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 This handsome little guy is TWO years old today.  He is my absolute favorite.  

He is in love with both of his parents and for the most part his baby sister.  He is helpful and loves to help me make anything in the kitchen and is very frustrated when he doesn't get to stir.  He loves to copy everything Paige does.  He crawls after her and loves to bring her toys to play with.  He also copies everything we do, which isn't always a good thing.  Every time he drops something he says,"shoot!" or "dangit!"

He loves chocolate chip cookies and M&M's.  He has a new obsession with pears and I just can't seem to keep enough in the house.  This morning he woke up and said, "I need a pear."  Yup those exact words.  He is an awesome talker.  3-4 word phrases all the time, but full sentences are starting to take over.

He could watch...wait, he does watch Toy Story daily. Whenever we're at a friends house and he discovers they own a Woody or Buzz doll, he carries it around until we leave.  He loves animals.  When he sees them he gets so excited, especially puppies.  His grandparents have puppies, which he knows by name, and if he sees a dog in our neighborhood he calls them by those names.

He talks in his sleep.  If he could, he'd play outside all day.  He loves bikes, motorcycles, and balls.  Can you tell he's a boy?  Oh and he has to do everything himself!  Walk down the stairs by himself, climb into the car and his carseat by himself, even wash his body in the tub by himself.  He's just so big.