April 2022- Where has the time gone?

AJ, ALEXANDER JAMES, you are the smartest little boy I have ever met. I cannot believe in a couple weeks you are going to be 2! Well, since no one can believe with the vocabulary you have that you are 2, I can guess turning 3 is just par for the course. You are the busiest little guy who loves everyone and everything. Life with you is way more fun. Your long blonde hair, hazel green eyes, bruised legs, strong belly, little freckle by your eye, one a kind, BIG boy. With an absolutely hilarious sense of humor, descriptive sentences, problem solving skills, and continuos "Watch Me Watch Me!" Who wouldn't want to wath you? You are so creative and have a wonderful sense of spacial awareness. You continue to be an amazing singer and have mastered counting to 20 along with your ABC's. You love wathing cocomelon, and Spicable me 2, ( Despicable Me 2), and Cars! Along with going to Poicable moothie ( Tropical smoothie) Sometimes words are just too cute to correct. Kind of like, "Uppy" I love upppy! You are Daddy's litle boy, he is definitely your favorite, followed by Charli, Me, and Danica. It's okay what comes around goes around! You have an amazingbond with your sissies, you fit right in with whatever they are doing and playin...even tennis-- you grab your racket and hit the ball too. As soon as the weather warmps up I am sure you will be riding your bike around the block with them in your spiderman helmet. What an entourage I have! What great times we have to look forward to, these 2 years with you have an absolute joy and I am so thankful to have you in my life. You are a light in all of ours lives. I think it is incredible all you have accomplished in your short life and all that you are going to become one day. You have the biggest fans in your corner and I just love watching you learn and grow each day. We have started to get in to some Mommy and Daddy bad habits as you are back in our bed and fall asleep watching trains. You defintely kick me all night and when you wake up too early the first person you look for is Dad. If you can't find Dad that is a nightmare! Breakfast lunch dinner... You continue to eat everything on your plate. Like clockwork each day when you get home you ask for a cookie, I wonder who is teaching you that habit! At Beth's house you have a bunch of friends who you do find a way to get in trouble with, but you are all boy I wouldn't except less. You love firetrucks, and police cars, and ambulances. You dress up as first responders whenever you can and even as Dr. AJ. You give us shots, check our ears, and our hearts. When you play restuarant, you always ask, "what do you like?" What do you have?" I always love my menu choices, I think you are yet to turn down my selection. In the morning you are quite independent, once you know where your Dad is, and then you play with your cars, eat breakfast and watch TV, along with driving your sisters nuts. Then we take them to school and you say, "Mommy I miss Sissies." Then I get you to laugh we head home and clean up and get ready for the day. On our way to Beth's we listen to "Under the Sea" and ABC's in the car and we talk about directions and "the light is greeen, go cars go!" I love our morning sing alongs and conversations. You are easy to drop off which makes life so much easier. I love giving you are big hug big kiss and an I love you. I remember the couple days you would not get in your seat, you were spitting, you wre kicking my seat, you kept hitting the lock button, kicking the side of the car and the more mad I got the more you would laugh. These days were far and inbetween but they for sure left their mark. I hope your teenage years are easier!!! Miss Beth is having her baby so now you are playing with Miss Lynn (Dylan as you call her) and the boys (Nate and Ray). Last week you were the policeman, Ray was the fireman, and Nate the garbage man. I'd say that was a great day. Miss Lynn said you were so polite. I think so too, please and thank you and kindness seems to always excude from you, excpet sometimes when you are being funny or completely overtired. Then you become crazy boy, scratching, hitting, biting, spitting. Yes from 0-60 when you have no gas left in the tank! Bath before bed time is always fun and Mommy is better than Daddy! Finally at something! Mommy gives warm baths; Daddy's are cold!!! I love to blow dry your hair with your little curls at the end of your hair and get you in a matching outfit that you feel so good in. I love when you look in the mirror and smile. You have great hygiene and want a toothbrush in your mouth all the time. You even have a spiderman brush from Aunt Tam! Easter is this weekend and this will be the first time you will meet Funny bunny! Can't wait to take a picture and have fun at Aunt Ter's house and meet your baby cousin, Nora! What exciting times ahead for an ahead of the curve guy. The Pandemic is on its way out. Masks are no longer required and life is feeling more like normal. This summer should be an amazing time if the weather would please warm up. It is April and it snowed. Your 3rd birthday party is a few weeks away and we have new Aunts and cousins to celebrate with. Looking forward to a sense of normalcy filled with lots of family, friends, and love. I can't wait to take you back to see Mike's tow truck you get so excited when he calls to hear about the tow truck. Over spring break we did a staycation and stayed at a hotel. Let me tell you, you were an absolute fish in the water. You now lay on your back in your floatie and you put your toes altogether, all by yourself. It is so cute!!!! You also love hotels, but you really want to go "back to my condo!" I guess Florida really makes a mark on your too. Maybe we will plan a little trip this summer to go back to your condo. It feels so great to know that you are so excited for each new day, yesterday you told me you and Dad were going to Uno taco Dos Tequilas...maybe we will go today. It's always a great day to celebrate. You were just telling Uncle Eric it is almost your birthday party, YEAH, and you are going to be three. You can even do the 2 and three fingers for your age, you know your birthday date month and day... and Yes you are AJ ALEXANDER JAMES named for 3 people who may have never met you but I promise you love you and would be mesmorized by you like we all are. I see big things in your future Sipderman. Big things!!! Love you OMG! I ALMOST FORGOT! We are in the process of potty training ( well we did it for one day over the chaotic spring break) and you went potty o the toliet! We will make sure to master this as soon as the school year ends. one month and we are in full potty training mode- PAW PATROL ready for ACTIONS!