two years...

robert charles, you are two years old..

two years old!

i know, i know.. i say it every month.. but i just can't believe you are two! you are so precious and are growing and changing so much every day. 

weight: 25 pounds, 15.5 oz (26%)

height: 35 1/4 inches (88%)

our tall, lean boy! these measurements were taken a month ago, so i am sure he has grown even more since then!

diapers: size 4

shoes: size 7 or 8, depending on shoe

clothes: 18-24 months and some 2T

teeth: 18! you are the proud new owner of the bottom 2 year old molars :-)

some cute things about you at two:

you are almost always smiling

when you are not smiling, you can throw some pretty impressive tantrums that involve throwing yourself on the ground and refusing to get up :-)

you are the pickiest little eater.. your favorite foods are chicken nuggets, mac &cheese, carrots, pears, peanut butter sandwiches, pizza and french fries.

you, all the sudden, have a biggest sweet tooth. you love the earth's best "oreos".. but just the cream. you also will never refuse vanilla ice cream :-)

you give the best hugs and kisses.

you love tents.

you love playing with your trains. dunbar and hoot&toot from chuggington go almost everywhere with you.

you love to play ball.

you love to be chased.. and will complain if we get too close to catching you :-)

you turn any slanted surface into a "slide"

you go to the park almost everyday

you are saying more and more words. you say "ya",  "no", "ball", "car", "all done", "blow on it" (when your food is hot), "oh dear" (just like mr. smee on jake!),  "croc", "light", "on", "off", "i got it".

we recently had your hearing tested because your speech is a tad behind and it was perfect. 

you understand everything we say. we have to spell out a lot of words these days!

you can act out your books.. i need to videotape it. you will finish the sentences of the books with sounds and actions as we read them. it is so darling. melts our hearts.

you love helicopters and point them out in the sky.

you love to dance and sing.



you love to help put your lotion on after bath and will even pretend to put on deodorant.

you can open all the doors in our house now.



you love to paint outside.

you are back in music class and super into it. you are dancing and following directions much more this semester.

you still take one nap a day and sleep anywhere between 10 and 12 hours at night. you are getting pretty creative in avoiding bedtime :-)

oh, robert, i am sure there are a million other precious things that you are doing! i could never name all the things you do each day to make us smile. we love you so much! you have made your daddy and i the happiest parents on earth. we thank God for you everyday and know what a blessing and privilege you are. i hope we make you feel that way every day!

here are some official 2 year pictures :-)

(you were not all about sitting in your chair!)

and a look back..

you right after birth..

you at a year..

love you sweet boy! 

aaaargh... a pirate party!

a week ago, we celebrated our sweet 2 year old pirate style!!

robert loves jake and the neverland pirates, so we thought it would be so fun to go with that theme..

here are the invites! i ordered them off etsy and love how they turned out.

we stayed pretty basic for the decorations this year. we hosted it at a park.. so it was really easy to put together and everyone had fun!

we got pizza for lunch and cupcakes and cookies for dessert this year. i ordered the cupcake toppers off etsy as well. they were so cute!

the party favor bags were so fun! i got the kids hooks, eye patches, pirate hats, bubbles, swedish fish and chocolate gold coins :-) i ordered the bags off diapers.com. love them!

the balloons were a huge hit! i was running late, so my sweet friend, christy grabbed some on the way.. i swear they were the biggest hit of the party!

the kids were so cute.. it is so much fun to watch them grow. last year, none of them were really walking, so they just all kind of sat and played. this year was a whole new ball game! they were off and running.. loved the swings and slides! i, of course, didn't get pictures of all my sweet friends and their kids! we had about 8 kids there.. it was so fun!

these sweet girls and i have been together from the start of motherhood! we all did prenatal yoga together and our kids are within 2 weeks of eachother. jacquie and nicole are the best!!

when it came to singing happy birthday.. robert just sort of looked at us like we were crazy. it didn't help that i totally forgot matches so we couldn't light a candle :-( robert loved the cookies though!

