Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Not Such a Baby Anymore!

My littlest baby is turning 2!



If I had a thousand words I'm not sure I could adequately describe you, my beloved 3rd child on the eve of your 2nd birthday:
  1. To say you have made life interesting would be an understatement!
  2. On any given day you can be found bathing in a mud puddle, sweeping the backyard in only your diaper, walking around in your big brother's batting helmet, dumping popcorn kernels all over the kitchen floor, and running wildly through the house with your big brother and sister pretending to "Shoop!" the bad guys.
  3. Your clothes are usually dirty within 5 minutes of being put on you!
  4. You love to give and get hugs! Since you could just crawl, your routine has been: play for a few minutes, come back and hug Mommy, play for a few minutes, come back and hug Mommy. And your Mommy loves it!!
  5. Your drooling abilities rival most bulldogs I've met!
  6. You think you are at least 4 or 5 years old. Just the other day you were patting the seat of your big brother's 2 wheel bike and demanding, loudly, "Ride! Ride!" It took ten minutes to coax you onto the red tricycle instead.
  7. You were our first trip to the ER and we're worried you'll make that trip a regular occurrence.
  8. As the third child, you were supposed to stay a baby longer, but instead you crawled at 5 months and walked at 8 months!
  9. You love your "Brober" and "Sisser". Your big sister will probably never stop kissing you several times each day even when you are much bigger than she is, and just yesterday your Big Brother said you were "The Best Brother Ever!"
  10. You are loud and can be demanding, yelling "Pop-Art! Pop-Art!" over and over from your booster seat at the breakfast table as the toaster strives to toast faster just to stop the screaming.
  11. Be thankful you are the 3rd child. The first 2 children in this family were not given things like Pop Tarts for breakfast at your age! Then again, they didn't get ice cream at 8 months old either!
  12. Also, be thankful you are adorable because it endears you to people like your Sunday school teachers, pediatrician, grandparents and they never believe the bad things your parents say you do!
  13. We are thankful for the blessing of you! The joy, excitement, and hugs you've brought to our world drastically outweigh every gray hair!

Find more Thankful Thursday at Women Taking a Stand, Thousand Words Thursday at Cheaper Than Therapy, and Thursday {Thirteen} at Happy to be @ Home.

22 comments:

  1. Aaww...I keep going awww as I read on. What an adorable 2 year old you have! Such blessings!

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  2. Rofl... my kids do stuff like this too with their baby doll toys. Such a sweet post!

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  3. Children are truly a blessing from the Lord. What a cutie on the eve of his birthday! Happy TT! -Laurie

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  4. What a wonderful tribute to your son!

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  5. what a fun picture & a nice tribute for him to read back over in a few years!

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  6. Great post -- the pictures is priceless. TFS

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  7. The baby is turning 2! Oh how fun! Love the picture and the tribute.

    Happy ATWT!

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  8. Too precious! #5 had me laughing so hard. Happy Thankful Thursday!

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  9. What a sweet post! I have 3 children, too, and there's just something about that third baby ...

    Enjoy all those hugs!

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  10. Where does time go, indeed?? What a neat post. It will be fun to post such tributes at their graduation party some day in the DISTANT future. :)

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  11. I'm kind of tearing up a bit. This is such a sweet post! It's hard to take in just how fast our little ones grow up. It's so good to be able to hold onto the little things. I love that you shared this!

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  12. What a beautiful tribute to your son. My son just turned 10, and I did a tribute, too. :D

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  13. I so know where you are coming from. My baby turns two tomorrow. Saddens me that he has grown up so fast. Great post!

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  14. This is a great list - such fun things to look back on later. My baby (#4 and the caboose) turned 2 today as well. Ah, these birthdays are bittersweet.

    Sharon

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  15. i keep finding my three year old in the baby's jumparoo--they grow too fast (and i think no matter how much they want to be "big" there are parts of them that want to stay little too!)

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  16. Your baby is now 2...awesome and sad at the same time! Looks like you won't be needing that swing for a while...

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  17. Sounds like a verrrrry special kid...and Pop Tarts are sounding really good right now. Thanks a lot for making a preggo chick hungry in the middle of the night! lol

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  18. This one sounds like my number six and soon to be four year old son. I thought he was the only one of his kind.

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