What an adventure life has been this last year! You have quickly changed from a small little babykins to a charming little boy. You keep your Mama and Daddle on our toes, and we attempt to keep up with your crazy amounts of energy and verve.
I am working on collecting all the cute little sayings and stories about you which I have posted on Facebook (curious how dated and quaint this reference might be if you read this some day in the future!).
For now, I am going to list 30 things I love you about you sweet boy, as you are now 30 Months old today (don't worry, I tell people you are 2 and a 1/2 years old:).
1. Your inner joy; you spread joy wherever you go! I often catch your little hand waving to other people in their cars, and you say "We need to wave, mama. People smile and happy!"
Joyful lad - July 25, 2013
2. You adore looking at books. You will even stare at pages with no pictures, with a quizzical look on your face as you study the page. I hope this habit stays with you the rest of your life; be a voracious reader my love!
Reading in bed - July 30, 2013
3. Love the way you say "Amer-key-ca" for America and "Captain Amer-key-ca"
Napping with the Amer-key-ca shield - July 9, 2013
4. Your hair; you get complements all the time about your "rock star" hair!
Cowboy rock star hair - July 7, 2013
5. Your sense of adventure; you run to the door every day and say "Let's go on and adventure!"
Boating Adventure - July 2013
6. When Daddle says "I'm going to eat a baby." You exclaim "No Daddle, only kisses!"
Alki Beach - August 18, 2013
7. Although you have tons of natural energy, you are also super chill and go with the flow, allowing your mama to play dress up and grand imagination play!
Super A - August 14, 2013
8. You are such a creative little man, and come up with clever imagination games! The oven mitts have served as lobster claws, as alligators and even giganotosaurus:)
Lobster boy - August 25, 2013
9. Your investigative nature; you are continually asking questions, observing and learning!
Observing the rides at the fair - Sept 9, 2013
10. Your love of animals. A continuous refrain these days "I want to go see all the animals. Let's go to the zoo. Let's go outside, I need to see more animals. (Your favorites are the fox, polar bear, baby beluga, lion, and elephants).
What does the cutie say? Sept 10, 2013
11. I love your "near" words, such as "rhino-ross-ur-us," "actionnauts" and "tyra-no rex."
Walking with dinos. May 25, 2014
12. You love your fruits and veggies! As you ate a handful of spinach this morning you told me "I eating plants like T-rex."
Apple thief
Kale! June 6, 2014
13. Love your ability to pull off any look, hipster, preppy, hippy, sporty - as someone told me recently, you have swagger kid.
Ready for church - Sept 29, 2013
Stylin'. April 28, 2014
April 2014
14. Your kisses; you give them freely and liberally! You also request kisses too, which is one of my favorite requests! When you have a "bump ouchie" and we give you kisses you exclaim "That's better!" Daddle and you come up with special, designer kisses too! My favorite is your bubble kiss! You lean in for a kiss and the kiss pops like a balloon!
Kisses! Oct 9, 2013
"I want to give baby Mingus a kiss!" March 30, 2014
15. You are such a social fellow, you adore spending time with your buddies!
Playing racing cars with Jack! June 2013
Spirited discussion with Jordan. June 2013
Fun time with the girls! Oct 12, 2013
16. Love, love, love your cuddles! Sometimes you use cuddles as "reason" to stay up past your bedtime (clever my lad, clever). How are we supposed to resist your beautiful brown eyes and the request to "Cuddle for just little bit longer, mama."
Cuddlebug Carlson - Oct 13, 2013
17. Your sense of humor; especially when you think you are funny. You had a gag of pulling your hand into your sleeve and saying "Hand go?" then making your hand "reappear" which was met with your uncontrollable belly laughs!
Hand go? Oct 16, 2013
18. Your expressions; you kill me kiddo. I particularly love your "shocked" face, which you accompany with the word "shocked!" And when you wink you say "wink, wink."
Shocked! Oct 20, 2013
19. You are such a hugger. You hug everyone, all the time, even when they don't want the hug (some people have bubbles:). You even hug kiddos at the playground if they are crying. Such a giving heart!
Hugs! Nov 9, 2013
20. Your eyes, your gorgeous brown eyes, which are sparkle with merriment.
Soft bunny eyed boy. Nov 22, 2013
21. Your gentle nature; you are so kind and gentle with little ones (and rough and tumble with bigger boys:)
Playing with Cousin Emma - Nov 23, 2013
Cousin Emma and Cousin Elise fun! April 2014
22. Your passion; you let us know what you are thinking and feeling all of the time. We just have to work on refining this gift a bit buddy:)
Parada Kung Fu Panda! Nov 28, 2013
Seahawks win! Boom Seahawks! Feb 2, 2014
23. Your love for your Daddle is so evident; you want to be just like him. Your Daddle is an amazing example, you are one very blessed little boy!
Morning stretches! Nov 30, 2013
Snuggles with Daddle. June 8, 2014
24. Your sense of family; you came up with this amazingly sweet and beyond precious "family hug." Out of your sweet heart you started saying "1,2,3 hugs!" If one of us is missing, you call Daddle or me over so we can have our trio hug:) You still say "Mama hold you," which is what I said when I was little! Although you are growing bigger and stronger, I always want to hold my darling boy.
Christmas lighting ceremony - Nov 30, 2013
25. Your helpful spirit; you especially love cleaning up, and sometimes overly concerned with making sure items make it to the rubbish...even if they are not rubbish! You also love applying stickers as if they are band aids and saying "Are you better Daddle, are you better?"
Helping with the Advent Calender - Dec 2, 3013
"That's better." May 24, 2014
26. Your appreciative spirit; you like to take your time savoring new experiences! Whenever we do something for you, you always say "Oh, thank you!" For your second birthday I told everyone to get you books and you slowly, and loving studied each page pointing out all the contents! Your gift to others was your joy receiving their gifts; an appreciate spirit is an amazing blessing.
27. Your problem solving skills; you are continually experimenting and finding creative ways to arrive at your goals!
Opening presents, survivor style. Dec 25, 2013
28. Your love of music; you constantly ask for "More songs please, mama!" And after seeing a violinist playing recently you exclaimed "Mama, I need a violin!"
In the moment. Jan 21, 2014
29. Your ability to slow down and rest in the quiet places. You have an amazing ability to draw others into these little moments. Thank you.
My heart. Feb 9, 2014
Restful baby. April 23, 2014
30. Your spontaneous nature; you live in the moment and enjoy every minute and your smile is ever present!
Joy! April 9, 2014
Dancing! March 8, 2014
Smiles, always smiles! May 20, 2014
Two and a 1/2 Years Old! June 9, 2014
Mama and Daddle love you endlessly!
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