robert was having way too much fun to pose for pictures! so this is as close as we got :-)

thank you so much to everyone who came to celebrate with us! we love you guys so much and look forward to many birthday parties to come!

xxoo

olympics!!

we went to the london olympics!! yes, people, i know.. i am back from the trip now and can hardly believe it myself! 

rob has been planning this trip for us for the last 2 years. this has been a dream of his for the longest time. once the announcement was made that the 2012 summer games would be held in london, rob planned on us going! we absolutely love london, so we knew we needed to experience this there!

how did we get tickets? well, first rob entered us into the lottery. everyone one in the world who wants tickets enters this same lottery.. so it is no surprise that we did not get any tickets! we were so bummed though and started looking into other options. we ended up using this agency called cosport that sells packages of tickets and hotel stays. it worked out great!

the whole way to london, rob just kept saying, "i can't believe we are actually doing this!" it was so awesome to see my sweet husband so so happy!

first up.. track and field in the olympic stadium! i cannot even begin to describe to you all how surreal it was to walk into olympic park for the first time. to see live what we had been watching on tv and to know we were about to witness gold medals.. oh it was just unreal!

outside of the stadium, there was this structure called the orbit. i thought it looked like the olympic torch! anyway, you could climb up to the top and get a great view of london and into the stadium itself!

the first night, we went to see the women's 100 meter final. the way it works is you get tickets for the night.. starting between 7-8pm. you see several events going on all at the same time. so, on this night, we saw the conclusion of the heptathalon, the men's 10,000 meter final, men's long jump final, women's discus final, and the women's 100 meter final. we also got to see some other events int he semifinal phase.

we had some great seats!

jessica ennis from great britain won the heptathalon. you just can't help to be so happy for her and cheer great britain on while you are there. the stadium was going crazy! just gave you chills..

kelly-ann fraser won the 100 meter final.. go jamaica!!

once the events are over for the night, everyone leaves the stadium at once (all 80,000 of us) and all the other events around the park are also letting out (like swimming, diving, water polo, etc).. i don't think i would be exaggerating saying that 200,000 + people are exiting at one. it was unreal! it took us 1.5 hours just to get on a train home.. but it was so worth it, obviously!

the next night, rob and his sister, went to track and field again at the olympic stadium. they got to see bolt be named the fastest man in the world. so cool! we are big bolt fans around here.. and he never disappoints!

again, great seats!

yay bolt!

the next day, we hung out with the bel family. they met us in london and it was just so much fun spending the day with them!

picadilly circus..

double decker bus..

buckingham palace..

sweet husband and i about to walk through the arch that leads to trafalgar square..

trafalgar even got festive for the olympics!

sweet elliot..

the precious bel family..

big ben! it's our fav!

elliot and uncle rob walking to the riverboat on the thames..

once we boarded the boat, it took us from big ben to tower bridge and back. it is great way to see a lot of london without all the walking!

the london eye..

the tower bridge.. so awesome!

the next day, rob and i spent the entire day at olympic park.. we started the day with track and field and ended it with diving.

shalani and elliot came with us to the morning events. we got to see the men's 200m semi final. that meant seeing bolt again! he seriously looks like he is jogging, guys. it is so effortless on his part!

after the morning events, rob and i walked around the olympic park and checked it all out. we also went to the BMW pavilion to check out the olympic torch and some concept cars.

this BMW bike carried the olympic torch..

the torch and i.. 

i cannot even explain how many people were in the park at one time! i don't think i have ever or will ever see anything like it again!

our last event to go to was diving. it was so awesome to see. we didn't get too many pictures, but we enjoyed it so much!

we were so sad to say goodbye to london and the olympics.. we had so much fun. it was so nice to spend that time together and experience such a historic occasion together.

the only thing that made leaving london easier was coming home to our sweet robert! we missed him a lot and just couldn't wait to get him in our arms. a huge thank you to rob's parents for watching our little love. we could never thank them enough for taking such great care of robert!