Officially 2 1/2!

Finn is officially two-and-a-half! He is the sweetest, most well-behaved he has ever been and I am keeping fingers crossed behind my back that we have skipped the terrible twos altogether. Or, maybe it's true that tantrums and terrible twos are cultural (did you see the movie Babies? African and Mongolian two-year-olds do not have tantrums, whereas the Japanese and American babies had epic ones. Hmmm...).

Anyway, something is going right in his life, because Finn has also started to sleep soundly through the night, 11-12 hours at a stretch. It has taken 2 1/2 years, but we are finally there.

What else is new with our little man?

1. He is an incredibly sophisticated talker for 2 1/2. I think his outgoing nature has given him a leg up on speech, because this kid will talk your ear off. He often strikes conversations with strangers and especially loves kids.
2. He loves his little sister and has turned 180 degrees from the day she was born. He is the first to go to her when she cries and is always giving her toys and picking her up (to sitting). He spends a lot of time talking to her and playing with her.
3. He loves pretty much everyone right now and is especially thrilled when an Uncle comes over, but he gets all their names mixed up and just starts calling all of them Uncle Bin.
4. He is getting more of an accent as he gets older, which is curious because Nick has been gone a lot lately.
5. His love of diggers has not waned in the least. We now own about 219281281238 diggers and probably every digger book published in English.
6. He thinks Nick and I are 22 1/2 years old. We haven't corrected him. 

Happy half little buddy, we love to the moon and back!

Finn at Butchart Gardens in Victoria a couple of weeks ago