Colin has grown leaps and bounds since his first birthday. He went from exclusively rolling at 12 months to taking his first independent steps at 20 months, to walking independently at 24 months-- it took him some time to be convinced that it was worth walking all the time! He tore up shoes so badly with his crawling!
At two years Colin is now 33 3/4 inches tall and something like 25 or 26 lbs. He talks all the time-- probably about 1/2- 3/4 of what he says actually makes sense to us--he also loves to repeat what we say. I think he is talking more than his brother did at this age! He still loves to eat, especially sweets! His eating habits almost seem to be opposite of his brother, at least when it comes to veggies and potatoes. Colin loves french fries, but won't touch any veggies!!! I hide pureed baby food in yogurt to make sure he gets at least a little each day. Philip also hides steamed spinach in omelets for the kids under the pretense that they are "green eggs." We eat "green eggs and ham (bacon)" almost every Saturday these days. Right around two years Colin really took off with his walking! He is now fully mobile. He has an independent side more so than his brother did at this age; one of his favorite lines is, "I do it." He also says, "I did it." He loves watching Elmo, Winnie the Pooh--Tigger in particular, airplanes, and Anpanman. He can count to five when prompted--although he usually starts with two (usually I say one and he'll say the next numbers, it's hard to actually get him to say one). Anything sweet seems to be his favorite food, although he loves to pick out tofu out of things to eat and has eaten up to eight spinach and mozarella ravioli (I usually eat about five)! He is also good at imitating us, like in the previous post where he is "helping" Philip fix the humidifier. He is very cute and sweet and will blow kisses when prompted. Philip thinks it's time to get his hair cut due to his cute curls!
On his actual birthday we went to the grocery store and bought him some cookies as a treat. They were giving out Mickey Mouse balloons!
He's having fun!
