Dear My TWO year old little boy,
Well, it might be just another month older when it comes to these letters, but can you believe that you are already two? Two years old. You are not going to believe how quickly these two years have gone by until you have your own little weed of a kid that grows so quickly. I miss my baby, but I'm mostly amazed by the little boy that you've become. We are getting ready to celebrate with a lion party this weekend. I can still hear your little baby lion roar in my head, but that roar sure has changed over the past year.
Your little fall corduroy overalls fit right in with all the orchards and pumpkin patches we visited this month. Twice from strangers I heard how "confident" you seemed. You'd just charge in front of us headed towards whatever interests you, but always holding hands when cars are around. You opted for a booster seat instead of a high chair a few times this month and it worked out pretty well. You had an easy time saying goodbye when I took two nights away to visit my girlfriends. You said "see you later" just like you do when I leave for work and you had a great boys weekend with your super daddy.
Your favorite new phrase was "o-kay come on." You will normally say this when you want to go play with the shake cars or the sticker sheets. You picked up telling us that things smell like pee-u which you always say with a giggle. Your dad plays his chugga chuggas on the guitar in the basement most of the time lately, and you always want to go down after a few minutes to play with the toys I've stored down there (rotating some in and out so there always are some new ones). You also will sneak in a few minutes on the drum set we moved down there too.
This Halloween month your favorite game was sticking monster and halloween stickers. The monster eyeballs made their way to your forehead and you became the six eyed monster. There were a few bath times were the monster stickers had to come off to wash your face and I would let you try to pull them off by looking in the mirror. You learned how everything was backwards in the mirror. Your favorite book quickly became Where the Wild Things Are because your dad enjoyed reading it to you so much. I love how darn cute it is when you say rumpus. You loved to declare which one is your favorite monster - the one with the horn. "Grrrowl, i like that one"
You loooved dressing up as a tiger for Halloween and using a few other assorted costumes from the dress up pile. The skeleton jammies I found on my trip for Halloween week were a hit and they paired nicely with your bat boy mask which you refused to take off. You colored a really cool elephant mask at the zoo party with your dad. Here is the conversation your dad highlighted: Aiden: "Elephant has big trunk." J: "Do you have a big trunk, Aiden." Aiden: "No, I have a little baby nose." (Squeezes nose.) J: "Does Dadda have a little baby nose?" Aiden: "No, Dadda got a *big* nose."
You enjoyed picking out your own toys like the tiger you picked up at the zoo with your dad. The tiger sure does like to eat everything it sees. You like playing with cookie cutters especially the shark and seagull. You will hum the jaws theme song as the shark eats things. You think it's hysterically funny when your dad pretends that seagull is swooping down over your head. You also cracked up when cookie monster would put a yogurt container on his head and your dad would accidently run him into things. You and your dad definitely like to be crazy boys. It was too bad your dad wasn't at Gymboree the day I took you and they had an extreme gymboree climbing mat skater ramp. It was literally a big drop off a the end that you liked to swing over and smile at me frantically trying to spot you as you easily plunked down.
Second to stickers, which you got pretty good at getting off the sheet with some help, your favorite game was pulling the paper off your crayons. I figure it doesn't really ruin them and it's decent practice for your hand/finger coordination. You loved playing advanced versions of peek-a-boo, which used to be so simple. Now you will say "Where's Aiden?" - then you want us to pretend we can't see you, then say I think he's over there. Then you run over there and says "Oh ya, there's Aiden."
Rebecca uses you for some of her classroom observations, and she says her professor doesn't believe how old you are. You learned to use "that spells" when you read letters. Your favorite is when we approach stop signs in the car you say s-t-o-p that spells stop. Now even when you can't see a stop sign and we ask you how do you spell stop you will tell us s-t-o-p. You found your name on the back of your purple monster painting from gymboree and you said, "a-i-d-e-n that spells monster!" Your dad likes that you are able to remember things well, so he's taught you some science. If we ask you what the sun is made of you reply with "sun is hot gas" - "cloud is waters" - "moon is made biiiig rocks" You loved pointing out the big bright moon around halloween and declaring that it was made of big rocks. You also try to explain that shadows are made from blocking light and you like dancing shadow hands on the wall. Yep, definitely a science fair kid in the making...
There is no shortage of things you do to amaze us. (I'm sure that every parent feels the same way.) I am amazed that I'm your mama. I'm amazed when you roar and it sounds like a big boy roar. I'm amazed that you are two years old. Thank you for amazing me. I love you, Mamma
Rebecca bought Aiden's a bike for his birthday! And it sure is a big boy bike - it even has some shocks ;) He'll be tall enough eventually or we'll get some pedal blocks or we'll just push him ;) Thanks Ba-ca!
