Noe - 2 years old and growing so much everyday!

We celebrated Noe's 2nd birthday on June 6th.  Just our typical, family birthday party.  He has really started to develop into quite the "Little Man".  In February he had a speech evaluation done and at the time was speaking only about seven words.  Rob and I said then that soon we'd probably be wishing he couldn't talk so much.  I think that is starting to come true (not really, I have enjoyed hearing him talk so much).  Right now his favorite words seem to be "Mine", "I do it!",  "I got it", and "don't touch".  He and Rob like to play the 'my mommy' game and compete for who can get to me first and try to hug me and not let the other one get me.  About a month ago he strung together his first two word sentence - it was "Help Me" and he said it about 100 times that night at his brother's T-ball game while he'd lay in the grass and ask for Alli or I to help him up.  Now "all gone" and "all done" and all of the independent statements above are part of his daily communication.  He also finally is able to call Junior's name - which he says as "Ju-Ju".  Before this he seemed to refer to both of his brothers as Alex.  


Noe also is now running almost everywhere he goes.  And when he does its so cute because he always has one arm tucked up and pumps it like crazy!  He loves to follow his brothers around the house and tries to do everything that they do - climb, jump, etc.  Last Sunday, on Father's Day, all three of the boys came marching through the house in a line - while in their underwear only.  It was more precious than any gift we could've given Rob.  Yesterday at the pool he went from "jumping" off the side into our arms to just leaping right from the side and plunging into the water.  This is great but now I have to keep my eyes on him constantly because he will jump right in!

With a cool present from my Aunt Dawn!

As much as I always wanted a baby Noe has filled this role in my life.  He is a cuddly, precious little guy at times and then can be a big bully and take right up for himself with two older brothers.  As a result he will most likely end up the most rotten (Rob tells me this all of the time).  But I sure am enjoying watching every moment of his development.