Today is Braxton's second birthday!
FAVORITE THINGS: Braxton loves brushing his teeth. He loves to sing. He loves jumping off of things. He loves running, yelling, and playing outside!
FAVORITE FOODS: Ketchup, pizza, mandarin oranges, bananas, grapes, goldfish crackers, popcorn, chips, ramen noodles, juice. He will nibble an occasional baby carrot but still eats mostly pureed vegetables. Sweet potatoes, carrots, and squash are his favorite veggies.
TALKING: He counts to 20 and says his ABC's. He is starting to correctly name a few letters and numbers and he can identify colors correctly about 70% of the time. The first color that he could identify was "black". If he doesn't know what color something is he always guesses "GREEN". He loves to be a helper and he asks "Braxton helping?" when he wants to help you cut a sandwich or wash his highchair. Some of the newest phrases that he says these days are: “I’m sorry about that”, “Yay, I did it!” and “Thank you SO MUCH”. He’s also becoming quite a negotiator and says things like, “No nap? Okay, no nap!”
QUIRKY: It is football season now and Brock likes to yell during touchdowns in a good football game. Braxton doesn't understand football and used to get scared at the seemingly random cheering. Brock has had to adjust his football viewing a bit. Now whenever there is a touchdown Brock claps his hands and says "yay, happy clapping" and then Braxton claps his hands over and over and says "happy clapping, happy clapping". Then Brock says, "yay touchdown!" and Braxton repeats "yay touchdown!" With these minor adjustments Braxton now enjoys a good football game (but his favorite part of football is sitting with Brock and eating popcorn).
CUTE: Braxton likes animals and likes practicing what different things say (recent stumper questions: what does a giraffe say? what does a turtle say?). Last night his conversation went like this:
What does a horse say? Nay.
What does a donkey say? Eee aww. Eee aww.
What does a pig say? Oinky.
What does a monkey say? Oo, oo, ee, ee
What does daddy say? I love you.
What does mommy say? I love you.
What does Braxton say? I love you.
