Pearce at 2 years old

Lately there have been so many funny things that Pearce has done or said.  I swear, every day, he says or does something new.  Here are a few things that I want to remember:

*Whenever I pick up Pearce from school, I always ask if he had fun and what did he do.  Several weeks ago, when I picked him up and asked him about school, he said "Mommy, I fall down. I got boo-boo.  Laura hug you."  First of all it was so funny, that he was able to tell me all of this.  Second of all, he would tell me this story over and over....like several times a day for about a week!  But what I loved is that whenever he got to the part about how he had a boo-boo, he would smile and laugh a little because I never say "boo-boo"  I always say "ouchie."  So, the next week at school, I told his teachers this and one of his teachers, Miss Laura, said he had fallen in Movement Class and was crying and she picked him up and asked if he got a boo-boo and then loved on him :)

*I think Halloween is going to be his favorite holiday because he still talks about "pooky".  He saw a spider web in the garage and said "Oh, pider, that's pooky!"  He says "pooky" in a lower voice :)

*Last week, I picked Pearce up and was holding him and trying to hurry up and get out of the house.  He said "Oh no Mommy, I slippin'!"  Haha....I would never drop you Pearce :)

*I took Pearce to McDonald's one morning and ordered us the Big Breakfast Platter to split.  When I gave him his plate with scrambled eggs, pancakes, biscuit, and sausage, Pearce said "Oh, Papa like that!  Papa LOVES sausage.  I don't like sausage, sausage picey!"

*Pearce loves Frosted Mini Wheats cereal.  I break them in half and he will usually eat a good size bowl of them.  He picks one up, puts it on his spoon, and then eats it.  He asked me what the white frosting was and I said it was sugar.  He said "Oh sugar, I like sugar, sugar loves you."

*The other day, Pearce said "Thank you ma'am!"

*Sometimes I'll be in the the laundry room for a few minutes or another room while Pearce is playing in the living room and then I'll hear him say "Air Mommy doe?"  I love that :)

*He has also been using the word "need" a lot... "I need BB"  "I need water"  "I need nilk"

*When we were at Target this morning, Pearce was humming (as he was licking the dish soap bottle) and he said "Mommy in singin' like Ka-Hannah."  Katherine Hannah is a little girl in his play group who loves to sing :)

*I needed to fix dinner the other night, so I put on a new movie called Brother Bear.  It's a Disney movie about a bear and I thought it would entertain him for a few minutes while I got his dinner ready.  Well, he loved this movie!  He stopped watching just long enough to eat his dinner and then he said he wanted to watch the bear.  He went and sat in his chair and said "Mommy sit riiiiight here." and pointed next to his chair.  We watched the rest of the movie together and at the very end, the credits started going but I was listening to the song that was going along with the credits...and then I heard a little whimper and looked over to see Pearce's mouth turned down, little lip quivering and tears running down his face.  As soon as I picked him up, he laid his head on my shoulder and started really crying.  I asked him if he was sad the movie was over and he said yes and then he said "Mommy rock you."  Poor little guy!

*Sometimes Pearce will say "Ewwww, that's yucky!"  Sometimes he is right...like with a bug or something.  Other times it's a pair of shoes, or dinner I've cooked :)

*I guess he's heard me tell people that he likes to suck on his BB's because now whenever I rock him for his nap or at bedtime he says "I suck on BB" and then sucks on BB :)

*I always know when Pearce needs to go poo poo....he will walk away and if I look at him he will say "No Mommy, bye bye" and wave at me to look away.  One time we were reading some books and he had to go and he walked to the other side of the living room and said "Mommy read book."

*He will also tell me "I need new diaper."  Potty training may start this summer!

*And what I love most is that he still loves for me to rock him during nap time or bedtime.  He snuggles up to me and sucks on BB and just gets so relaxed.  Sometimes he's not quite ready for me to put him to bed, so he will say "No Mommy, rock you."  Lately, he's been rubbing my neck while I sing to him, I guess to feel the vibration :)  We've also begun a new nap/bedtime ritual.  First, he always wants to give Sissy and Otis a kiss, so I put Pearce in bed and then go get the dogs and lift each up for him to give them a kiss between the slats of his bed.  Then he says "Tuck you in."  To do this, I tuck each BB under each arm, then get his other blanket (one that Mama made him when he was a baby) and I lay it over him and tuck it under his feet and under both sides of his body.  Sometimes when I walk out I hear "Uh oh, uh oh!"  And I go back in to see the blanket has come out from under his feet, so I tuck his feet in again .  I love our little bedtime ritual :)