2 Year Checkup

Jake had his 2-year checkup on January 5. He lost 1 pound & his height is the same as his 18-month checkup. 37 pounds & 38 inches tall. Still off the charts for both. He got a clean bill of health. This was our last appointment with our pediatrician before we move to Birmingham & have to find a new pediatrician. Dr. Tigar has been so great. As soon as Jake was born, there were some medical issues and Dr. Tigar was just so comforting and knowledgeable. He has been a great doctor and we will miss him greatly. So what all is going on in this 2-year-old's life?

• His favorite thing is for you to read to him. He has to sit in your lap though. And he doesn't mind if you read the same book 100 times to him. Some of his favorite books are all Llama Llama books, his Thomas the Train book (which is missing half of its pages now), Thomas the Train Christmas book, the Laura Numeroff books (If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, etc...), Dr. Seuss The Foot Book & Are You My Mother, Curious George books and Eric Carle books. I love to hear him "read" the books. He remembers certain words from certain pages. It's so funny.
• He loves the shows on PBS. His favorites are Sid the Science Kid, Curious George, Dinosaur Train & Super Why (which his calls "Wyatt" because the main kid's name is Wyatt & there used to be a Wyatt in his class at school).
• He also loves sports, wrestling, cars, and trains.
• He doesn't love shopping (I've got about 10 minutes in a store until he looses it. He says "all done" and then stands up in the cart. And if you dare let him down to walk around, you might as well abandon your cart & just leave the store.
• He talks up a storm. Sometimes its gibberish, but 75% of the time you can figure out what he is talking about. And he will repeat ANYTHING. (Which is funny & scary)
• He has very good manners (which we owe to the daycare). He goes overboard saying "please" and "thank you". But I'll take it! It is so sweet. He says "thank you" every time you kiss him if he has a boo-boo. When we were at his checkup, they had to prick his finger to draw blood. When the nurse was finished he told her "thank you". She said that was the first time she had ever been thanked by a kid after drawing blood! He also says "bless you" anytime you sneeze (or cough). I love it! It definitely makes up for the times when his manners are not so good. (like "NO!" & "Stop it Mommy")
• He is still a great sleeper & actually likes his crib. I think that's why I'm scared to change his crib to the toddler bed. He goes to bed around 8:00. I wake him around 7:00 on the weekdays (which he doesn't want to get out of bed! I thought that didn't happen until they were teenagers.) On the weekend mornings, I'm not sure when he gets up, but he'll play in his crib until around 9:00. This past weekend we got to actually take advantage of it. Around 9:00 we could hear him in the monitor saying "mommy, I poo-pooed". Guess that was our sign to go get him up. He has also learned how to take off his pajama bottoms, so most morning & I find him with no bottoms on.
• He is really starting to mimic us, which if very funny. He likes to play with anything that's ours. You can tell he is also really starting to remember things. The other day, he had gotten our laptop, put it on the coffee table, opened it & had turned it own. He had about 20 windows open and somehow changed the background on our screen. When we found him, he was saying "Sid, Sid". He is such a lovable little mess.