Mama Gets to Gush

The only thing I love more than my little Dutch is the opportunity to talk about him.  I have a lot of great friends (with and without kids) who love my little guy and don't mind when I go on and on about him.  A friend I haven't talked to in a while was asking about Dutch and it made me realize that I might not have shared a lot of this with you, my blog readers.  It was easier to blog when we weren't close to any family.  Now I can't remember who I've told what to, so forgive me if this is repetitious, but allow me to take a moment and gush about my baby.

Dutch is 2!  Can you believe it?  Chris and I were talking the other day about how it seems like such a short time in some ways, but feels like forever in other ways.  We just can't remember life before Dutch.  It was the same way with Bo.  He fit so completely into our little family that it seemed like we'd always had him.

Dutch is my little sound-effects baby.  He can tell you what a dog, cat, cow, fish, lizard, and bird say.  He LOVES to make car sounds: vroom, beep-beep, and the sound of a car shifting that seems to be a staple in all boys repertoire.  He isn't really talking very much still; he'll babble, but he doesn't use a whole lot of words.  Sometimes I worry about it, but most of the time I'm not too concerned.

It's so funny to me that I can already tell what kind of learner he's going to be.  Dutch is 100% tactile in everything he does.  He wants to touch it and try it out.  Not to mention if he sees you do something once he can almost always replicate it.  Not always a good thing.  For instance, he can unlock and open our front door.  If we don't keep the chain on he escapes about 3 or 4 times a day.

Bo is still his best friend.  It makes me laugh because he loves to boss Bo around.  It's as though he feels like everyone else gets to boss him around, so he needs someone to boss.  Bo is pretty patient with Dutch too.  When Dutch body-slams him he just gets up and moves.  We were very lucky to have a dog as mellow as Bo.  Any other dog would have bit my little boy by now!

He loves his push toys and we've found that he's more willing to go on a walk and not want to be picked up and carried if he has his little cart thingie to push.  This has made walking to get the mail a much more pleasant experience.  He's getting WAY too heavy to haul around, but try to tell him that!

The saddest thing about him being 2 is the fact that he's so much more active and thereby so much skinnier.  He's lost almost all of his chubs.  The only place he's still got some is his cute little belly.  He's still got a milk belly.  And no bum at all!  It's amazing his pants stay up (and, let's face it, a lot of times they don't).

The other thing about Dutch is that he is a fruit and veggie eater.  We have had to get a lock on the fridge door because otherwise he would eat an entire flat of blueberries, or strawberries, or blackberries, or... you get the idea.  I don't think he's ever met a fruit or veggie that he didn't like.  I guess he takes after his Mama in that sense.

And he takes after his Daddy in the fact that he's a total flirt!  He'll bat his (incredibly long) eyelashes and coo at anything female.  He loves girls!  And he doesn't care about age, weight, hair color, or anything else.  If she smiles at him that's enough.

So there are some things you might not have known about my silly baby boy.