentences on your own. You also call your brother "Cookie" instead of Tucker. I think it's because you can't say your "-er" words very well yet. It's adorable though. Also, Thank You and Please are main words in your vocabulary, even at the grocery store you say "thank you" to strangers. Glad we are doing something right in this parenting thing!

A few months ago Daddy got a bad cough again and it always sounds so horrible, so I started saying "yuck Daddy!" when he would cough and you were around. Mostly as a joke, but it did sound pretty gross too. And now every time Daddy coughs, even when it's a normal cough, you shout, "yuck Dada!" and of course I laugh, and Daddy gets mad at me :) You say it to anyone who coughs too. If Tucker coughs, it's "yuck Baby!".

TUCKER

Whenever you share your toys with Tucker and place your cars on his chest, you says "you're so sweet!" as you lay them down :) Things like "It's okay baby, don't be sad" are some things you say. Also you love to help burp Tucker and give him bottles when he gets pumped milk.

Sometimes we think you may love your brother a little too much. You are always wanting to kiss him! And it must be on his lips. It is very sweet and I love how much you love your brother, but sometimes it gets a bit excessive. I do hope you continue to love each other as you get older.

A few weeks before Tucker was born, you started wanting to nurse again. I let you a few times, but not that often. The day before Tucker was born, you started getting fevers again. Luckily we didn't have to go to the hospital and you kept up on your fluids pretty well. But then you developed a cough toward the end of that fever spell and it lingered for about seven weeks. Finally you were diagnosed with bronchitis and it started going away after that medicine. But boy oh boy are you HORRIBLE at taking medicine!! I've tried mixing it in ice cream, apple sauce, chocolate syrup...you are just too smart and somehow you know I've hidden medicine in your food.

MILESTONES

We've also been working on your numbers and you are doing so well! Your favorite numbers are two, three, five, and eight and you make sure to say those ones out loud; especially two.

You are starting to tell us when you go to the bathroom as well so that is a huge improvement! I'm hoping in the next couple months, once we get settled in more, to start working on potty training. Hopefully that goes well when we do get there.

Something you really enjoy now is being forward facing in the car! We went to a car seat safety specialist who helped us make sure both your car seats were correct and because of Daddy's height and the types of car seats we have, she suggested turning you forward facing a few weeks early. I wanted to keep you rear facing longer than two years, but we had to do what was safest for everyone. The sad part is that it took you awhile to get used to it and wouldn't fall asleep for weeks in your car seat. Everything was just too cool and interesting I guess.

SILLY

You are your father's son for sure. You are always walking around with one sock on. It drives me crazy! And I'm pretty sure we've lost a few socks from you doing this around the house as well.

Terrible Twos have started as well! Here we go....the whining and tantrum throwing is getting pretty ridiculous!

Even though you haven't nursed in a while, whenever you are on my lap or in my arms you point to my chest and say "Trenton's?" Then when I say "no, Mommy's" you point to one side and say, "Baby's" then the other side and say "Trenton's". Apparently my body is no longer mine....silly boy.

CHRISTMAS

Christmas was a fun time of seeing extended family with food and fun. You are getting more and more sociable and actually playing with other people and wanting to go with others. It still takes a few minutes for you to warm up to people, but you eventually start playing and talking.

Santa came a day early to our house this year because he knew we needed to finish packing up the house in order to move. You really have no clue who Santa is still, but I tried talking him up a little bit this year in hopes that you wouldn't cry when we took pictures with Santa. Nope, you still cried. Hey, maybe one day! But at home you got some new cars and books, and a new Cars shirt. Of course you really didn't care about the clothes; cars are way cooler.

When we opened presents at Gi-Gi and Pimpa's house we made the mistake of letting you open a giant pack of new cars from Pimpa first. We lost you from then on and you didn't care about anything else but making your parking lots with all your new cars.

OUR NEW HOME!

So right after Christmas you, me, and Tucker all took a plane ride to Omaha! We made it but my goodness, was it difficult for me to lug everything through the Atlanta airport. It took us an hour just to get from the entrance to our gate. I was pushing two car seats, a car seat base, and the boppy all on the snap n' go stroller then I was wearing Tucker and pulling a suitcase in the other hand. I had to suck it up and buy you one of those toddler harnesses for you though since I had no idea what I would do if you decided to run off while in the airport. I was ashamed and hated the murmured talks I heard behind me, but hey, it was for my sanity. Thankfully you stayed right by the stroller the entire time anyways. Luckily the flight attendants and some of the passengers were wonderful and helped me with everything. And you were perfect on the plane ride as well.

We made it to Omaha though with snow on the ground. Of course the coldest day of the year was the next day and boy oh boy was it cold!! Luckily Grandma Kathy came to help us unpack and watch you and Tucker while Daddy and I spent two weeks in training. You LOVE your Grandma! You can't say grandma though so you call her Mee-ma. And go around the house yelling, "Meeee-maaaa!" all day long.

Unfortunately you got another bought of fevers during our training though :( Good news this one only lasted nine days instead of ten! We ended up going to the ER one night because you threw up and it wasn't like any other vomit you've had before so we decided to go in. Of course they said it was "just a virus". One day during this round of fevers, you were sitting on my lap and all the sudden you stared past me and had a really confused look on your face. I said your name multiple times and you didn't move a muscle. Finally you looked at me but you still had that confused look on your face, like you didn't know who I was or something, then you looked past me again. You finally snapped out of it after Grandma's phone went off. It seemed like a seizure to me after I thought about it more, which scares me, but you haven't had another incident like that again. You do have a doctor's appointment soon and I will definitely be bringing that up as a precaution. We are so very grateful for Grandma being here though. If she wasn't here then we wouldn't have been able to finish training. She has helped so much with the both of you and we don't want her to leave!

YOUR TWO YEARS OLD!

Daddy and I actually had to work on your birthday but only in the morning. We spent the evening at home as a family, and Grandma was there too still. We had Five Guys and made brownies :) We didn't do much else for your birthday this year since it has been a crazy past couple weeks, but that's okay, you won't remember it anyways. Next year we will probably do something a little more fun for you since you will be more likely to remember it. On Friday we went to the car show! You were in heaven. So many cars for you to touch and play in! You'd see in one car and then immediately run over to the next one you see. You had so much fun!

At your two year check up at our new Boys Town doctor, you weighed 28 lbs (you have actually been 28 pounds since your one year check up), and you are 33 1/2 inches tall. For weight you are in the 58th percentile and for height in the 34th percentile. You had to get your finger pricked to check your iron and lead levels and you were telling us all about your "owie" the rest of the day.