2.5

Eddie turned two and a half this week!! And in true blog fashion, I've decided to share some fun Eddie facts.

-the picture above? almost every picture of eddie is identical. silly smile, scrunched up nose and some random food bits on his face. no matter how much I scrub, this child's face is never clean.

- he loves to tell people that his name is eddie and that he's two and a half. he loves to talk to anyone, and happily holds full conversations with all who will entertain him.

- he loves to play pretend, although right now I'm pretty sure it is more of him imitating things we've seen. he plays a ton of hockey and basketball and has not stopped cooking since we took him to Mr. Samuari's (a cook in front of you type of place). he also loves playing doctor and loves to fix things around the house.

- if you ask him what his favortie things to play are, he says "toys"....if you ask him his favorite thing to eat he says "food". both are pretty right on. while hockey is still his love, he plays a ton of different things all day long, and he can never pick just one....hockey is played while his food is in the oven cooking, basketball is played until a hockey puck is found, trucks are played until one needs to be fixed with some tools, things are colored until he decides to read books or eat or play hockey or chase the dogs or so on and so fourth. his mind goes a mile a minute and it is impossible to keep up. "food" is right on because my child eats anything and everything, and while we have found a love of sweets, he still happily snacks on cucumbers and carrots and fruits galore.

- he is learning sooo much - from colors to numbers to spelling his name, he always wants to know how many there are, what color they are and WHY? oh, how many times I hear WHY, MOMMA? in a day.

- Happy = very happy. Sad = very sad. The inbetween is just mellow, chill eddie, but the in between happens rarely. I'm happy to say that Eddie is AWESOME lately, saying thank you for things we've gotten him (even things from weeks ago), loving hard, playing hard, and just being funny. He says the greatest things, gives the best hugs and is just fun to be around (most of the time).

- he's (kinda) potty trained. when he wants to be. he also has a new found love of going to the bathroom where ever we are. yay for puplic toilets.

- he loves his daddy, asks for him first thing in the morning, says he misses him throughout the day and squeels when he comes home.

- at the doctor today, he was 37lbs and 37 inches tall. and I didn't even ask what percentile that was because I was too busy laughing at my son, happily answering the doctor's questions (all questions were directed at eddie today and it was the funniest thing I've ever been a part of in my life). he loves his doctor, and we joke that he is gets more excited over the doctor than he did over Santa.

- two and a half is pretty awesome. its frustrating, tiring and sometimes and emotional rollercoaster, but that all gets washed away on the good days, the days that make me feel like a successful parent, the days that make me feel like the luckiest lady in the world because I have eddie.

{and funny that this is posted right above the post saying that he was a holy terror?  i think so. because it totally goes to show the rollercoaster we're on.}