Porter is 2!!

Thursday, March 3, Porter turned 2 years old!  What a big boy.  Porter is an awesome kid, with a bunch of everything all mixed in one sweet little boy.  He is happy, kind, dirty, messy, smart, funny, and independent.  He is often galloping around the house (I think he thinks he is jumping, but his feet barely leave the ground).  His favorite foods are pizza and chicken nuggets and french fries.  He loves to go to "Giggo King" (Burger King) to eat and play on the slides.  He knows what Burger King is from the logo and will point out ones we have never even taken the kids to. 

He LOVES trains and Thomas the Train.  Like Carson, he is particular about what he wants to wear.  But he chooses a train shirt or a Thomas shirt every day.  Sometimes we have to let him wear his Thomas pj shirt as a normal shirt, because, again, I can't do laundry that often.  And he always says he wants a Thomas shirt on his belly.  Every morning when we go in his room to get him and Hudson, he says "you have a shirt."  ???  I don't know what goes on in that little head but it sure does crack me up. 

He is speaking in full sentences most of the time.  I think I understand him 95 % of the time.  Even Travis, sometimes has a hard time knowing what he says.  One of his new sayings  is "Look at that, Mommy, it's a _____" and he says whatever it is.  It could be anything, something cool or a truck or a slide or a plate or clouds, usually pretty random things, but they are always something that is around us.  So I guess he thinks they are pretty cool. 

Porter loves going to church and going to the nursery.  He can barely make it through Sacrament Meeting to run down the hall.  As soon as we open the door to the nursery, he runs in straight to the toys.  And he is pretty good with saying 'bye' and giving his teachers hugs or high fives.  And then he always tells me about his pictures of Jesus that he colors.  I absolutely love him!

Porter adores both of his brothers.  He is copying Carson all the time, both words and actions.  And they completely understand each other's nonsense.  But he also knows when to run.  He can quickly steal a toy from Carson and then take-off.  And he always goes and plays by Hudson.  He is always aware of the things going on around him.  If I walk in the room holding Hudson, he says, hi to him. 

He giggles a lot.  And it makes me laugh when he tries to run away from something, but he is gigg

ling to much to even go fast.  He really likes to go outside and ride his bike.  Which is a BigWheels bike that is way to big for him.  But he can use his feet to push it around a little bit. 

Porter has climbed out of his crib quite a few times, but doesn't do it that much. He climbs up onto the rail and then lays there. It's so weird. He has already done the hard part but he told Travis one day that he didn't want to fall. He is starting to fight naps and bedtime. But he is such a pushover. If I tell him Wrigley is waiting for him in his bed and Wrigley is very tired, then he goes right down and cuddles with him with a big smile.

There is so much more about Porter, so many things are just so hard to describe.  He is so unique.  But most of all we are so glad he is part of our family. We love him.  He makes us smile.  He wears me out!

Here are A LOT of pictures from his actual birthday and today when we celebrated it (since Travis wasn't able to on Thursday).  They aren't in chronological order.  I will go back later and write details about the pics.  But for now, these are for my parents.

**Updated 3/7/11--I wrote some things about what was going on in the pictures**

I walked into the room and found Porter and Hudson playing together.  It was very sweet. I love how both Porter and Carson say they want to play with Hudson and then go lay on the floor by him.  If they don't he crawls/scoots/worms his way over to them.

Porter got his first Thomas and Percy trains for his birthday.  He was so happy to be playing with them.  This picture was BEFORE Carson got home from school.

 

Porter must have know it was his birthday because he woke up like this.  He was trying to get in his birthday suit all by himself. Thank goodness he didn't make it that far.

 

Porter picking apart his cupcake after we sang 'Happy Birthday'.

Carson, inhaling his.

Aunt Lisa, holding and feeding Hudson.

 

Lisa and Hudson and Uncle Ethan, at Porter's "party".  We didn't really have a party.  We just invited family over for cheap pizza and cupcakes to sing to Porter.

Grandma Grover being shy (yeah right, haha) and Uncle Troy.

Hudson and his cousin Allyson.  These kids are so sweet, they always want to hold babies!!

Porter chose to wear that shirt, again.

I love his faces in these pictures.  They get his sugar and he LOVES it.  He pretends he doesn't want it, but when they stop he begs for more!

Cousin Jackson holding Hudson.

Porter kept backing away from the giraffe and that tongue couldn't quite reach.  He wasn't so sure about the whole thing.

But Carson thought it was awesome.  He fed Charlie like 10 pieces of lettuce.

Having a fun day at the zoo.

They all loved the camel ride.  Even the camel was posing.

While at the zoo, Hudson hung out in the stroller and took a nap.  Hardly made a peep the whole 2 1/2 hours.

Carson liked this dragon (it's fake) and kept giving it kisses.  Gross.

I think this was Porter's first ride on the carousel without crying.  Carson immediately picked out the cheetah.  He also never took off those sunglasses the whole time we were there.

Porter's birthday present from us and grandparents.

The boys are obsessed with it.  It came with all the tracks and trains and makes noises when the trains cross certain pieces. You can also use any of the wooden magnetic trains on it.  So we have some Thomas ones and some from IKEA that work on it.  It is pretty sweet.

Carson's first tantrum came about 5 minutes after they first saw it.  He kept telling Porter "No, Porter, it's MINE!  It's not yours!"

 

Porter was pretty oblivious to the tantrums.

Hudson even likes it.  He crawls over to it and gets under the kids feet and tries to pull himself up.

Porter got a Thomas book and coloring book and a Thomas card from his Grandma Margie and Grandpa Norm. Hudson is helping.

I think he had an awesome birthday!