TWO YEARS OLD!

Somehow a year flew by! Make that TWO years flew by! You are a two year old now and I just can't believe it! We had the BEST birthday party in the world last weekend. We had it on Saturday, which was the day of the week you were born. (Somehow your birthday on Monday just didn't feel like your birthday, since I so vividly remember it being a Saturday!) We had a bouncy house which was a hit for all ages; a Steel Drum jam along with me, a bean bag toss (I had to make my own since the one I ordered didn't arrive on time!); a water table with tons of bath toys; a slide, swing, bubble mower, excavator yard activities; a blow up pool that squirted water; Dr. Seuss themed snacks, Dr. Seuss themed goodie bags, pizza, and carrot cake cupcakes! The weather was PERFECT (and Waimea can be so unpredictable!) The backyard of Michael and Tutu's house was the perfect setting. Everyone had the best time!
New sayings and doings at age 2:
You constantly ask everyone "How you doing?" in the cutest voice. Sometimes you'll say "You you doing? Pretty good!"
You say "thank you so much" to Erica and other people when we run errands in town.
When I'm done teaching I open the door and you squeal while running towards me "Mommy done!"
You still love the game "Sit down pens" in daddy's office.
You are obsessed with minions. You said "Daddy purple minion" the other day.
You say "Oh no! Happened!" if you notice something askew
You sing the song "Happy Birthday to you". At your party you sang along with everyone and made everyone laugh. Your clap at the end of the song was the BEST.CLAP.EVER!! I have it on video! I almost cried seeing you so incredibly happy.
You sing a few words of Eensy Weensy Spider. And still love it when I do the motions to the song.
At naptime you like to chant in a monotone voice. Last week you said "Arrrrrrrr. Noise dada makes" (I think you were talking about a saw). You also said "Chainsaw. Dada building new house!"
I have to hide veggies in your mac and cheese and poke. I take frozen organic veggies and put them in the food processor and pulverize them into a fine dust and then sprinkle it on your dinner to get veggies in your diet! You LOVE poke. I make smoked salmon poke for you with sesame oil and soy sauce because I do worry about tuna and mercury!
You still like to say "Umm, think so. Probably" (imitating us on the phone).
You love Movie night! Ice Age! Minions. I now have to negotiate and do bath time first (you are very anti bath at the moment!) before movie night. Otherwise I'll never bathe you. Somedays you sleep 7-7 (but whenever I brag about this we seem to have rough nights, so knock on wood!)
I cherish our mornings with you. One of us goes in your room and you say "Mama upstairs! Tigger bup upstairs!" (or dada upstairs if it's me getting you in the morning). Then you drink your tigger bup in bed with us and play for about a half hour. You love to pretend you are a kitty. Or hop on pop. We enjoy you so much Alistair. To our brightest star on his second birthday. We love being your mama and dada more than we could have ever imagined! It is such an awesome gift to be able to raise such a kind, loving, polite, gentle, hilarious, sensitive, busy, friendly and happy soul. You inspire us, challenge us, and fill our hearts so full of love it leaves us breathless. 
(Your birth date is technically Monday the 23rd, but you were born the 3rd Saturday of March and we had a wonderful party for you with all your friends today!)

Soon to be The Big TWO!!!

I know we still have 2 weeks to go, but I had to write down some of your latest sayings and doings!
You have been telling "stories" lately. My favorite highlight was one night you were standing next to your slide last night and you were telling daddy and me a story about a piggy. It went something like this:
"Piggy. Dark. Night. Dada bite. Piggy Dada bite in night!" interspersed with lots of munchkin mumble. And I said "the daddy piggy bites?' and you looked at us with wide eyes and said "Yyyah!" We of course cracked up!! You answer with that funny dutch accent "Yyyah!" for lots of things which makes us laugh. The other day dada said "When will this rainy cold weather end!" and you mumbled something that sounded like "blah blah blah week" and I said "Another week??" and you looked at me point blank and said "Yyyah?"
When I'm all done teaching and I walk out of my room you smile and cheer "Mama all DONE!!!" It's so cute! You also say "Mama teaching! Dada working!"
The other day I was pretending to talk on the Elmo phone and I was talking about all the things we had done that day. And you were contributing and recalling things we did earlier that day! Your memory is AMAZING! You even remember things from January on our trip to Seattle. "Grama. Tunnel. Cars. White car. Lights. Dark tunnel! Eagle fly!"
We went to visit Great Granda Gigi Ruth on PopPop's 90th b-day. You got to play with her precious rock collection and scoop them up and put them in a candle and then dump them out and repeat the whole process (kept you amused for 20 minutes easy!) and to this day any time I mention Ruth you say "Gigi. Rocks. Candle!"
You discovered picking things up with your toes! You do a super cute excavator impression of "Beep beep, DUMP!" You like to push things around like your slide and say "Beep beep EKA VADDER!!"
You discovered movie night on our giant projector. And everything you request "Movie Night!!" and sometimes we DO do movie night! And one night you squealed "Movie Night!! Mama cut the pizza!!" (even though we weren't having pizza that night!) You love the minions from Despicable me. And most night we request "Movie Night! Minions!" But you are also VERY sensitive to anything scary or upsetting. I don't want to create nightmares, and I've noticed a HUGE difference between G and PG movies!
OK what's up with the super sonic, ear blasting, high pitched screaming for no reason?? I'm trying a new method of just straight up ignoring the behavior and not reacting to it at all since nothing else seems to work. And by the way, I seriously googled "is it ok to use a water spray bottle to squirt at toddlers to deter bad behavior". I guess it's really frowned upon :)
Knock on wood. You are sleeping 7pm-7am and when we come get you you will say "Tigger Bup, upstairs dada!" (or mama if it's daddy walking into your room). Meaning you want to drink your Tigger Cup of milk upstairs in bed with us.
You detest baths and showers at the moment and I have to force bathe you every 2-3 days. I swear boys need a bath twice a day, but that's just me....
Your FAVORITE food is poke, pinapple, ham, eggs, pears, banana, bread, and cheese. But getting you to eat has been a challenge lately. I swear you would just drink whole milk and be 100% content.
You LOVE breakdancing. You ask me and Grandpa Michael to breakdance. I think I'd break my back trying to even pretend.
You have been using your potty to go peepee often. One night during nudie movie night you flew off the couch and ran to use your potty! You get pee pee treats (goldfish).
You say the FUNNIEST things on the baby monitor when you have quiet time. "No cookie monster. No eat cookie. Fox, no drink pee pee. No pee pee on floor". Putting you to bed now, all we have to do is lovingly say "Mama's right here. Dada's right now" and you will chant those words and also include people like "Yay Yay, Tutu, Poppy, Grandma, Michael, and Panda riiiiight here".
What a huge difference two years make!! I love to compare today's pictures/videos with last years pictures/videos and I'm just so amazed at how much you've changed. In my mind, you have always been as you are today. I hardly remember it being any different. I'm so glad I took so many pictures and videos, and yet it still just doesn't seem like enough. I wish I was able to record every second of every day!