{Austin 23 Months}

Dear Austie,

What a fun loving, wild, happy, energetic, spunky, and sweet guy you are. You are one smart little guy, and always making us smile and laugh. You are a ham and you know it!

These days you can be found doing whatever your brother is doing. You want to be a 4 year old too, and you try to do it all. Sometimes you need to be reminded that you are in fact one years old.

You run super fast, climb, jump, and dance all over the place. You hear music, and you start moving.

You do a lot of pointing and grunting these days. That's usually how you get what you want. For those of us who know you, we can understand what you want. Sometimes it is frustrating for you and us, not knowing what you want, but your words have started coming along. You LOVE to repeat words, and we now can get you to repeat at least one new word every day. Thanks to your brother, your vocabulary is exploding. Gavin will say, "Hey Austie! Can you say STINK???" and you smile and say "Stink!" and then laugh. Then we all applaud you and tell you how proud we are. We clap and praise you, and you just soak it all up. Then we tell Ma what you can say. Then we tell Daddy. You are all smiles. You will now say Mama, Dada, Gaga (Gavin), Ma, Papa, stink, poo-poo, pee-pee, seed, uh-oh, fire (firetruck), wow, nay (we think its what you say for I don't know), Hawaii, Oh-hi (Ohio), baa (ball), baap (bath) and a million other things that I can't think of. Each day its a new word, and we are so proud! You can also say most letters too. You love A, B, C, D, E I, M, O, P, S, T, V, and Z. You are tyring to learn colors, and you will say boo for blue and een for green. You are coming along, and starting to talk! Occasionally you will also say the word when you want something opposed to grunting. YAY AUSTIE!

You are in mostly 2T, but now all your footed jammies are 3T. (the 2T was WAY too small...you are so tall and your feet are so big!) You are still in 2T pants, and some 2T shirts, but some are 3T. Thankfully all I have to do is go up in the attic to get your next size...the beauty of two boys:)

You are around 29 pounds? You eat like no other kid I have ever met. You eat about 5 meals a day, and probably 5 snacks. I am not kidding when I say you are always eating. You are ALWAYS in the cabinet wanting snacks, and you will just help yourself. You love your green smoothies, eggs, bacon, PB&J, pirate booty, all fruits, apple chips, any dried fruits, cheese, yogurt, water, and cereal. You name it and you will eat it. You are not a big fan of meat, and usually you just spit it out. (unless its chicken in soup) You prefer to eat any sweets or dessert we have in the house, and so we have to limit what we keep in the pantry, because you will find it!!! (And complain for hours if you can't have it!)

You love to run and play, ride bikes, play in outdoor kitchen with Gavin, cook with us in the kitchen, play iPhone games, and read books. Any book with a truck, bulldozer, or firetruck and you will want to read it. You say "choo-choo" for train and "Weeeeeeee" for firetruck.

You can now successfully ride your balance bike all the way to Hacienda and the park. The whole way. I can now take you and Gavin without the stroller! You put on your helmet and are off!

Still wearing diapers when we are out of the house, but when we are home you prefer to pee-pee in the toilet. Such a big boy!

We love you so so much Austie!!!

Love-
Momma