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| Wyatt turned 2 on January 27! |
Here are some of the things you are doing these days:
Height: 36 inches (1 ¾ inches taller than Will when Will turned 2)
Weight: 31 lbs
Counts 1-13 then a bunch of “teens” but not in order
Favorite Play time Activities: hide and seek, cooking things in the McDonald’s kitchen and serving them up, BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, trains and train tracks, anything with Will, new rocket from his birthday, putting together Mr. Potato Head with every pair of eyes he can find!
Favorite thing to sleep with: Yellow knit blanket he’s had since he was a bun in the oven made by Great Grandma Leiting and a folded blanket for your “pillow”
Favorite books: We’re going on a Bear Hunt (although he’s afraid of the bear and puts his blanket over his head for that page), Chugga Chugga Choo-Choo, Dragon in a Wagon, Where or where is Hugga Bugga Bear?
Favorite night time routine: Have a cup of milk, brush his own teeth, read LOTS of stories, rock and sing Rockabye Baby, Twinkle Twinkle, or Hickory Dickory Dock. He’s very particular about sitting facing out and sort of sideways when we rock. Then he must have his blue and brown polka dot blanket folded a certain way for his “pillow” and his yellow blanket. Then he’s ready to sleep!
If you ask him what color this is and point to it, he will correctly tell you Pink and Yellow. But if you ask him to point to a specific color, he knows Pink, Yellow, Green, Red, Blue.
Goes on the big boy potty about 1-2 times a day
Eats a hearty breakfast and usually a good lunch, but when it comes to dinner, he usually only eats his veggies and or fruit. Unless, we're having pizza ;)
Loves singing, sings while he plays, sings in the car, loves to sing at bed time
Tells us stories that we can understand – we can understand about 90% of what he says now. One of his favorite phrases “Don’t Like it (then he names what he doesn’t like)” such as “Don’t Like it Will’s singing” He doesn’t like anyone to sing with him!
Wyatt has assumed Will’s spot on the bench at the table and Will sits in a chair.
Waking up – We all have our addictions. If you are part Donahue, you fall victim to addictions. Wyatt is addicted to his mommy. Wyatt only wants Mommy in the morning, he wakes up and does not do any playful chatter in his crib like most 2 yr olds before they are actually ready to get out of their bed. Wyatt starts while his eyes are still closed, with, “Maaaaaa-meeee,” then a slightly louder, “Maaa-MEEE…,” then louder again but shorter, “Maa-maaa,” then louder again, “Maaaa – MAAAA,” then a super loud, gets me out of bed or where-ever I am to come running so he doesn’t wake his brother up, “MAAAAAAAAAA-MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!” Ok ok ok. This doesn’t happen over 5 minutes. This happens over less than a minute. So, really, there’s not much time from the first “Maaa-meee” to the alarm of “MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Most mornings, Jeff has gone to work by the time Wyatt gets up so Wyatt has grown accustom to waking up to me. However, on the weekends, if Jeff goes into get Wyatt up, Jeff comes back into our bedroom within 30 seconds defeated. Wyatt has thrown a fit that Jeff is there to help him out of bed and throws out some phrases such as, “No, Mommy” and “No, Daddy” and “Go away” and “Get out of my room.” If Jeff tries to pick him up, he throws his body around and makes even more noise to wake up Will. So Jeff says fine, you can stay in your bed and he returns to our bedroom. Jeff hasn’t even reached our bed and we here the beginning again, “Maaaa-meee…”
Wyatt loves to be like his big brother. Often times, when I give the boys a choice, Wyatt looks at Will excitedly to await what Will will choose and then Wyatt will choose whatever his big brother chooses.
We look forward to Wyatt’s next year as he is learning more and more each day along with showing us his personality. He and Will get along great, for the most part. There are daily fights, but there are also many displays of affection and considerations for each other. I’m excited that they have each other throughout this life and excited for their future lifelong friendship.
