Easton | 23 Months Old

Picture Credit: My Mom!

*I am more than a week late with this post! I have been working on it for days, but I got a new phone and had trouble downloading pictures and it was a whole thing!*

As I sat down to type this, Easton ran into the kitchen, wearing his jammies, huge smile on his face, black and blue marks covering every inch of his forehead and yelling happily.

Easton. Oh Easton. I can't believe you are almost TWO. How can this be?

Soon I will have a three year old and a two year old. Until November anyway.

I am not sure where to start with Easton - there is a lot to share this month...so I will just dive in.

His love for letters continues, and he has demonstrated that he knows the entire alphabet - upper and lowercase. He picks letters out of objects that aren't letters - he has a really good eye for that. Sometimes I wonder if he might be an early reader, but then I realize it doesn't matter if he is or not :) He can count to ten but has a little trouble picking out numbers by sight alone, so we have been working on that and he now knows 4, 5, 6 and 8.

He is copying everything we are saying and doing right now, but he is very very stubborn and strong-willed. My easy-going kiddo is not so easy-going anymore, and that has made life just a little bit harder!

When I look back at this post in a few months or a few years I don't want to find that I have dedicated an entire post to Easton's shenanigans - though I could write an entire post. Instead I will just share a few things and dedicate one paragraph ;) These things are happening, and I don't want to take the Pollyanna approach and ignore that these things are occurring!

First things first: He is a BRUISER. He has no concept of personal space and despite hundreds and hundreds of times being told something hurts and being disciplined, he does not care one single bit. He pulls hair, bites to get free of a hold, attacks his brother, runs full speed into people in what I perceive is an attempt to knock them over or perhaps break them in half. He head bangs every single thing - whether living or not - and just absolutely flips out when things do not go his way. His head banging has gotten so excessive in fact that we are going to take him to the doctor this week, and then we will most likely be referred to a specialist. I don't believe that it is entirely behavioral anymore when I counted him head-banging about 30 times one morning and that was with me trying to intervene and get him to stop - and a lot of tears to boot.

In happier news, his imagination is taking off. The other night he took the potty seat from the bathroom and turned it into a race track for his car. He loves matchbox cars now, and often has a fistful of them. We have been taking the preliminary steps to potty-training, and he is very very excited about it. He points out the potty and says what it is quite proudly every time he is in the bathroom. Watching him trying to sit on the little kid's potty we have is HILARIOUS because he over-thinks every thing and tries different ways of sitting on it instead of just...sitting on it. Often he ends up standing in the bowl looking confused :)

He had this odd mystery rash - and Grayson had a few spots too. Turned out it was impetigo! YIKES. He got hit with a bad case of it, and both boys were on antibiotics which cleared it up quickly. Easton was a champ when taking that very disgusting medicine. Mike said they can put a man on the moon but they can't make medicine taste better for little kids! :)

Easton loves bananas, strawberries, peanut butter sandwiches, goldfish crackers and cheese nips. He doesn't have too big of a sweet-tooth - a couple bites, and he is good :)

He LOVES Thomas but his favorite is Percy or (Cee-Cee) as he calls him. He still loves the cows and the cats at Grandpa and Grandma's. His favorite person in the world right now - besides "Daddy" who he asks for every single morning is his "Caw-Caw" - my dad. Easton also loves his "Sray-son" or just "Gray" - not sure why he doesn't just say Grayson.

He had his very first dentist appointment, and he did great! He even made a little friend in the waiting room named Roman and they played trucks quite nicely together. :)

Easton is hilarious, cuddly and when he is happy, he is the happiest, sweetest kid. :) Easton, we love you when you're happy and sad, crying and mad, we love you...well you know the rest of the book because it's your favorite right now. :)

Picture Credit: My Mom!