2 Years.

After a few attempts he has mastered climbing onto his very own birthday bike (thanks to Harv and Helene!) and spent the entire evening and next day, and the next, climbing up and just sitting - or else shouting, "Look Mom! I'm on my motorcycle!"
Yesterday he let Derek push him around the house on it and now he asks for a push from Daddy every five minutes. I refuse to push a bike that has pedals, so I keep trying to teach him how to use the pedals. He'll get it eventually.

Our first fire of the summer was on Luke's birthday. A wonderful day to break in our new fire pit and set the children free in our newly fenced in yard!
His birthday gift from me and Derek is still in the works. We told Luke that we are planning on building him a sandbox this week. Luke keeps running to Derek and saying, "Do you wanna build me a birthday sandbox?"

Who knew that cupcakes would be such a headache?! I thought it would be easier than a cake, but it turns out that cupcakes have to stay out on the counter (because how do you stack cupcakes?) where beasts of all shapes and sizes can lay their sticky little fingers on them! I had to redo the writing on individual cupcakes five times. FIVE. He's definitely a two-year old now. And Asha, you better believe he followed your advice and had TWO cupcakes, because he's two like you! He's going to be abusing that line, I can already tell. "I need two pieces of cake. I need two bowls of ice cream. I need two race cars."