2 Years!

I'm a bit late in posting this two year milestone update, since we were traveling on the boys' actual birthday. So they get a little extra credit, I guess :)

Also, I've totally accepted the reality that this blog is my children's baby book. If I haven't started a physical book after two years, it's not gonna happen. If you, my adoring public, enjoy reading along, so much the better!

Here are some of Gus and Gibson's latest developments.

Physical/Motor Skills
Climbing is still a favorite pastime. I took the boys to a new park a couple weeks ago. Gibson made a beeline for a plastic rock climbing structure and was on the top of it before I knew what was happening. Meanwhile, Gus was slipping off a faux rock and I was trying to catch him while keeping an eye on Gibson as he went for a huge slide. We all survived! Man, they are adventurous.

They are getting taller and can open some doors. This is not my favorite development. Commence next-level babyproofing!

They can sort of play catch now. They've always enjoyed throwing. Now, they can even manage to catch a ball, sometimes.

They can't really dress themselves, but at times they do take off their sandals or socks. (To clarify: I mean on different days. We do not wears socks + sandals because we are not dorky northwesterners ;) ) If they work together, they can take off their pants, but luckily they don't do it very often. They can't get their own shirts over their huge noggins yet.

Eating/Drinking
We let them drink from regular cups once in awhile, when we're outside and it's just water. They can sort of handle it, but splashing in the open water is also very tempting.

Their favorite foods lately (and how they pronounce them) are chicken (bok-bok), blueberries (boo-bey), frozen banana slices (na-na), cookies (coo-ey), yogurt (go-guh), popsicles (pah-ih), applesauce (ah), potatoes (tay-oh), and orange juice (joos).

Talking
As you can tell from the previous paragraph, they've learned lots of new words lately! They have a tendency to add an extra consonant sound before words that start with a vowel, like "bapple" for apple and "Melmo" for Elmo. It's cute :)

Sleeping
We're in a solid one-nap routine here. They sleep 11-12 hours at night and 2-3 hours for their afternoon nap, usually. Nap time has been closer to 2 hours lately. If you must know, I am in denial about the fact that they'll ever reach a no-nap stage. Naps forever!

Favorite Things
Animals! They love all things animal-related. On our recent trip, we got a little book with animal pictures that the love "reading" by loudly making all the animal sounds. It's a chorus of, "meow!" "ooh-ahh!" "hop!" "squawk!" "neigh!" etc, etc, etc.

They're big fans of toys with wheels that they can drive, or pull around, or ride on.

Not Favorite Things
Gus is going through a "I hate baths" phase of life. It's unpleasant.

They're both getting picky about eating vegetables. For example, if a pea tries to sneak into their other food, they point at it, look grossed out, and say, "pea! pea!" until I extract the offensive legume... Sometimes they do eat peas, but not very often anymore.