Busy Bee and Birthday Boy

Chasing around that little guy has kept Bruce and I quite busy these days! Tavin is a full fledged talker/repeater... you better not slip up or his new favorite word will be a naughty one! Speaking of favorite words, his current is marionette. Cute :)

He has just started to peek out of his super shy phase and play more with other kids, or at least not cry when they come up to him. At church he has just started going to the 2 year old building and I think that helps a lot because they all get to play on the playground together and he loves him some slides and steering wheels!

I like to keep Tavin's hair long... I like to think it looks surfer-ish, but i probably like it that way so much because it reminds me of his baby hair :) We are going to go to see our friend Kyle at Boogie's House of Fades for a haircut today... He's gonna come out of there looking like a little stud :)

This is my absolute favorite age. I just love seeing his innocence and curiosity and genuine love. If I could freeze time right now, I just might!

And now I'll send you off with some videos from his 2nd birthday :)

Words I can say...

Now that Tavin can technically talk, I better stop talking for him! From now on I will do my best to write this blog in my own words :)

When Tavin was 18 months I decided to write down all the things he could say before there were too many to count. I wrote this list over the portion of an entire day we spent together and here's what I came up with:

**Words**
dada
mama
down
up
bite
cookie
grape
please
diaper
Nana
Grandpa
Bruce
Leah
bye bye
Elmo
this
that
pee pee
poop
eyes
no
nose
yellow
ball
apple
banana
Jersey
Pearl
hi
hello
shower
bath
orange
duck
wow
hot
danger
Olivia
Ice
baby
shoe
on
guacamole
more
please
two
book
see
plum
bubbles

**Sounds**
tick tock
shhhhh
hummmm
ohhhhh
ummmm

**Animal noises**
horse
frog
bear
monkey
elephant
duck
pig
cow
sheep

**Phrases**
What is that?
Wanna bite
Thank you
Oh no
Want down
brush teeth
Yo Gaba Gaba
Brown bear, brown bear
night night
where's (name)?
all done!

By the way, now that he's inching up on 22 months, he is like a recorder... everything we say, he mimicks. He picks up at least a few words a day and stores them in the think tank... even the bad ones ;)Perhaps the cutest though is he is learning to pray. He folds his little hands together and when we're done (or sometimes in the middle) he says A-MEN! The other night when I was putting him to bed he just kept saying it even as I closed the door... what a little cutie pants.

The 4th of July!

The 4th of July was SO MUCH FUN! We took a little trip with the Dermers to their house in Prescott. Here's me and Dad in the driveway...



The house was so darn big and we even got to watch The Wonder Pets in a big movie theatre! We also went to Whisky Row where I was very weary of the cotton candy and couldn't understand why everyone was eating fluff so I opted for a granola bar. On our way home, we went to a cool carnival where I ran around with mom and dad while the bigger kids when on rides... it was fun to watch though! Finally, we made it back to Phoenix to see the fireworks at Arrowhead Mall with Nana, Papa and the Warners. Yippie!

PooGrin pics!

Me and mom and her fellow PooGrinners all got together at Tempe Town Lake to take some FUN pics for the website. Oh mom... she just cant get enough pictures of me.

My first swim class

Today was my first swim class ever! My class is called the Little Snappers and it was lots of fun. I had to wear a special diaper under my swimsuit that looked like a cool speedo so that was neat too. I also learned how to go under water, shimmy along the side (all by myself!) and climb out of the pool (also all by myself!)... Anyway, here are some pics dad took:

18 month pics

Fun with bubbles!

Some new tricks... smiling, dancing & jumping

Fun at the Good Guys Car Show!!

I had a MAN day (except my mom was there) at the Good Guys Car Show at Westworld with Dad, Grandpa and Uncle Chase. There was so much to see and touch and eat!

A trip to the Children's Museum

Last Friday, me and Chloe and our families went to the Children's Museum downtown! It was so fun and I cant wait to go back :)

Sunrise 2010

Sunrise was so much cooler this year... last year I was kind of a blob. At first I didn't want the snow to touch me and I wasn't sure how to walk in my snow boots, but I ended up having fun anyway. I also HATED it when people went sledding... it really scared me, but I did like to play with the sleds on my own and I had so much fun with my new girlfriend, Avery :)