Months 23 and 24

 Easton happily got his first haircut at 23 months.  He was totally distracted by the movie, the red car chair and the lollipop that he didn't even fuss for his hair cut.  I can't believe how different my baby looks now. He is so grown up!

 For a while, like ever since I found out I was pregnant, Easton was nursing once a day only in the mornings.  Then, he didn't ask for milk a couple days in a row.  We went back to once a day nursing, when he asked for more, and shortly after that, he just stopped asking for milk.  Now, every once in a while you can tell he's thinking about it because he will say out of nowhere, "Mommy's milk all done" and then give me a big hug.  I'm so proud of my big boy, and relieved that this was a natural, painless process for us both.  I had tried cutting down on the nursing earlier than that because of his chipped tooth, but neither of us were really ready for it. 

Easton has three out of four back molars.  He has been working on that last one.  I usually remember that he is teething when I am wondering what in the heck happened to my sweet even tempered baby.  Then I realize his mouth is hurting him and we take care of that problem with a little teething gel.

Some of my favorite things that Easton says are:
 "AAAHHH!" which means ice cream, or more appropriately, I scream. 
"Eenie" for Easton.  He has recently started calling himself "Ee-ton" once in a while, and has even said Easton a couple times.  I kind of want him to say Eenie forever.
"My Eenie" which means I.  as in "ha, ha, My Eeenie waff"  when something is funny.  I laugh.
He says his full name like this, "Eenie Minoh Gwober"  for Easton Michael Grover.
"whizpopper" when he farts.  We read the BFG and that's what the BFG calls them.  All of a sudden Easton started doing the same. It was really funny, because he did it on his own.  We never actually taught him this. I think it's a much cuter word anyway ;)

Easton knows when he does something that he isn't supposed to, because he will come up to us and apologize. He says "soddy" and does his "I'm sorry" sign.  I love that he mostly does this unprompted.

Easton loves when Daddy comes home from work.  The second he hears a noise from outside, he exclaims, "MY DADDY HOME!!!!!!" and runs to the door to greet Lane with a giant hug.

Easton

wakes up from his nap and calls for his sister to come help him out of bed, "e-yah-yah!"

He has been using the potty on and off, and has even done a little poo-poo in the potty, but nothing regularly. It will happen in time.

Easton recognizes the letter E out and about on signs and says, "My E, Eenie!" He can make lower case Es also and exclaims when he does, 'My make E, Eenie!"

He loves to help Daddy with chores. The other day, Easton helped Lane by carrying a log for the fire inside the house.  The whole time, he said, "My Eenie help Daddy make fire, so heavy!!!" Then he went out in the garage with Lane and sat on his lap while Lane split some wood for kindling.

Easton kind of freaks out about spiders, flies, spider webs, and any tiny fleck of anything that is not supposed to be in the tub.Other than that, he is a sweet, happy, agreeable big two year old. 

We love our Easton Michael to pieces.