Ike is TWO!

My baby is 2!  I cannot believe it, this happened way too fast.  He is growing into such a fun, crazy, energetic kid and I love it.  His vocabulary expands every day, and he is pretty much to the point where you can have a reasonable conversation with him.  Although he usually only wants to talk about golf carts or lawn mowers. :)  Here's a video of him chatting.  I really treasure the mornings that I have with Ike when Dave is at preschool.  We have all kinds of fun together, and it is great to have some one-on-one time with him.

We had two "parties" for Ike-one on his birthday, and one on Sunday so great-grandparents Mary and Dave could come celebrate too!

He really enjoyed blowing out the candles!

















His last monthly sign!

His cake.  Supposed to be a lawn mower (mowing the last bit of grass).  Ike kept calling it a combine.  Close enough.

Ike with his pal Greggy.

Ike and Gamma.

Love this picture of grandpa Dave and Ike!









Now for Ike updates.  We  missed his doctor's appointment because I was sick, so I don't know his stats yet.  He very much enjoys playing and wrestling (especially with Dave) and loves to play with anything with wheels.  His best buds are Lewis and Bennett.  His favorite TV show is Bubble Guppies, but he still will only watch about 5 minutes of an episode before running off to do something.  He loves balloons, but really only to pop them.  He screams at the top of his lungs when he doesn't get his way.  Love that feature  :)  Anytime someone leaves our house he insists on giving them "huggies".  This can really prolong someone's departure since it often takes multiple hugs!

Ike loves to help cook.  Josh and Ike have been getting into making eggs lately and it's super adorable.  He enjoys painting and coloring and has produced many masterpieces for us already.  And he loves to sing/play guitar.  Here is a video of the boys singing a church song.  Ike really gets into it!

Ike playing with bath paints.

The boys and their goggles.

Ike with the big pumpkins.









He begs to go to the pumpkin patch daily (we go about once a week).  If you have a phone out or your computer on, he runs over and asks (screams at you, whatever) to put on videos of tractors or lawn mowers.  Have I mentioned that he gets into everything?  I just had to stop him from draining all the water out of the water cooler just now.  Ike is definitely not boring!  He certainly makes our lives more interesting and it has been such a joy watching him grow up so far.  I can't wait to see what the next years hold for us!