Tomas is 2!

Well this post is only about 6 weeks late, but better late than never! Tomas turned 2. I cannot believe it. He is growing so fast! He is such a good little kiddo, most of the time.

Things that he is up to.

He runs, jumps, climbs on just about anything. He zips up and down the steps like a pro, but still likes to ask for your hand (except for the time I found him with his cousin on the 3rd floor of the house). He is loving the balance bike he got for his birthday.

He is quite a talker and has become a parrot. He repeats EVERYTHING he hears, he is such a little sponge. He will repeat lines he hears in a song, he will repeat phrases he overhears from someone talking near by, he repeats anything Kevin and I say to each other within earshot of Tomas. And he is starting to create his own stories. My favorite one is when we were on vacation recently, he saw a dog when he was riding in an elevator with Kevin. That night as I was putting Tomas down, he told me "daddy touch doggy wet nose, yuck, elevator". What? I asked Kevin and there was a dog, but they didn't touch the dog. How does this boy know dog's noses are wet? Cutie. He has repeated this story over and over again, in fact tonight when he told me about some friends pants who got wet today, he then proceeded to tell me about the wet dog nose that daddy touched. So he speaks in short phrases or in sentences, he speaks spanglish, mixing the 2 in any given sentence. He can count to 10, sometimes it comes out "2,3,5,6" and other times he makes it 1-10 correctly. He is starting to sing A,B,Cs.

He loves art projects, loves to paint, loves to draw, loves his trains. He will push his trains around for long periods of time. Tio Tito gave him a train that has blocks which he happily tells people that Tio Tito gave him this train. He will make block towers to knock down.

He is not afraid of pink - the beauty of being sandwiched between 2 sisters. In fact, he insists on wearing all of Cata's hair bows, he happily wears Cata's old pink hat, her pink boots, her pink gloves (maybe we have too much pink?). When one of us says "should we read Angelina Ballerina?" He will squeal "yes! Angelina!". Or if we pull out Fancy Nancy, Tomas will squeal "Fancy Nancy"!

But then he will use the dolls to hammer stuff, jump on Cata's dolls, throw things when he thinks we aren't looking...He loves Tomas the Train stories, Dr Seuss, Elmo. He is also a master of technology. He drives the ipad like it's a board book - he flips through apps, selects them, plays them, turns them off. He takes my iphone, can turn it on, find the photos, flip through photos. Just this weekend he saw the cable for my iphone, plugged the correct end into my phone and the other end into the USB slot of my laptop. I don't know where he learns this stuff!

He also decided to become a photographer this weekend as he learned how to turn on our camera, zoom in/out, take a photo. Amazing what kids these days do.

Tomas is overall a really well behaved kiddo. He LOVES his 2 sisters. He looks out for Catalina and he just loves on Francisca. He wakes up in the morning and says "baby, baby?". Once he knows where she is, he then says "Cata, Cata". Once he gets out of his bed, he runs right to Cata's room to say good morning to her. If she is sitting in a chair, he comes up next to her and either lays his head on her lap or takes her hand and says "hi Catita". If we are out walking, he takes her hand to walk with her.

(not the best photo but cute moment)

His love of Franci is pretty cute too. He is getting much better at laying next to her rather than on her, but he still has his moments where he just can't resist laying on her.

What else about this little kiddo. He is quite the household helper. He loves to throw trash away when asked, will clean up his toys (when asked), he goes to bed easily, eats well, naps well...He loves being dad's little helper - unpacking a box, setting up a photo shoot, carrying stuff in from the car.

Testing out the car (It was off!)

The closest thing to a dog he'll ever have

Helping to shovel

Tired from shoveling!

Trying on Tio Tito's hat!

working hard with Tata

Since the only picture of Cata wasn't so cute, here's one to make up for it!