adventures with mayer and grayson: grayson is deux

sometimes he comes across french. ask him how old he is and sometimes you get "two!" and sometimes you get "deux!". my silly, sweet, funny, determined little man turned the big 2 on sunday. we celebrated with a laid back day of grayson, at home with just the 4 of us. he woke up to a decorated house...courtesy of troy. he opened all presents before 8am but that's just fine. he and mayer spent all day playing with all the new toys. after dinner, we had cake. my attempt at a firetruck cake can be seen below. it ended up looking like an ole timey firetruck but i'm okay with that and grayson was happy. there are a couple videos we took and are mostly for the grandparents.he also had his 2 year well baby appointment yesterday. all is well there. he's 27 pounds and 33 inches of love....and for the grandparents that's 70% for weight and 24% for height and his head is 90%....which all equates to a short, fat man with a big head. he's not a big talker yet and has a referral for an evaluation but if you remember back to mayer at 2 he wasn't talking yet either and then one day he exploded and i don't think he's stopped talking since. we aren't very concerned but we'll see what they have to say. grayson seems to have new words everyday and manages to get his point across one way or the other. he watched a video of his cousin lena a few weeks ago and said "baby" and "lena" for the first time all on his own. grayson's favorite person is still mayer and they play very well together - most of the time. he is such a little boy - it's all things that go around here - trucks, cars, planes, trains. he also holds his own when light sabers make an appearance and he and mayer have a battle. grayson is also getting smarter or sneakier...whatever you want to call it. when mayer has something he doesn't want grayson to get a hold of (aka destroy), he'll put it up on a shelf. well, grayson has figured out if he takes the step stool out of the bathroom and put it where he needs it, he can reach just about anything. i knew a while ago grayson was going to be the one to keep me on my toes...so the adventure continues.

here are some pictures and videos from grayson's birthday....the last 2 are almost identical but after the first one i rememeberd more words he says and did another one...those are mostly for the family but feel free to be entertained.