Two Years and Counting

I can not believe that Gabriel will be turning TWO this Sunday! It seems just like yesterday that we were bringing him home for the first time. Things have really changed since this time last year. He is talking not in words anymore, but in complete sentences. He is not just walking, but running ALL over the place, all the time! He is riding first his big wheel in April, his John Deere motorized tractor in Jule, then a tricycle in November, and now a REAL bike, complete with training wheels! He has opinions about EVERYTHING, what he wants to eat, drink, do, and wear! Here are some of the things that I love the most about him:

* His feet and hands-I think they are just the cutest things on earth (except for his little brown butt cheeks!)

* How snuggly he is in the mornings, he will sometimes say "Lay down with me mommy" and this melts my heart!

* How much he loves his family and wants to have everyone that is special to him together ALL the time

* His vocabulary-honestly he amazes me at times

*His speech and language errors (that I don't want to correct right now, even though I am a speech language pathologist by trade) For example "gaboons" = "balloons", "peas" = "please", "Miss No" = "Miss Snow", etc. And I love when he says "I Are..." instead of "I am".

* The way that he loves books! He squeals with delight when he gets new books and loves to read, all the time!

*The fact that he loves to go to church and is now going to the front during the children's time

*The way he is singing something, ALL the time! The kid loves music and I know that makes his daddy happy too.

* I love that he is not into TV at all, he could care less about it.

* His imagination and creativity (right now he is always pretending to saw with a toy and says he is building a house--just like his Papaw and Unkie Zach)!!!

Basically I love everything about this boy!!!!!!!!!!