2 years, 3 months/5 weeks, 6 days.

Daddy supervised the filling of the pool for the season's first pool party, at Phoebe's house.  Graham impressed the other party guests (and his surprised parents) by eating a rabbit's worth of carrots and hummus.

2 years, 3 months/5 weeks, 5 days.

Graham and Noah played at the water table at Eric's house this afternoon.  Despite Graham's occasional shoves, Noah adores Graham and always wants to play with him.  Graham is at a strange stage of wanting to be with his friends and begging to see them, but then not wanting to play with them when he's at a playdate.  It's as if he knows that he could have fun playing with other kids but he just can't bring himself to share and interact with people who don't always play his games exactly as instructed (unlike, for example, his parents).

2 years, 3 months/5 weeks, 4 days.

Graham is a huge flirt.  He met a few older girls at the playground today and played duck-duck-goose with them (Graham didn't understand the rules at all) until it was time to leave for his haircut, at which point, he asked one for a kiss goodbye.  

Good-bye, beautiful strawberry blond locks!  Time for a summer cut!

Meanwhile, always along for the ride, Connor smiled smooshed up smiles in his carrier.

2 years, 3 months/5 weeks, 3 days.

Connor somehow managed to remain calm and peaceful despite the terrifying two-year-old building towers beside him (needless to say, this game came to an unfortunate end).

2 years, 3 months/5 weeks, 2 days.

Connor's schedule goes pretty much like this: sleep; wake-up; nurse; smile, coo, and squirm around very pleasantly for awhile; without warming, scream head off until rocked to sleep; rinse and repeat.

2 years, 3 months/5 weeks, 1 day.

Graham is more attached to his special blue blanket (pronounced more like "boo manket") than ever.  We're trying to explain to him that Connor's yellow blanket is his special blanket and therefore can't get sucked into the black hole of necessary items in Graham's crib (water bottle, 4 blankets, wolf tail from Halloween costume, countless stuffed animals, countless books).  So far, so good.

2 years, 3 months/4 weeks, 5 days.

Graham had an extended playdate with Bennett today while I took Connor to the doctor.  Graham was very excited about it, especially the part about taking a nap at Bennett's house.  He repeated the following over and over before heading over: "go Bennett house, eat lunch, take nap with blue blanket!"