Adam at 2 years old

Here are a few pictures of Adam from the last year. The 2nd year of a child's life sees so many changes; developmentally, emotionally and socially. Adam has grown so much this year.

Adam playing peek-a-boo in a tunnel at an indoor play park during our Melanchuk family vacation in June 2009.

Adam feels the Canadian love on Canada Day 2009.

Adam moved from a rear facing car seat to a forward facing car seat in the fall.

Adam as Tigger for Halloween 2009.

Adam playing in the Christmas tree lights, November 2009.

Adam sporting a Christmas gift from Gran-Gran; Labrador flag hat and sweater

Adam eating a cupcake at Uriah's arena birthday - January 2010

Adam enjoys some trains at the Family Day festivities -February 2010

Adam takes Ryan for a spin on the merry-go-round at Wysuk Park- April 2010

Adam becomes a big brother- March 2010

At 2, Adam can now run, jump, and talk almost as well as his older brother. He is now an older brother himself, and it is very easy to forget that he is only 2 and a toddler, not 4 and a pre-schooler like Ryan. Adam is almost as tall as Ryan and weighs almost the same also. Adam had his first haircut in the fall, but we didn't cut his hair very much, just trimmed a couple of stray hairsat the back and around his face and ears.

In addition to moving to a forward facing car seat, Adam now sleeps in a big boy bed in the room he shares with Ryan. He is begining to show signs of possibly wanting to potty train and I am hoping to tackle that this summer. Adam has most of his teeth now and brushes them everynight with a Thomas the train toothbrush just like Ryan.

Here are some pictures from Adam's 2nd birthday festivities. My mom was able to be here with us- which was very nice.

One of our guests- Alexis

Another guest- Janie

And another guest- this time Maddison

A whole brood of guests- (clockwise from top)- Ethan, Xander, Ryan, Ann, Janie in her mom's arms, David and Abi.

Adam opening his present from the Hayter kids.

Adam enjoys his birthday cupcake at his party

Adam's family party cake.

Adam and Ryan play with some of the toys Adam recieved for his birthday

Ryan and Daddy pose with the birthday boy

Ryan and Gran-Gran pose with the birthday boy at Clarks for a birthday dinner

Adam and Ryan enjoy the Little Tykes Cozy Coupe we bought (2nd hand) for Adam for his birthday while we wait for his bike to arrive.

It was a great celebration for a wonderful little boy full of energy and love.

Ryan's ever growing vocabulary

One of the girls at Brad's work remarked today "Oh, he's talking!" and at first I kind of looked at her like she was dumb or something because Ryan has been a chatterbox for sometime. But then it dawned on me, that it may seem that way to me because I spend pretty much all day every day with him. Upon further reflection, Ryan is not as "chatty" when we go to Brad's work either. So, the girl is forgiven. It was I who was dumb.

But that made me think about Ryan's ever growing vocabulary. His very first word at all was "Dada" (although I don't think he knew what it meant) at about 6 months. (Told you he was a chatterbox!) Now he says:
dada,
mama (although not as much),
ba-boo (his word for TV/cartoons),
cat,
car,
pooh (for winnie the pooh, and he also uses it for mickey, tigger and piglet too although we are trying to teach him tigger and piglet and he has said them each a couple of times),
cup,
shoes,
hat,
coat,
play,
all done,
all gone,
sit,
I,
chair,
no (although he prefers to just shake his head violently for no),
mine,
banan (for banana),
mum (when he wants food or likes his food...maybe he means mmmm or yum?),
dog,
shish (for fish).

He puts words together like mama car, I sit, I chair, dada all gone, ect. He also has a couple of things he says that we just have no idea, we haven't decoded yet. One is the name we are considering for baby boy #2. I think it is his word for up (or pick me up). That seems to be how he uses it. But we have started using it for the baby and we often ask him where "up" is or to hug "up". (Yes, we are still keeping the name to ourselves for now) Ryan likes to hug my belly, lift up my shirt, and sometimes he will playfully hit it as well. And just in the last couple of days he has been saying something that kind of sounds like pain or play but it isn't play. He says it when he wants something or doesn't want something you gave him. He was saying it tonight as he pushed his supper (usually a favorite- alphaghetti) away. But since he had fallen asleep in the car on the way back from bringing supper to Brad, I put him down (at 630 at night no less...yes I am going to pay for that I am sure!) and he is fast asleep. So maybe it is some sort of tired cue.

Ryan also signs. He signs "eat", "more" (which he uses as more, again and please), and "all done" which he also uses for all gone. He waves bye bye (to Brad and Mason the most) and he will blow kisses "night night" to me or Brad when he is going down for a nap or to sleep. (Although he doesn't have the "blowing" part down, but it is still really cute!) He understand a lot of what we say to him and listens well, especially if it is something he wants to do. I need to get some of this on video because it really is just so cute (even if I am a touch biased!).