True Love

Tonight, AJ and I were going thru his HUGE basket of stuffed animals. I was setting them up to sit next to each other and he started hugging them all. He loved it! Then, I showed him his 4 doggie stuffed animals- and he associated them with Buster. So, he started to set them all up next to Buster. I tried really hard to get a good pic of him looking at me with Buster, but couldn't. This is a pretty good one though. They are truly, the best of friends!

Dying Easter Eggs

Last night Grandma came over and we attemped to dye Easter eggs. It was a lot of fun! And messy! Actually, it could have been MUCH messier. A friend of mine gave me an idea to put the hard boiled egg into a wire wisk and then AJ could dip the wisk into the dye. GREAT idea for someone his age. He had a good time, but got a little frustrated that we wanted to hold the bowl and ensure the dye didn't get ALL over the kitchen. We only dyed 8 eggs which was probably a few too many for him, but we moved it along quickly :)

Notice his green hand!

AJ's first dyed Easter Eggs!

After the eggs, we decided to do some finger painting- FUN!

Picture of the Day

He LOVES Pooh!

Easter Bunny!

He wasn't a huge fan of the Easter Bunny, but it was better than Santa! And he would ONLY sit with him if I was there too :)

Biting!

I can't even go into the details- it just makes me sick.... AJ bit a little girl yesterday. Yet another thing that makes me feel like Mother Of The Year.....

Not to make it seem better, but thankfully, he didn't break skin, but I did see teeth marks on her finger. I know kids go through this, but I was really hoping mine wouldn't.

UGH!

21 months!

A few more cute things:

AJ calls himself "EEEGGG". It's so cute! He will look at a picture of himself and say it, or recently he'll tell me "EEGG" is going to do something.

He's starting to put words together. Today, he said, "Bye Bye Daddy". In the recent past, he's been saying "Choo Choo, Bye Bye" or things like that- in the wrong order. And today, he started getting it right.

I love to watch him grow and learn!

New Fun Things!

Here are a few new fun things that AJ is doing:

* I taught AJ "Ring Around The Rosie" yesterday and it's his FAVORITE thing to do. He cracks up when we do it. And when we start, we do it 10+ times because each time "we all fall down" he quickly grabs my hands and says "please!" which means, "Mom, please get up so we can do it again!" He's fun:)

* AJ has started enjoying watching ME do things that he would typically do. He's got this little ride on giraffe that as you pedal, it plays songs and he can learn about animals. Well, he's been playing with it for months, but he's just starting to get how to pedal. Today, he asked ME to sit on it... He was DYING laughing when I sat on it (and of course I'm WAY too big for this and if I actually sat on it, I'd break it). So, now he goes over to it and hits the seat while saying "Mama!"

* His new favorite cartoon is Winnie The Pooh. He walks around saying "Pooh!". It's a ton of fun trying to figure out if he needs to poo, has already pooed, or if he wants to watch Pooh....

* He ate marshmallows today for the first time at Bop Pa's. I really didn't think that he'd like the texture, but of course he LOVED them! However, we went to a birthday party this afternoon and I was going to let him have birthday cake- something he really never eats... He wouldn't even try it!

* While AJ is still completely into trains, he's starting to really love airplanes and trucks...ANY kind of truck... Trash truck, cement truck, fire truck, dump truck... Oh, and he loves the snow blower... When he sees on he just blows with his lips- so cute!