Happy 2nd Birthday Brendan

Our little boy turned 2 today! Its amazing how much he has changed. Every day he learns new things.

What he's up to:

• Very social and says Hi to everyone he sees
• Continues to add new words and signs everyday.
• His favorite thing is motorcycles - he loves to see them when we're driving around. He also loves dinosaurs and trains. He's such a boy!
• loves to play outside
• Still a great sleeper with bedtime around 630. He loves his nighttime routine changing into his pjs, brushing his teeth and reading a book.

Today we celebrated his birthday with a party. The theme was trains - he was dressed as a little conductor and all the kids had conductor hats and train whistles. We had a Thomas the train pinata and the kids colored Thomas coloring pages.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Brendan had a great Christmas - this year he was excited unwrapping his gifts and playing with his toys - last year he was mostly interested in the bows. Being the only grandchild of 4 sets of grandparents he got extra spoiled - he even had to take a nap before finished unwrapping all his gifts. The big hits were tools and remote controlled cars.

Christmas morning

first glimpse of the tree and presents

time for some grilling

wearing his frog boots and fixing his car

Brendan was very excited to go see Santa this year but didn't want to sit on his lap.

Last week we hosted a cookie party for Brendan's friends and their families. These are Brendan's cookies - he had to also taste them.

new pjs

its getting cold here in the evenings so we had to get Brendan some new pjs - after he put them on he decided he needed to run around being silly.

its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Our outside lights are up and we've decorated inside - the only thing left to do is to get the tree! Brendan loves to help Rob turn on the Christmas lights each night.

Here's a cool link to a map great light displays in phoenix
Holiday Lights 2007

Tonight Brendan and I went to the Frys Shopping Center holiday celebration - there was santa, a few clowns, K-9 police team, fire engine and holiday music. And lots of treats, which was Brendan's favorite part. He liked seeing Santa but wasn't up for sitting on his lap. The K-9 connection people thought Brendan was adorable with his Santa hat so they asked if they could put his picture their website:

http://www.thek9connection.org/imgbig.asp?id=fiorellas-5.jpg

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