I've been spending the last few days trying to figure how we should celebrate Connor's 2nd birthday. I'm finding it really hard! It's even harder to figure out what we should give to him too. He already has so many toys as it is. I was thinking about maybe new shoes and clothes and maybe a new dresser to replace the one I broke, but I doubt those are any fun for a kid to receive.

I also have to remember that he's 2 and he's probably not going to remember such details.

If we had a house, I'd want to throw a party at home, but unfortunately we live in a 2 bedroom apartment on the second and third floor. Kinda cramped.

The zoo is kinda far away, we took him to the aquarium last year, and it's too cold and rainy to do anything outdoors. Ack!

Moving on...

Connor's vocabulary has really blossomed in the last week. He's always been somewhat delayed in his speech, but it's really cool to hear him try. Here is a list of the words he can say now, or as many as I can remember:

1.Please ("plee")
2.More
3.Cat ("dat")
4.Meow ("mau")
5.Woof Woof
6.Bird ("boo")
7.Draw
8.1-2-3
9.Star ("darts")
10.Baby
11.Mommy
12.Daddy
13.Hi
14.Bye
15.Shoe
16.Socks ("schots")
17.Shirt (ummm, sometimes he says it right. hehe)
18.Snow
19.Truck ("traw")
20.Choo Choo
21.Banana ("nawni")
22.Food ("foo")
23.Juice ("joo")
24.Ball ("bawl")
25.Light ("lie")
26.Cheese
27.Night Night ("nigh nigh")
28.Blue ("boo)
29.Balloon ("boon")
30.Book (accompanied with the sign for book and sounds like "boo")
31.Teeth ("teech")
32.Bath ("bah")
33.Water("wawa")
34.All Done ("done")
35.Fly ("fry")
36.Bowl
37.Yes
38.Chair ("cho")
39.Eye
40.Potty
41.PeePee
42.PooPoo
43.Bus

What I think is sort of funny is that he uses the sign "more" for everything. He'll come up to me and give me a serious look and sign "more" and it's a game to figure out what he wants more of. Today however when I asked he replied with "cheese". Sometimes when I'm holding him if he wants down he'll sign "more" and then point down. We're going to have to differiniate more and please it seems.

We took Connor to the park today...

Choo Choo Bus from Becky Lee on Vimeo

and when we were done Connor got a hankering for some...


PIE!

We took Connor to his first ever movie at the movie theater yesterday.



It was a lot of fun. We weren't expecting too much, and had already decided that if he got antsy that we would just have to call it a day. He lasted the entire movie though! He loved watching the dogs, naming things he saw and mimicking the sounds he heard in the movie. He was generally quiet, and I really don't think the other people in the theater would have anything to complain about him being there.

We're looking forward to doing this again when another kiddy movie hits the theaters!