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December 07, 2005
T W O
Two happens to be Gus' favorite number right now.
You give him one cracker, he says, "I want TWO crackers."
If he sees anything more than one car, ranging from two to 50, he says, "TWO cars!"
Seems fitting that the boy is TWO years old.
How is this possible, that we have a singing, mimicking, funny, highly-entertaining, sometimes precocious, two-year old?
Gus woke up to us singing Happy Birthday to him. We brought him down to the now (practically) FINISHED basement (yippee, John!) to show him his birthday surprise:
Two fish. His very own. It's Gus' job to feed them in the morning and at night. He is a boy now obsessed.
We then moved on to breakfast. Birthday cake. Well, birthday cupcakes. Ok, they were carrot cake...and as you can see by Gus' initial reaction, he was kind of taken aback. That is a look saying, "You call THIS birthday cake??" It was only the first round of the day, no worries. We were trying to get Gus good and sugared for daycare.
Gus has been struggling with a bad cough, so he stayed home today, and John worked from home. At least he got out and about on his birthday.
Due to the cough, Gus woke up awfully early this morning. We snuggled on the couch together, until suddenly he popped up and said, "Pee pee! Poo poo! Come on!"
I was dumbfounded. There was NO way he was suddenly entering his second year WANTING to use the toilet?
I followed him into the bathroom. Since he's moving much faster than me these days, he was standing there, by the toilet. He patted the toilet seat and said, "Come on, Mama!"
Oh.
You're right, I guess I should go.
Posted by janna at December 7, 2005 07:33 PM
Comments
I am impressed with your parenting skills here you two! I love the birthday present of gold fish. they appear to be attractive, yet of the normal garden viarety that are easily replaced, I mean easily found. Happy Happy Birthday, Big Brother Gus! We love you!
Posted by: Aunt Deb at December 8, 2005 11:59 AM