2.5

Ian my little man you are 30 months old also known as 2.5yrs old.  You have tons of words and not just words but sentences.  Lately you've started adding "ey" or "y" to words. Here are some off the top of my head:
Forkey= fork
army=arm
mouthy= mouth
helpy= help

You have started to dress yourself, the 2 holes in your shorts sometimes throws you for a loop and well a t-shirt causes you just as many struggles.  I would say you are 99.9% potty trained, the .1% is when you are too busy playing to stop and go and during sleep time.  Speaking of sleep time you still nap wonderfully for approx 3hrs.  Bedtime is still a struggle, due to daylight savings time the sun doesn't start to go down till about 9:30 and in the last week or so you have developed a love for the pool.  So often times after dinner we will go out and before I know it I look at my watch to see it is 8:30 and we have to start bribing you to get out.  So in short there is no real bedtime routine at the moment.

Now, that we have the bike trailer on days that I workout with you, you get to pick whether we ride bike or run. I perfer bike and I think you prefer run.  We run for a shorter period of time than we bike for.
Onto develpment and your accomplishments I'm sure there are more than what is listed but at the moment I can't remember them all:

• ride tricycle
• swim
• hop
• run (you like to either look at your feet or look behind you though)
• gallop
• dress yourself (pants are often times on backwards, and shirts confuse you at times too with all the holes so close to each other)
• put own shoes on, not always on the right feet but you very rarely give up trying.
• stand on one leg

You mister have an attitude at times and get frustrated very quickly when things aren't operating how you would like them too.  When there is something you don't want to do you say your eye hurts.  You are also very shy when out and about but when you are home and in your own environment you are quite the talker.

You have manners you don't always use them but you do have them we just need to work on being more consistent with using them.  You will say "no, thank you, bless you, please, thank you"  And when we are out and about you decide you are capable of walking and the place we are going has a door that requires opening you say "no, momma me" and then after opening (with some assistance) you will say "momma, you first".  It's all quite adorable and sweet all at the sametime. 

And now time for some pictures:

using mommy as a human balance beam

just hanging out and relaxing while on a run

being cute and goofy

uh oh, didn't get his way

patiently waiting for tires to be rotated, wearing favorite hoodie sweatshirt