Cute (or not so cute) things Cole is doing

-He loves to wear his car hat, boots, and any clothes or pajamas with cars on them. Sometimes he even refuses to wear something that doesn't have a car on it. I thought only girls were picky about their clothes!

-He loves his dump trucks and cars. He put on a plastic yellow firefighter hat, backwards to make it look like a hard hat I guess (don't know where he saw that before), and went to work dumping cars from one dump truck to another, or from his front loader to the truck. I was pretty impressed by his skills! I made him come back to take this picture, so he's not very happy with me.

-Last week he got a big spray bottle out from a cabinet and wanted water in it. He figured out that it was too big to fit in the water dispenser on the fridge, so he got a smaller spray bottle, filled it with water a few times and dumped it into the larger bottle. He then put the sprayer on top and started squirting everything with water. I gave him a paper towel when he sprayed my sliding glass door-what a good helper he is!

-He was standing by the sliding door in the kitchen last Thursday and just started counting out loud-he counted all the way to 7! Pretty good for a two year old.

-He likes to sing along with me when I sing him songs at night-"Twinkle, Twinkle little star" and "Jesus Loves Me". He has been singing "Twinkle, Twinkle" by himself all day long recently.

-He loves to dance to music. We have magnets on the fridge that play music and he will push the buttons and dance in front of the fridge while I'm doing dishes or cooking. (I dance with him, of course)

-My neighbor watched him when I took Alyssa to the doctor last week. Cole and her little girl Lilly (who is 3 months younger than Cole) went into her half bath when she went upstairs for a few minutes. They turned on the water in the sink and pushed the stopper closed. She didn't hear any noises and came to check on them-she found them in the bathroom, water overflowing onto her floor and two 2 year olds soaked from head to toe. Apparently with Cole's and Lilly's previous individual bathroom water playing experiences, they came together to create a big mess!

-He shows me a car and tells me who is in it. He showed me a red car and said "Grandma in there." Then he showed me a red truck and said "Grandpa in there" and pointed to the bed of the truck and said "My in there". This needs a little explanation. Grandma and Grandpa recently got a truck with an open bed, and Cole loves to stand in it when they come over and it is parked in front of the house. He says it is his! Then he showed me a blue vehicle and said "Daddy in there, and my". Now I just need to work on him saying "me" or "Cole". I'd take either.

-The kids have an alphabet puzzle with pictures under each letter of something that starts with that letter. There is a train under T and a xylophone under X. Cole thinks the xylophone is a traintrack, so he kept pointing at the train saying "Choo choo" and then pointing to the xylophone and saying "on there". He did this for about 10 minutes while I was trying to get Alyssa to say which letters I was holding up and find where they go in the puzzle until we covered them up.