B @ 2.5

One of the perks of giving birth to my second child was that I was prepared for that unbelievable moment when you meet your child for the first time. I knew to relish in it. Hold onto it. To cherish and remember the way my cuddly little boy just peacefully looked at me like I was exactly who he was expecting to see. And I let myself love B completely right from the start.  He was such a calm, cool, and collected little baby.  He was perfectly content...I'm sure my memory has rewritten history but I don't even remember him crying...he was so easy to settle down.  Those are nice memories to have, but things have changed.

Now that B is rounding the bend to two and a half he is no longer calm and collected, but he is definitely still cool.  B knows how to enjoy life.  He really loves life and his winning personality just invites you in to love things as much as he does.  At least that is what he is like most of the time.  Other times B loses his mind.  After all, he is two.  He is testing us and trying out all of the stereotypical two year old behaviours that he can think of.  So we are trying to weather the storm...there seems to be a ray of sunshine behind every thunder cloud. 

There are so many cute and comical things B does in a day, it is hard to keep track but here's a few:

• He doesn't walk anywhere, he puts his little hands up and pumps his arms and runs as fast as he can. 
• He is into introducing himself to people by boldly saying, "Hi, I'm B what's your name?"
• He is a total "me-do" insisting on independence in all his daily tasks from tooth-brushing to putting on his shoes.
• He has one-sided conversations with his toys, like today in the car holding a superman figurine saying, "Supaman - you have booooots, you have undawaya, you have a cape, you have awms..."etc...
• He easily scales to the top of the monkey bars with no fear while I nervously spot him from below.
• If I'm holding him in my arms he grabs both sides of my face and enthusiastically smooches both of my cheeks with a loud, "mwah! mwah!" and then laughs hysterically.

This kid is growing up fast!  Always trying to keep up with his older sister and always keeping us entertained...or at least busy!