23 Month Milestone.. how can this be SO!

23 month milestone

So we're less than a month away from being TWO years old... He has Jon and I laughing non stop with his sense of humor and quirkiness. The other day we got in the car and started down the road and he says. "where ya goin? you goin to mimi's house?" and we said 'no, not mimi's.. so he says, 'you goin to da stooore ?' He has a little bit of a drawled out twang when he talks.. cant imagine WHERE hes picking that up from?! :)  

Like I said, his quirks are all still in place. The next few pictures are an example of one of his many.. We play with the good old fashion alphabet fridge magnets on a weekly basis. He loves to spell out names and learn letters. There are 3 - O's in the bag of letters and EVERY time he takes the three O's and puts them together as you see below..

                                      
 If I spell out a word and use one of the o's he will immediately remove it and put it back up with the other 2 o's.. He can be out of the room and i'll move one of the o's just to see what he does.. and without fail he will spot it immediately and put it back in its row. just one of the many random things that make him our kellen!
                                     

He isn't all about one toy. It definitely changes every day as to what toy is the pick of the day. With an older brother that has tons of small Lego pieces, he learned from early on (probably too early) that they dont go in his mouth or he cant play with them. So having mastered this, he now plays with Lego's almost every day.
I have found that its pretty much impossible to keep him out of jaxson's room and toys. We try to put any of the toys jaxson deems 'sacred' up on the shelves in his closet, but as for the rest of them they are fair game to the little boy that lives in the house 24 hours a day. (sorry jax)
His sense of humor is fun.. Jon has him thinking theres a gorilla that lives in the back of our house so he will pretend and play along. He'll make a gorilla noise and then get this hilarious 'spooked' face and say, 'whats that ?!. and then yell out to the gorilla. 'you hear me goriya?' haha
My heart is mush for this child of mine.
In the spirit of his second birthday quickly approaching,
Take a little stroll with me down picture memory lane here....

                      

                                         Below is the day he first rolled over .. we were at Mimi's house and I just happened to have the camera with me that day.

The next one is probably my favorite snapshot ever.. as a momma there just are no words. sigh

                                

                             If I'm ever having a frumpy day I can track these pictures down and within seconds I am smiling and feeling better. instant med pics! Just a random day we decided to take some random pictures and he just randomly decided to stick his tongue out in every picture. Maybe he was catching the guitar vibe on his shirt. rockin out! who knows. just one of the MANY things about him that make him our one and only Kellen.

..... and here he is now. at 23.5 months old!

He loves to 'hide' under his blankie and covers. Hide n seek is a classic that is a hit. He counts and says 'oooone, twoooo, here come, eddy ohr not!'  :)

While staying at mimi's the other day he got to learn letters and sing songs with the preschool kiddos. One of their song choices of the day was 'if you re happy and you know it' .. so the below picture is what he does during the 'face will surely show it' part of the song. a small side note: he looks soooo much like me in my baby pictures here.

With the help of a tasty orange sucker and his daddy, we ventured out on a chilly afternoon and got some great scrapbook snapshots. Love my sweet family.