Brighton is 2!!!!!

Today is Brighton's 2nd birthday. I cannot believe it has been two years already, it has gone by so fast. He is such an amazing little boy and we are so blessed that he is ours. He talks like an adult, we are constantly getting comments from strangers who are amazed at how well he talks. One lady told us that he enunciates better than she does! :) His vocabulary is huge and I am so grateful that he comprehends things so well. I rarely have to explain words to him, he hears them used and then can use them in the correct context himself. He's getting pretty good at counting, but for some reason always skips 3 when he's counting in English. He usually will count, "1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11", and then it gets a bit random - sometimes 19 and 20 come next to be followed by 12 and 13! He will count to 3 in Chinese and the other day counted to 5 in Spanish.
Right now Brighton's favorite things are reading books, playing in the fountains and balls at Silver Dollar City and his sprinkler at home, and watching Handy Manny. He is an absolutely wonderful big brother to Rigley. He gets right in Rigley's face and smiles and says, "He likes me!" Sometimes he makes it all through the night in his big boy bed, but most often we hear a little pitter patter across the floor in the middle of the night and he is at our bedside. We pick him up and put him in between us and he's back to sleep. He has still never had a hair cut, though his curls are starting to get a bit wild and we might have to get them trimmed before long.

Here he is waking up on his birthday Mimi sent a balloon bouquet with a Handy Manny and tools action figure
Celebrating at home (picture taken at 5:39pm - the time he was born)
Blowing out his candle

Opening his presents from Daddy, Mommy, and Rigley
Riding his new Diego bike down the hallwaySince it looked like it could rain anytime, we scrapped our plans for the zoo and headed to Chick-Fil-A for dinner and fun at the indoor playgroundBrighton had gotten a gift card from Toys'R'Us , so we went there after dinner and he picked out a new soccer ball.