Durham is Two Years Old

Durham turned two years old on February 5th.  Our little man has quickly turned from being my baby to being a smart, feisty toddler.  It's hard to believe that last year he wasn't even walking yet. 

 

 

Some of his favorites: 

Food:  Hotdogs and pickles.  He's also quite a juice-a-holic.  This kid asks for something to drink every hour of the day.  If you don't answer in the way he wants, he'll SCREAM.  Ahh, two year olds.  He's also not very adept at using utensils yet.  We haven't even tried using big boy cups. 



He'll drink the juice in one gulp without stopping to breath.  Impressive, I know.

Television show:  Dora the Explorer.  He'll dance a celebratory dance if you turn it on.  He'll sing the opening song.  He loves to answer the questions. 

 

Movie:  Cars 1 and 2.  He now has Lightning McQueen shoes, clothes, bedding, and a Tow Mater talking truck.  He says, "I am SPEED!" often.  He can quote different parts of the movie.  If you think his celebratory Dora dance is something to watch, you should see the dance he does when "race car" comes on.  Whoa.  There isn't another movie that can capture his attention the whole time.  He will sit and watch these movies the whole way through. 

 

Activity:  Playing with Matchbox cars and the iPad.  He loves to line the Matchbox cars up, drive them along the wall in the hallway, and send them down the ramp he got for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa.  He's always asking to use the "puter" to play games.  His favorite iPad games also involve trucks.  He has a truck matching app that took him about a week to figure out on his own.  He wasn't interested in Mama teaching him how to match the cars.  He just wanted to flip the cards on his own and after a week began to discover they could be matched.   He also loves the play house app.  (He spends lots of time putting the rubber ducky in the toilet!)  He also plays with Ainsley's spelling app.  He uses his trial and error skills to place the letters in the right spots.  Tim and I are convinced he's a genius.  :)

 

Playing with a vehicle identification app.  The kid doesn't actually talk much, but he'll tell you what a forklift or concrete mixer are. 

 

Sayings: 

"Durham juice?" 

"NOOOOOOO!"

"Yummy good!"

"Delicious."

"Oh no!  Stuck!"

 

Jammies and Froggy. 

 

Stuffed animal:  Froggy wins.  He slowly became more attached to Froggy throughout the last year.  He likes to have Froggy when he sleeps.  Sometimes he has to have all of his stuffed friends with him for support.  It's awfully cute to see him coming down the hallway attempting to bring six stuffed animals with him when he wakes up in the morning.

 

Durham still is quite skeptical about shenanigans.  See the picture below.  His signature expression is the furrowed brow.  The shenanigans at hand in this picture?  Singing happy birthday. 



Why is everyone singing?  I'm not sure about these shenanigans. 

 

Durham is especially fond of leaving the house.  He doesn't get the opportunity to leave the house often.  He'll sit and look out the window often, hoping for a car ride.  We feel bad for him and load everyone up into the car just to drive around town for 20 minutes.  We typically hit up the covered bridge (TUNNEL??!!) for his ultimate amusement.  On one of these trips we passed a silver Aztek.  Durham said, "Mama's car?"  We had purchased a new car for me six months ago, but he remembered what my old car looked like. This kid LOVES cars and trucks.   

Planning his escape.

Freedom!