Tate turned 2!!

My baby turned 2 on Saturday, and I really can't believe he's that old. In some ways though, it seems like he's been around forever-I don't know what we did with our time before he came around! These are some things about my Tater that make him my sweet, funny, naughty little boy:

*he's a chatterbox, I can understand him but others probably can't

*he loves to sing-some of his favorite songs are "twinkle, twinkle little star", "abc's", "I'm so glad when daddy comes home", and the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme. He tries so hard to get all the words but he can't keep up very well

*he likes to dance to "Right Round" by Flo Rida--don't ask me why

*he laughs when I take him to time out...it's so irritating

*he goes to time out quite a bit

*he loves to watch Caillou, Mickey Mouse, and Max & Ruby

*he loves to kick balls all over the yard with dad

*his version of counting to ten is "one, two, six, seven, nine!!"

Tate was a spoiled boy, he got 2 parties--one with each side of the family. On Saturday we went swimming at Grandma Love's and had pizza and cake, then Sunday went to Grandma Wakefield's and had dinner and cupcakes and played in the sprinkers! These are the highlights from the parties:

This was our present to Tate-a race track...I think Jord likes is just as much as TateSwimming! It's a good thing he had a life vest on because the little stinker loved to run away from Jord and jump in before he could catch him

Blowing out the candles on his "Buzz Lightyear" cake

All the presents from the Love's

Opening presents and the Wakefield's

I didn't want to do another cake so we just did cupcakes shaped into a football

4th of July week.

I love any holidays with kids because it's just more fun, and it breaks up the every day monotony of....life! So last week was great, it was Riverton Days, (I refuse to spell it with the "zz" like they always do, it's lame) Alexa, Hailey, Jord and Tate on the Dragon Coaster-Tate loved it but got a bloody lip from smacking his face on the lap bar...
Jord won this monkey shooting hoops at the fair. Tate was so excited but now where am I going to put an oversized stuffed monkey??

Then we went to the ranch overnight on Friday. Tate was great during the day and had so much fun riding the 4-wheelers, playing with his cousins, and just being able to run free! But nights are awful with him anywhere but home. He is a very scheduled child and if he gets thrown off even a little bit, it's nightmarish. So needless to say, we came home early on Saturday to take very long naps!We tried going to the rodeo in Mount Pleasant and Tate was good for about the first 45 minutes and then was finished....so we didn't get to stay for very long.
Then Saturday night we decided to just stay home and chill and do our own little fireworks in our circle. I forget sometimes how easily entertained kids are--Tate could've cared less about any big and loud fireworks around. He was just as enthralled with the little tanks and spinners.