Things Mac ~ 2 years and 2 months

He has started talking in his sleep a little. Some of things he has said recently are (he always says the same sentence twice):
"No Grandma, don't get out the vacuum!"
"I need a diaper change."
"No Mommy, don't do that!"

He knows all the words and can sing all by himself the songs: "I am Child of God" and "I Love to See the Temple". And he knows basically all the words to alot of other Primary songs because we sing them constantly. Singing songs is his most common delay tactic in going to bed.

He goes back and forth with being a good eater and a picky eater. We are at a "picky eater" stage right now, and there are very few things he will eat. He basically lives off of oatmeal, bananas, toast, noodles, Jam sandwhiches and occasionally he will eat pears or peaches.

He has become quite the polite little boy, which makes me a proud Mommy! We have worked really hard with Mac on being polite. He almost always says "please" and "thank you". And if he doesn't say it all you have to do is ask him "what do you say?" to remind him. He says "no thankyou." when he doesn't want something. And he has just recently caught on to "excuse me" and "bless you".
We were visiting another Ward and when I went to pick him up from Nursery, the Nursery leader commented on what a polite little boy he is. That made my day.

Church wise, he goes to Nursery and stays in Nursery without a problem now. That makes for a happy Mommy too! Also, I almost never have to take him out of Sacrament meeting! I realized yesterday that this is due to alot of determination, for the last year and a half, on my part of never putting him down to play when I take him out of Sacrament meeting or any other time we were out in the hall and not in class. So all the pain and agony of holding a screaming, squirming little boy and my arms killing me by the end of church has totally paid off.

He is pretty obsessed with Thomas the Train right now, and basically knows the names of all the trains. He even knows the difference between all the blue trains (Thomas, Gordon, Edward). He also really likes his CARS cars: McQueen, Chick Hicks which he calls "Hicks" and The King  which he calls "Dinoco". He is funny because he can't just play with one of the cars or just one train. He has to have all three cars or he has to play with Thomas and Percy, not just one or the other.

He has finally learned the art of going on a walk. He used to beg the whole time for us to hold him, now he runs ahead of us like a little boy should. He also knows that he has to hold our hand when we go in the road.

There has been no potty on the potty in awhile. He became pretty defiant about it and is now most of the time defiant about getting his diaper changed in general. Although he has started the "hide-and-poop" recently.

He is back to taking 3 hour naps and sometimes longer, which makes me happy. But he isn't sleeping as well at night. He seems to be talking in his sleep and than at some point in the night he just wakes up and is awake talking for about an hour and then goes back to sleep.

He can now open doors. So keeping doors shut in the house no longer keeps him out of things, boo!

He knows all of his letters and their sounds. And even knows most of his colors when he wants to cooperate. We also recently learned that he knew what a triangle was without us teaching him (he probably learned it from Sesame Street). So I guess he is now ready to learn those. He also loves to point out letters when he sees them on things.

He seriously has a photographic memory! He doesn't foreget ANYTHING!

He usually talks about himself in Third person (is that right?) He will say "That's Mac's car!" Which brings me to him not wanting to share anything. He understands what sharing is but refuses to until I threaten to take away what ever it is he won't share. I know that this is normal behavior, but I won't allow my son to be bratty or impolite, not going to happen.

He has become shy when around other people. But once he warms up to them then he totally shows off and acts goofy. It is pretty funny to watch.

I love when he runs up to me and says "Mommy, I want a hug!" and then he will hug me and pat my back for like 30 seconds and then tell me "I yuv you Mommy!" There is nothing greater when being a Mommy than that!

He begs to go to Grandma and Grandpa's almost on a daily basis. Nothing is more exciting then his Grandmas and Grandpas.

He is getting his two year molars. He has one all the way through. And the other three are on their way!

When we are driving in the car he loves to tell us which way he wants us to go..."Go this way Momma!"

We are totally loving the age Mac is at right now, he can communicate with us and he loves to play and he just does and says the funniest things. Hubs and I were talking about the "terrible-twos" thing and we realized that with Mac it hasn't been all that bad because he has never been a "go-with-the-flow!" kid and we are used to the fit throwing because of that. Although he does throw a giant tantrum every once in awhile, but they are few and far between.

Speaking of huge tantrums...he threw a huge one at Walmart the other day. He got mad because I wouldn't go back and let him look at the trains and cars AGAIN. And it took me about 15 minutes to get him in his car seat because he was so hysterically mad. The only way I eventually got him in his car seat and buckeled was by pinning him down with my body. I was so worried that he was going to hurt himself or I was going to hurt him trying to get him in. He then continued to cry all the way home and got more mad when I tried talking to him or singing to him. And the only thing that made him happy again was when I put him on the couch to watch Caillou when we got home. And not 10 minutes after that it was like nothing even happened, he was as happy as can be.

Mac is such a wonderful, amazing kid! When I didn't think it was even possible, recently I realized that I am even more in love with this adorable boy of mine. I just seriously want to squeeze him and kiss him and hug him and cuddle him all day long, but he won't have anything to do with that most of the time. We feel so incredibly lucky to be his parents. And because of a few things that we have been involved with recently I have realized what a lucky kid Mac is to have a Mommy and Daddy and a stable, safe home where he is taught about love and life. And that is all because of his amazing Birthmother who wanted that for him. Mac is a lucky kid to have so many people that love him enough to give him the world and more!