Oh Boy, oh boy!

Ok, Who told my kid he's a 2 year old now?!

He's crazy! He looks like a little man, and he's growing up way too fast!
 

He repeats everything I say and do now.
(including checking his stomach and butt in the mirror after getting dressed. a sure sign I'm popping out of all my clothes? hmm yeah.)

He's running around and jumping off the furniture.

He's signing songs about everything. "heyyy, daddy, daddy, poopoooo....byebye, LMNOPeeee, heyy, hohoooo..."

                                    hi.la.ri.ous.

He pretends he's reading books.

He wants hugs all the time.

He runs in circles around our living room yelling, "run run run run run!" but it sounds more like "unnununununnn!"

He tells on the dogs when they're doing something they shouldn't be doing. 

 

He wants me and Matt to watch everything he does, and if we don't, he'll continue the oh-so-annoying,"Moom!... mom... mom...mooom! Daddy.. Daddy! Mom! Dadddyy...daddyy..." Until we finally look.
 

Oh it's fun! 

He finally fits in 18 moth old clothing! Yay our little shrimpy boy is growing.

We put all his 12 month old clothing away.
It made me so maternal. I feel like he's 2, going on 15. 

Sometimes I'm so selfishly sad, I've only had him in my life for 6 months and he's already 2 years old.
 

Stop growing up so fast baby! :(

Yeah, yeah, go ahead, insert:   #pregnancyhormones #yikes


 

We had a small birthday party for him at our favorite park down the street.

The theme was,

            "Jake and the Neverland Pirates!"
 

 It's pretty much his favorite show ever.

 I let him watch it in the mornings while he eats breakfast. So I can ya know, get dressed, put on my make up and look half way decent for the day. 

 

He loves all the music and singing in the show!
And now he likes to yell, "no, Hook!" When ever Hook shows up on the screen.

In fact, ALL shows are now called "Ho-Hooo!"

Thanks Netflix.

 ...Anyway, the birthday party went great!!
 Brandon had a super fun time trying to hit (and kick) the piñata.
 

Since the kiddo has issues when he eats sugar, and I'm trying not to eat it either...

I attempted to make him a healthy Paleo fresh banana cake, with a fresh strawberry/pineapple filling and coconut cream icing.
 

It tasted great!!
 It looked like... Well I won't be showing you the final photo. 

Maybe I'll do a practice cake before his next b-day.
The icing was a mess.
 And it was almost 80 degrees at the park.. so you can imagine the melted disaster.

I wish I could show you all his other photos. This boy is sooo much fun. He has such a good, kind heart and is always ready for the camara with a smile to share!

He's seriously the cutest little boy in the world. 

Oh! 

On that note, Brandon's adoptions worker called the other day and we are signing our Adoption papers the beginning of Feb! (depending on when baby-girl makes her arrival). 

Then we'll just need to wait for a Court date and finally be finalized! 

                                  Yessss!
All of this could still take a few more months, but there is a light at the end of this adoption tunnel! 

 

In the meantime, we've set up the room, half little boy, half baby girl. 

She's due in a week and a half and I'm finally ready! 

(38 1/2 weeks today!)

 

So many teenie-tiny outfits! 

 

 

 

 

(Brandon's big boy bed. complete with pillows since he occasionally falls out).

            (Find the napper!)

 

(girl corner. I tried to stay away from too much pink. didn't really happen. oooh well!)

 

 

This tiny little house is about to get craaazaaay! 

And we're (not very patiently) waaaating!!!