Mack 26 months

At 26 months here are just a few of Mack's highlights:

• Loves watching football and mimicking the players as he gets in position to run with the ball and then falls down.  He thinks to tackle is to get a touchdown and loves tackling his daddy and yelling touchdown.
• Mack is constantly talking, unless he just met you but give him about 5 minutes and you'll be his best friend if you give him any attention
• Constantly singing, dancing, playing instruments
• Discovering old toys as if they are brand new
• Knows several of his shapes such as triangle, square, circle, heart, star, flower etc
• Can count to 10 (sometimes in random order but he does know his numbers 1-10)
• Knows his colors but has a hard time if it's a lighter or darker hue of a color, it can tend to confuse him but he has the basics down
• Playing cars, his favorite is to line them up in a perfect row
• He has a best friend named Ethan, who is just a few months older than him.  He also has a younger brother who is just a few months older than Parker.
• Mack has learned that daddy, Parker and himself are boys and mommy is a girl
• Still loves to help but new things that he particularly likes to help with are loading and unloading the dishwasher and helping make his bed.
• Mack is a very picky eater, he will look at something and if he doesn't like the color or the way it looks he says, "I don't like it".  He will also change his mind from one day to the the next whether he likes something.  He loves fruit but won't touch a vegetable, some days he likes meat other days he doesn't.  One thing that is unusual is he drinks more than anyone I know (well except for his daddy), the kid drinks at least 100 ounces of liquid a day!
• Gets excited every time we go to church and loves trying to tell us what he learned in his class, how he marched to some songs, what toys he played with and with who he played with as well as part of some Bible story.  
• Mack knows the general direction to get to his Grammy and Papa's.  (What 2 year pays attention like that, it really amazes us!)
• One of our favorite moments this month was on January 15th, we were putting Mack to bed and reading a bible story to him.  He noticed Jesus on the cross had some owies and kept mentioning them.  We explained that Jesus got those owies so we can be forgiven of our sins.  Mack says, my sins? mommy's sins? Parker's sins? daddy's sins? Then he says, sorry Jesus, my sins! What an awesome way to end our day.

Went to Build a Bear for the first time, he's giving his dog a bath.

We named his dog Patches.

Mmmmmmm

Meeting Great Grandmother Marian for the first time.

Mack's friends, Ethan and Sophia.

Loves holding his plush Nemo while watching Finding Nemo.

Taking his medicine.

He says he's going to the store to get bananas!

Playing at the beach.

Daddy has been training for a triathalon and Mack wants to be like him.

Helping mommy at the grocery store.

Lining up his cars.

Playing his guitar.

Mack in his class at church.

Riding the train at the mall.

Mack's best friend, Ethan.