Lucas enters the Turbo Twos

Who are we kidding, Lucas entered the Turbo Two's long ago. I say Turbo Two's instead of Terrible Two's because he just go's and go's and go's and destroys everything in his path!

The day of Lucas's birthday started off how all birthdays around her usually start. With a donut. Preferably one as big as your head and with "prinkles" on it. We even walked in the stroller to go get the donut which is a treat in itself. He probably ate about 1/3 of this in his first sitting, then another 1/4th later in the day and I think Jaxton finished it off. Middle child, scrounging for anything he can get. 

After Jaxton left for school I tried to get some good pictures of the birthday boy in his birthday shirt, but he was just in a goofy mood- maybe from all the sugar he had just consumed- and so these were the results. At least they are an accurate representation of how he is. 

He needs a haircut.....

As a special birthday treat I didn't make him go to the gym with me. He HATES the day care at the gym. Well, it's more like he hates kids his own age.  He stayed home with Patrick who was working a late shift that day and played on the tablet which is his current favorite activity. 

He had a nap and then threw a MAJOR tantrum when he woke up all because I asked him to come eat dinner. How dare I. He's going through a phase right now where he hates sitting down to eat dinner. He's ok with breakfast and lunch but dinner as soon as the prayer is over he will take maybe 1 bite and then say "I get down?" over and over and then scream when he can't get down.
This particular tantrum was quite long and included him wanting to go outside (family rule, no playing outside unless you eat dinner) It lasted quite a long time too, including 2 trips to the garage (time out spot) for screaming. Then suddenly it passed and he climbed up and ate an entire plate of spaghetti on the "You are special today" plate.
Two's. What can you do. 

His cake did not turn out well, I blame out dying oven for that one, but while it didn't look good I hear it tasted great. He ate it all. 

His special day ended with a trip to Lowes, no really, that's his favorite place to go, while I was at school. We had gone to Toys-R-Us earlier in the week and let him pick out a toy which he thinks needs to charge like the tablet does so whenever we are tired of hearing it we just tell him it needs to charge and he's cool with that. 

Other things about Lucas at two.
He weighs about 29lbs depending on if he's eaten dinner or not the day before.
He is in size 2T for shirts and shorts, the first of my kids to actually be in the same size shirt and shorts. Usually they are 2T shirts and 12mo shorts.
He has huge feet and wears a size 8 shoe.
For comparison, Jaxton at almost 4 wears a 9.

He loves to be outside.
He loves toast but with butter only.
He hates kids his own age but loves adults and older kids. In fact I think he thinks he's older then he is. 

 He is obsessed with yelling "bye" to everyone when we are leaving somewhere. The best is when we are walking out of Sacrament Meeting at church and he is just saying bye and waving to everyone. He's gonna get called as door greeter soon I'm sure.
Loves snacks like veggie sticks, chips, muffins, yogurt (which he opens on his own and gets out a spoon to eat).
Talks allllllllllllll the time. And well too! Yay! 1 out of 3! He is using 2-3 word sentences and knows hundreds of words.
He can count to 15, sing his abc's (not clearly), twinkle twinkle, no more monkeys, pop goes the weasel, pretty much a ton of songs. The other day he sang Jesus Said Love Everyone and I didn't even know he knew that one.
Despite being brilliant he can not for the life of him master animal sounds. Every animal you ask him about he will say it say's "Moo". 

He had a trip to the dentist last month and is great. He is missing a tooth, the one on the left of his front teeth, but you can't tell. They tell me he'll need braces so that extra space will probably help when he gets older.
We use to think Jaxton would be our first to break a bone but now we think it will be Lucas. He has no fear and loves to jump on/off things. 

We had a family dinner for him the Sunday after his birthday and he got some Mickey Mouse ears which he loves. He has no interest in watching Mickey Mouse, but his diapers have Mickey Mouse on them and so he recognizes Mickey and wants all things Mickey. Thanks Disney. 

 He really is quite sweet.
Everytime I buckle him up in the car he tells me thank you.
Every time someone sneezes he says "achoo bless you".
He is always happy to see everyone in the morning and has recently gotten out of the habit of screaming at the top of his lungs when he wants out of his crib (yes, he is still in a crib and will stay in one for as long as he wants). Now when he wakes up he just calls out for mommy or daddy and then when we go in his room he says "no screaming". See. Brilliant. 

He adores everyone in the house, I don't think he has a favorite. Whoever is closest is whoever he loves most at that moment. 

Here's to a year of attiTWOde and tantrums.