Day one of life with a two year old! Not that it seems any different to him, but to me it's huge! I find myself looking at him differently, treating him a little differently...all good of course. I'm not making him scoop poop and wash the car or anything, but I am giving him little responsibilities around the house that he has fun with. Like tonight he helped me give Averi a bath. Usually I give her a bath after he is in bed because I try to keep her up a little later, but tonight he wanted to help. Not to mention he played outside pretty much all day! I LOVE having a nice flat fenced back yard. In all the houses that Derrick and I have lived in, this was my number one criteria and we finally got it! I love this yard so, so much. It was nice again today so for most of the afternoon I just left the back door open so he could come in whenever he wanted to. It is all windows, so I can see him with it closed so I felt perfectly comfortable letting him play. Averi and I joined him for a little while, but it was before noon and she got chilly fast.
I got a little surprise to day while both kids were napping. I was watching my netflix (finally! All About Steve with Sandra Bullock, she is hilarious, but I probably won't buy it...4 stars) anyway, watching my movie and the doorbell rang. I was pretty sure my days of delivery trucks parked outside are pretty much over (for now) so I had no clue who it was. It was our neighbors from across the street! They were all dressed up and had a birthday present for Cael! Jenny had misplaced the invitation and couldn't remember what day Cael's party was. It was my fault really, with a two year old as my oldest...I didn't even think about school for the bigger kids. Anyway we both apologized, and after Cael woke up from his nap, I gave them a call to come play. Joel and Arianna are Cael's new buds! He loved playing outside with them. It was nice to see older kids in an environment that was all about Cael, and no one was trampling him or trying to get him to play something else and leave them alone.
This picture is awesome to me because Cael took it! Both the kids wanted to take a few pictures of Jo with my camera and I let them...but Cael wanted to take one too. If you're going to play with big kids, you should get to do what they do right? So I held it for him and showed him which button to push. Not bad if you ask me! I see quite a few afternoon's with them over here in the near future! They loved him!
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