25 months

In two weeks you turn 2yrs 2 months, so I better get your 2yrs 1 month post completed! We celebrated our third easter with you little bunny! You are just getting cuter and cuter and funnier and funnier! The biggest news is that we finally moved out of our old house. It was an amazing 10 years in the beautiful home we built. But dada has been working hard at building us our "new house" as you say. You have adjusted to this change like a champ, and the best distraction of all was a week long visit from Grandma Lama (you call her Gwama Wama) and Lisa. We spent the entire week down at the Hilton and you loved the slides (Tubey one mama!) and the sand bottom kiddie pool (you laughed so much when Grama Lama talked about the Kiddie Pool and we realized you thought it was KITTY POOL! haha). Other funny stories: I made you popcicles and you had a fit when I tried to explain that they take a few hours to freeze and that right now they were just juice. We distracted you with a swim session at the pool and when we came home you excitedly exclaimed "Pocksibles done! Juice frozen!" and when I couldn't take the popsicle out of the mold Grama Lama decided to run some hot water over the mold and you cried "NO! Not HOT water! COLD water! I want ICE not juice!" It was sooo funny.
You love pretending to be a meow kitty kitty. You always say "Nice and cozy" when you snuggle up somewhere. You love listening to me tell the Ice Age squirrel story (about the mommy squirrel deciding where to put the couch and she says "mmm uh uh!" and points across the room and the daddy squirrel says "MMM??!" you just laugh and laugh and say "Again story mama!". You don't like the idea of baths or showers except at the beach park, but once you are in the bath you have a great time. You are awesome at using the potty. Everytime you go you say 'fruit snack!" and run to me for a fruit snack treat. Anytime you see us using the potty you say "Yay Daddy! Good job! Fruite snack!" This week you are just happy using the potty and don't expect a fruit snack each time. I just ordered you training underwear since you are doing such a good job!
You do NOT like the wind. Anytime you get upset or uncomfortable or insecure you say "Tummy hurt!" But I think it's just your way of explaining that you are scared. Playing with a pinwheel in the wind and calling wind a big fan has helped quite a bit. This week in Waika"blowa" didn't seem to phase you at all.
We've had a few playground incidences and you don't like playing with others at the moment. In fact if you are playing happily with your excavators and dingos that we bring to the playground and another child approaches you you start singing the "clean up" song and want to just pack up and head back to the car so we can go home and you can play with your toys without sharing! There was a 40 pound 1 year old who pushed you and you would cry "Baby coming!!" anytime he got near. There were also some rough but adorable big girls being too rough around you and Phoenix and when they left you said "Girls GONE! Yay!!"
We had an interview for your new preschool that you will start in August. Dada said he ALMOST started crying when we walked through the door. We just can't believe you are old enough for SCHOOL! It is such a wonderful space and when I took you a week later to drop off some papers you said 'Mama! So nice!! Alistair go play!" I think you will like it there! You will go 3 days a week for just 3 hours. I am the one who's not ready for a full week day! hehe.
You LIVE for the dingo. And when you hear it you say "Dingo running! Ride dingo?" Dada gives you rides and you've learned all the controls and when you play dingo with your toys you say "Lift! Scoop. Dump. Forward. Up. Down!"
When you are having a fun time and I come near you will say "Bye bye mama. Go do piano"
You love Hungry Hungry Caterpillar and will say "Hungry Caterpillar build a cacoon. Turn into beeeautiful bafly!" When Grama Lama came to visit she asked "what does a caterpillar build?" and you took awhile to think about it and glanced over at dada's desk and you said "A...ca...omputer!!" and we laughed! So now you always say a caterpillar builds a COMPUTER! to be silly!
You don't like the word no and it's hard to explain or reason with you, but you are easily distracted onto the next activity. You are very sensitive and have the saddest pout and big eyes when we have to do our serious mean mommy/daddy voice. But for the most part you are hilarious little guy with a HUGE personality. We just all love watching you talk and tell stories and strut around the world.