Dude is 23 Months!!!

Dearest Dude,
You are now 23 months old.  In one short month, you will have been on this earth for two years!  It's crazy how much you've changed from a newborn to a toddler.  Although some days you seem more like a kindergartner instead of a toddler.  See.

Here's what you're up to:

• You still have 16 teeth!  I'm gonna go on the record and say that I have a feeling Annie will cut her first teeth, the same time you cut your second molars.  It's just our luck:)
• When you smile a certain way, your dimples show!  Here's an example.

• You love to walk in our shoes. 

• You are obsessed with choo choo trains.  
• You also like to point out airplanes in the sky & find the moon.
• When you leave the room you say, "bye bye momma" and I say, "bye bye sweetness, I love you" and you reply with a "lul you"  And then I just melt into a puddle.
• We've been trying to do fun stuff with you before sister makes her arrival.  We visit friends, the mall, the park, and football games, just to name a few!

• You feel the need to stand up and pee pee in your bath water.  Grrrr.
• You still won't eat meat, but you will tear up fruit & veggie pouches.  They are our staples.
• Instead of eating 3 big meals, you eat a few small meals a day.  Actually, the only good meal that you eat is breakfast, sigh...
• You now wear a size 7 shoe.
• You LOVE piggy back rides.  
• You've started playing with your leggos.  Once we showed you how to build stuff, you will play for hours building trains...
• You are such a big boy at MMO.  You eat at the big boy table & take a nap on your nap mat!  

• I spy two sweet feet sticking out of your nap mat:)
• I also spy wub wub (your security blanket)
• Sometimes, I bust you in the refrigerator. 

• You like to stack things.  You especially like to stack things that you find in momma's pantry, such as crisco.

• I have a pumpkin in your's and sister's room and you love them.  You say "pump pump".
• Speaking of fall, you are going to have the BEST halloween costume.  
• Are you ready for it?  You're gonna be a red-headed Elvis.  I. could. die.
• You love to listen to Grammy's seashell.  By the way, you can now say Grammy instead of Mammy!  It's taken you awhile to say your G's properly.

• You make me smile every single day. 
• I am honored to be your mother.