Terrible Two's or Three's

Perhaps it hits later for some than others but... Reilly has decided that it's more effective to whine and throw himself on the floor kicking and screaming versus using his new found vocabulary to communicate. Somedays I have the patience for it, and somedays I do not. Ugh. Fortunately when I don't have the patience Shad does, so we complement each other well that way.

Reilly wants what he wants when he wants it. I would imagine it will be magnified even more when Baby Pickles comes into our home.

Ugh.

dot com

I'm not proud of this but... I do find it fascinating... Reilly and I were having breakfast this morning and watching pbs. The theme song for pbs came on and it started out with "pbs kids" and Reilly added "dot com" at the end of it.

Wow... how times have changed.

Easter Egg Hunts

Reilly and Brenna had about 20 eggs to "pick up" yesterday in our annual Easter egg hunt at my parents. It just so happens that Reilly grabbed all the ones with candy and coins and Brenna grabbed all the ones with Matchboxes in them. Lucky me - a candy high - and wanting all of Brenna's cars.

I guess this is the beginning of the always wanting what the other kids have phase. Here come the 3's. :-)

Trucks... trucks... trucks...

Playing trucks with Reilly is fun - however, playing by his rules is not quite as fun. There is only one truck and one person I can play with. The other 26 are his and I'm not allowed to touch them. What's up with that?

Happy Birthday.... oops

Now, we've known it was Daddy's birthday today for quite some time. Reilly's known for several months but since he's a 2 1/2 year old, I reminded him over the past few days. And me, well, I've known pretty much since I met Shad 8 years ago that today was his birthday.

Blame it on pregnancy hormones, my self-centric world these days, or whatever you want but... Reilly and I forgot to say HB to Daddy today.

Fortunately we caught him on the way to work and Reilly was able to sing him a little birthday tune. PHEW... thank goodness for cell phones. (right Deep?)

Black or White in a toddlers world

I am beginning to see that Reilly thinks in black and white and gray is not part of his world yet... many things have reinforced this theory to me, but most recently this is what happened:

"Reilly, ask Daddy if he's grumpy"
"Daddy, are you grumpy"
"No, I'm hungry"
"No, no, Daddy, I said grumpy not hungry"