Happy 25th Month Birthday, Brayden!

Dear Brayden,

This month we went on a BIG adventure!  All the way to Florida.  Where Mickey vacations when not in California.  You were so excited to go on a big airplane.  So excited, in fact, that you threw up everywhere when we pulled into the parking garage at the airport.  The most throw up I have every seen in my whole life.  I got you all changed, but didn’t realize I had throw up all over me as well before we checked our bags.  I got to fly in smelly clothes all day.  That was fun!  Luckily you weren’t sick.  Just nerves.  So, you got to enjoy your flight and did SO well!  You loved the turbulence on the plane (Mommy didn’t) and napped at the perfect time.  The trip was so much fun.  I doubt you will remember it, but I always will!

You are getting funnier and funnier by the day.  This month I asked you what my name was and you said, “Drew!”.  What?  We hadn’t even been working on that!  You are so observant!  I asked you what Daddy’s name was and you said, “Tuck!”.  We laughed so hard at you when you said that!  You are talking so much!  In fact, you don’t shut up most of the time!  It’s like your mind is working overtime and you don’t know how to turn it off.  You know all the Disney characters by name now.  You are also calling animals by their names rather than by the sounds they make.  You started calling Hauggy, “Haug” instead of “Woof Woof”.  You learned how to say elephant, giraffe, and rhino at Animal Kingdom.  You are speaking in three, four, and even five word sentences.  You can count to five (sometimes), but know your numbers up to 16.  You also started calling your Grandpa, “Papa G”, which I know makes him very happy!

You are finally eating!  You will tell us what you want and will usually eat most of it.  This is such a relief as you’ve been a really bad eater up until lately!

The terrible two’s have most definitely begun.  There’s a lot of, “No, no, NO!”‘s at our house.  And, subsequently, a lot of time outs.  And the whining!  Oh holy whining!  I can handle a lot of things, but the whining drives me insane!  Once I can get you to use your words and communicate with me what you want we’re good.  But, sometimes that takes a while.  For the most part you are a very good boy.  You are very caring towards your friends and are very non confrontational with them.  It seems like you get that from your Daddy!

Daddy and I had so much fun with you on our big adventure this month!  It makes us very excited for Maui in July!  I know you will enjoy it so much more than last year and we get to go on another fun plane ride!

I love you always and forever my B,

Mama