yes, oh yes yess.. 22 month milestone

TODAY this little tyke is 22 months old...wowza!

He loves to be outside so much that we are bundling him up and battling the freezing cold temps just to let him go outside for 15 minutes a day so he doesn't feel deprived!

There are too many things to even remember them all when I go to set down at this computer and write this... he loves Batman now and has added spider man to the list of recognizable caped crusaders... he has two batman play shirts and if he had it his way he would wear one of them around the clock 24 hours a day.. and has any ones kid been all about spoons?? we own 5 toddler spoons and he carries anywhere from 2-5 around with him everywhere like toys ??? the only thing we can guess is that he can chew on them because of the rubber ends.. who knows.. just one of his many many baby quirks that makes him Kellen!

and we just keep adding to the nightly routine we have.. like now he not only needs his 'blankie', he needs his blankie, 2 cars, at least 2 spoons, and George his monkey.. he doesn't throw a fit about it or anything, he just asks for all of it and says please and i figure sure, WHY NOT. (he's only a tad spoiled)

This of course is all after he asks to say his 'payers'. he bows his head and looks at me and I just about melt. He also gets very excited to say 'amen'. that part he has dowwwwwwn.

In the spirit of the month of December we decided his 22 month snapshots needed to be deck the halls and

oh so merry and bright. Not to mention he loves our holiday boxes. he rearranges them all under both of our trees and at any given time you could open one up and find a couple of hot wheels or spoons! 

This is the smile that captivates my heart.. he laughs and smiles and plays and jokes around allll the time. Jon and I can get him to smile better then anyone else.. He looooves his momma and daddy!

                                                                     His eyes are blue, but his green sweater and green tree are making them look green. my eyes do that also. they are green, but if I'm wearing blue they look blue.. yada yada.. he has great eyes to go with that kilowatt toothy grin!  

The next one cracks me up.. I was trying to 'pose' him and tell him to prop his hands up on the box.. his expression pretty much tells you his thoughts on the matter.

                                                                     He plays a lot with Lily and other kids over at my moms house almost every week. They have a little kid kitchen and play room and play all day and have a blast together. He has picked up some cute things from those couple of older kiddos.. He likes to make me coffee and cook me soup.. its unreal what this baby can whip up with a badder spoon, a coffee mug and a measuring cup! Yesterday he made me 'coggee' and 'onion soup' .. the best part about it is he has no idea what onions or soup even are.. lol  we have discovered that its the 'f's' that he is having a hard time pronouncing.. like with coffee, he says 'coggee'.. he calls fries 'stries' .. I love to hear him count, 'kellen count for momma'. he'll say ' ooooooone, twoooooo, treeeeeee, six'... maybe he decided the F-our and F-ive were too hard to pronounce so he'd just skip 'em!... :)  He is my precious boy.