Almost TWO!

On April 1st, Alex was 22 months old. Hard to believe I am planning a birthday party and in two short months he will be TWO. We are so blessed by this sweet boy! Bless his heart, he doesn't get near the solo blog posts like Will did. Life is moving quickly and we are just trying to keep up! He keeps us on our toes though, and I did want to take note of a few cute things that he is doing/saying that makes our days with him so sweet!

Alex has really started talking over the past two weeks. Nothing major....probably words most other kids start saying soon after they are one :) But Alex is like his brother was and is a man of few words. He can say: mama, dada, hot, night night, lovey, car, go go go, yay!, uh oh, no, mine, and piglet. I may have left a few out but I think I remembered the main ones.

 He can also quack like a duck and roar like a lion. When we go and feed the ducks he is constantly "ACK, ACK, ACK." Cracks me up!!

His favorite word as of late is MINE. He screams it all day long. Will screams it right back at him :) Poor Will....Alex wants most anything that he has at the moment. Will has learned that usually if Alex wants something, he will lose interest in about 10 seconds, so being a sweet brother he just hands it over (most of the time) and waits for Alex to move onto something else.

Alex is on a food strike. He used to be the best little eater. Here lately, all he seems to want is meat. Chicken fingers and hot dogs are his favorite and definitely a go-to food if we can't get him to eat anything else! He also likes rice, gogurt and squeezable fruit (because Mr. Independent can do these two himself), peanut butter and jelly, and broccoli.

Everything else is hit or miss...fruit is SO hard to get him to eat right now which is SO weird. He used to eat it all up and Will has always loved fruit so we are trying to get it into him any way that we can! In the morning, when I pour a bowl of cereal, I always pour more than I will eat because Alex ends up eating half of it. If you give him his own bowl of cereal, he wants nothing to do with it, but he will let you feed him yours all day long. He also loves snacks. The boy could snack ALL day!! He loves goldfish, ritz crackers, animal crackers, teddy grahams. You name it! We had to get one of those things to go on the door knob of our pantry because Alex kept opening the door and coming out with random snacks!

The kid LOVES his lovey. I am amazed that we haven't lost it by now. At home, it is always by his side. When we are out, we keep it tucked away, but close in case we need it :) Calms him right down....this is so new because Will has never latched on to anything like a lovey, and doesn't really like stuffed animals.

He loves books just like his brother! His favorites right now are Elmo Says, Ten Little Rubber Ducks, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, and Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See.

(at this point I think it is no secret that the kid loves his paci.....and we don't care enough right now to take it away!)
He has a hysterical personality that makes us laugh every day. He loves to dance and has a signature move that I wish could be described into words....but it just can't :)

He is the sweetest little boy. He is still a daddy's boy, but loves his mama and if he is sad, he wants no one to comfort him but me! He is care free and tender-hearted....but also rambunctious and does not like to be reprimanded! Time is going by WAY too fast for me to handle.

(This picture was taken towards the end of Easter lunch. His poor knee socks had cut off the circulation in his chubby little legs that he took it upon himself to scrunch those socks down to his ankles!!)