Brayden 2.5

At 2.5 you are getting so big, and losing all of your baby fat. I feel like you will soon be as tall as Landon. YOu are prob close to his chin already and weigh prob almost as much as him. You are wearing size 3T clothes, you can still fit into some 2T pants. PJs you can wear 4T. You love the zip up fleece ones but not that you are potty training those are harder to deal with. You can wear the same size underwear as Landon size 4. ahhaha

You finally drink a lot more, you like choc milk and water with crushed ice. You are pickier on what you eat you want mac and cheese everytime. You like meats, hot dogs and ring bologna are your favs. You love fruit..raspberries, strawberries, blue berries and grapes. You like to eat cereal- rice krispies/lucky charms with milk in the mornings.

You still can be a horrible sleeper at times. You will go down just fine. Usually by 8pm.. we take a bath, brush teeth and read you a couple of books and lay you down and well sit in the chair for like 5-10 mins then leave. Sometimes you fall asleep other times you don't but don't care that we leave. Youll often wake up between 1-3 screaming Mom, daddy, mommy till we come get you and then we usually just let you sleep with us bc we are too tired to deal with it. ahha You are persistent and don't give in. I am shocked you haven't climbed out of your crib you put your leg up on it like you will but you don't. We still let you have your paci at naps and bed but should really get rid of it. YOu do not have it at school at all. Youll stometimes go up and find one and carry it downstairs and then we ask you to give it to us and you usually are good about it.

We have had issues with you throwing toys, remotes etc.. usually we will have to go put you in time out in your crib bc it does not work to get you to just sit on the stairs. You get up and move around and laugh. You love to wrestle now with Landon and you push each other all around. Im sure its just the beginning. Sometimes Landon is more afraid of you. haha

You still have your ear tubes and you haven't had an ear infection since getting them. Knock on wood. We just had a checkup and they were still in but on the verge of prob falling out soon. I hope not! We will reevaulate this spring. You are actually seeing the doctor who did my tonsil surgery so its funny to see her now with you. She still remembers me vividly lol.

You love art, painting stickers, play dough, doing everything your self. ME DO IT! YOu push a chair across the kitchen to help us cook, bake do dishes you want to do it all and have no fear.

You do not want ot hold my hand leaving school etc you say no mom and push me away..you often take off running away from me which is so fun when its so bitterly cold out and everyone is staring at me like get control of your kid lady!

We started potty training you just a couple of weeks ago. You would not pee or do anything but sit on it and daycare suggested sending you in underwewar.. you would just hold it in or have accidents..then one night after peeing all over BWWS both seat while screaming IM pooping.... LOL I put a cheerio in your little potty and asked if you could pee on the cheerios and you ran over sat down and peed on them and said I did it! We gave you a dum dum sucker like we did for Landon..no clue why you both love suckers so much and every since you have been doing so good. You went at school the next day and for the next week you were having very few accidents--mostly poop which you would run and hide and poop with your underwear on.. Landon was this was too.. then this pasta weekend you pooped on your potty several times and even on the big potty. We went out to eat and other things and no accidents! You even are waking up dry at nap but we are still putting on a diaper to be safe. It seems to be too good to be true that this has been so easy for you. It took so long with Landon. I guess you are making up for the no sleeping and my way highway attitude of yours. haha

You hate getting your hair cut and scream every time and move all around..