Travis

I am getting into this blogging thing and I thought that Travis deserved a post all about him, since so much is about Justin these days. I was chastised today for having pictures taken of Justin, and not Travis. So I will have to get on that too. But until then, here's some fun facts about Travis:

He is in his jumping phase. He jumps from one place to another just about as often as he walks (or runs). And anything he can jump off is very cool too. He has a stool that he uses for everything (sitting at the coffee table to watch TV, standing to climb onto his rocking horse, etc.) and it is a frequent launching spot.

He is into tools and fixing things. His tool bench is one of his very favorite toys and he "pounds loud" often during the day. He says, "Justin awake, pound loud!" Translation: When Justin is awake I can pound loud! And he does. Here's Travis fixing his grocery cart:

(Notice the use of the stool in fixing his grocery cart!)

Travis enjoys his spray bottle. He likes "cleaning" (wetting things with the water bottle and leaving it for me to dry.) This is how he cleaned the dumpster. He just got a new bottle because his old one broke, and it only took a few hours for him to get a time out because he sprayed where he wasn't supposed to. Here is what he looks like in time out. We didn't tell him that he has to stand on his tip toes, but he does it every time!

He does so well with time outs now, we'll see how long it lasts! He now puts his toys in time out, and I got a time out for not getting to the car quickly enough after church this past Sunday.

Travis LOVES being outside. He lives for Saturday when he can help Daddy mow the lawn, but he doesn't like the trimmer and the blower; they're "too loud". He goes in and out when Randy does the loud things. Today he spent most of the day outside, and when I sent him in to take a bath he was FILTHY. He started sniffling and tried to go back outside, and said that he would take a bath later.

His favorite songs are "Jericho" and "Zaccheus". And we sing them LOTS during the day, and they are on repeat in the car. He can sing them very well too. I love that he sings church songs. He sings the alphabet song and he knows the letters "D" for Daddy, "M" for Mommy, "T" for Travis, and "J" for Justin. Now we need friends with names that begin with every other letter of the alphabet and we'd be golden!

He is "Two, not three." Not sure how that started.

Every day is his birthday, so he can get cake. He doesn't get cake every day, but somehow he thinks that if he says he gets cake, he will.

He uses the little vacuum cleaner to clean up the kitty litter in the bathroom. It's his regular job every day when I am getting ready in the morning. He does really well, and then he likes to dump it out in he trash.

McDonald's is "Uncle Donald's House" and Jason's Deli is "Uncle Jason's". And when we go to the doctor he says we are going to the doctor's "house". We are working on the difference between an "office" and a "house".

He is a GREAT big brother. He always wants to sit by, talk to, and play with Justin.

And here's a few pictures of what Travis has been up to lately:

Dressed to play in the snow in Wisconsin

Cleaning the brick wall of our house while we were washing car

Travis will eat strawberries if he can cut then with his own knife

Taking his turn doing "Tummy Time"

Cooking with Nana