A New Adventure: Terrible 2s? We're LOVING It!

My little buddy. He is polite, sweet, cooperative, loving, funny and fun. He loves to laugh and do anything outside. There are a few two-year-old things we're working on like sitting to eat at dinner for more than 2 minutes, throwing food in the car and a couple of biting incidents, (he's just tried that one out on me and on himself, thank goodness.) Most of all, I am so very proud of him.

Funny little things I want to remember about these days:

when repeating what he says to clarify, he says, "OKAY!" like it was your idea and it sounds fantastic. (You want to watch Cars? OKAY!)
ability to use his schema and connect "bad guys" in books..."He is like Chick Hicks."
when playing with his toys I often hear him say, "Have a great day!"
while listening to books, he thinks the characters are looking at him, "He's looking at me!" He also does this with animals, real and stuffed.
When I say,"we can do that tomorrow," he says "no, today."
12 weeks into the pregnancy, my dr. suggested I not pick him up as much due to cramping. Ha. He still says "hold you mama." I will never resist that, so I hold him and tell him "I love to hold you." He is able to climb into his car seat and booster seat at the table all by himself now. In fact, he does NOT want help. "Jeffrey do it." Mom said I used to say, "Poddy do do." heehee
He has woken up a couple of times and gotten out of bed and we just hear a nice little knocking on his door
when going in to his room in the morning he says, "Mornin!" or "It's mornin!" or "It's morning. I waked up!" He says "I wake up in the morning," and at night he says he thinks it's morning because he doesn't want to end the day. He also says "good mornin'" to the deer on walks and animals at the zoo. "Good mornin, deer. Good mornin, guys!"
Many nights we sit on the front porch after dinner and eat watermelon. The deer come visit and we watch the sun go down behind the trees. Such a peaceful way to end the day.
He walks into the kitchen and says, "What are making for dinner?"
I love his happy walk/run. He's had it for a long time. He goes around kicking his feet out like an Irish jig. So happy.
cantaloupe is called camelope
He still says "I want Jesus," when I put him to bed. I sing Jesus loves me and he says, "More Jesus," or "Another Jesus." Then I sing Jesus loves the little children and others. He started saying "Jesus poder!" Sounded like he was speaking Spanish. I could not figure it out. It took me a few nights to realize he was saying, "Jesus put it there," part of a song I sing him, "I've got joy down in my heart..."
We did a yoga video AJ gave us and really enjoyed it. We told Brant about it when he got home and Jeffrey actually remembered some of the moves and can stand on one leg! He also showed him the shoulder rolls and tree pose.
When hiding he says, "where is me?"
after a shower or bath he says, "Hold me like a bebe!" and wants the towel around him, swaddled up and cuddled. After a few seconds he tells me, "No, I'm a big boy."
If Lacey ever whines, he says, "It's okay, Lacey." (He's calling he by her correct name now too, no more Cece. His "Ls" at the beginning of a word sound like Ys, but seem to be consistant Ls within a word.)
Apparently we get a lot of UPS/FedEx boxes. I opened the door, peeked out and closed it the other day. He was watching, shrugged and he said, "No box."
Bo gave him a bunch of old Cars character toy cars that he was finished with. He loves them. He'll hold 2 in each hand and say, "I got my new guys."
He manages to carefully inspect spines of books on the library shelves and can choose books we have liked before or that he recognizes in some other way, tiny pictures or cool writing. He has chosen some great books!
Every once in a while, he'll bump something or fall and say, "I think I'm ok." Sometimes he says it in what seems to be out of the blue. I tell him, "I KNOW you're ok, You're better than ok. You're awesome!"