Tate is 2!

Tate's 2nd Birthday
Tate's meeting Mommy on his "birth" day

Tate turned 2 on December 20. This big guy has changed our lives so much and is such a joy. He is very silly and has grown up so much in the last few days/weeks! He has gone from speaking very dutchy to using complete sentences. When he gets really excited he can tell a whole story without one clear word, but he does quite well with his words when he talks slowly. He learned 2 colors by looking at Christmas lights on the way home from "work" (daycare). Yellow (yewwow)and green (gween) are the ones he really knows well. Waving to Daddy and holding his hand

Tate enjoys doing whatever S.Jessen is doing and picks up on things quickly. He is already beginning to dress himself. He has memorized his favorite books that are by Mommy's favorite children's author Karen Katz. He likes to change his voice for every situation and is singing songs all day long. Among his favorite are: ABC's, You are my Sunshine, Twinkle, Twinkle, and Granny's You're My Baby. He has memorized them all! He has even started requesting songs in the car by saying "I Want ABC's".

Tate only 4 days old with his big brother S.Jessen

We are constantly working on manners, but he is very good about saying thank you, please (pease), and I'm sorry (I sowwy)! He will even try to say God bless you when we sneeze, but it's still pretty dutchy to understand. Tate is very sensitive and has the worst pouty lip. He's pretty tough, but can get those feelings hurt quite quickly, like Mommy... He can also go from sad to happy in 0.2 seconds. Mention food and you're in the clear! He definitely loves his food. He's also taken to growling when he gets frustrated, like S.Jessen, like Daddy... I'm working on them all :)

Posing with big brother on his 2nd birthday
Summer love at 6 months old

I wish I could remember everything to share about our sweetie Tate. He likes to color (curer) and play with cars, especially Lightning McQween. His favorite characters at this time are Blue's Clues' Blue, Elmo, and Lightning McQween. He is very into playing (chew chew) with S.Jessen while they watch Star Wars, too. The Chew Chew noise is when they clash their light sabers. Tate does still crash nearly every week. He has had about ten times more bruises than S.Jessen ever had at this age, but he is constantly tipping over! He always seems to have a bruise somewhere!

Wild hair at 9 months old
Tate is 1!

The weirdest thing about Tate being 2 is that S.Jessen turned 2 right before we moved in this house and that was last year (well it was last year on the 2oth). He is going to change so much more in the next year, it will be crazy!

15 months old

18 months old

21 months old

Having a December birthday is rough! We had to schedule the parties at random times, but they were all fun. I will add a few pics for those on my next update...