Goofballs

The Quigs fam came over tonight to play and have dinner. MacTroll and I needed a break from building with X-man (8 hours of pretend hammering and changing tires was enough). Bubba is 17 days younger than X-man, not surprisingly they are developmentally similar. They have similar sharing issues, they're similar in size, they have around the same speech ability and they love a lot of the same stuff. As they get closer to 3, it's becoming almost impossible for them to keep their hands off one another. X-man likes to put blankets over people's heads, knock them down and say, "I gotcha" to instigate play and show his affection. Bubba likes to stand 3 feet away and laugh this maniacal laugh to try and entice play and show he's having fun and enjoys your company.

Bubba has parts of Thomas and Yo-Gaba-Gaba memorized and can put magic spells on you or dance and sing to the songs. X-man, this morning, was talking and singing along with an episode of Diego. 

It's comforting to have so many friends with kids within a year of X-man's age. There's a sense of understanding between the parents, because our wily toddlers turning pre-schoolers all have some crazy behavior or another. As we move forward, we're all getting closer to surviving the 2's and rearing up for a year of 3's. We're looking forward to losing the diapers, gaining more language and understanding, but not so much the wandering away in supermarkets, talking back and negotiations about everything. But with the good comes the not so good, and we'll deal with it one step at a time.

And yeah, my kid's the nose picker. :-)