Our baby Ephraim is a big 2 year old!!

We celebrated Ephraims 2nd birthday today and the Elders joined us for dinner.  We always like having them over and the sweet spirit they bring.  They stayed and did their laundry and played games with us today.

 Jeff and Jackie made sweet and sour chicken.  This was a first for us, a new recipe, and it turned out really yummy!

Our BIG BIRTHDAY BOY!  Ephraim has been such a delight at wonderful addition to our family.  He has a calm disposition and still loves to cuddle and dance with Mom.  He has a great laugh and will laugh at random things, and make all of us laugh.  He is a good brother to Peter and shares and gets things for him.  He loves to thow away his diaper everytime I change him, and loves to be outside.  Peter is potty trained and uses the bathroom often, every time he goes Ephraim runs in and sits on the little potty (Peter now uses the big potty).  Ephraim leaves his pants on, but sits the whole time Peter is going and then when Peter gets wipes, Ephraim insists on being wiped as well.  He bends over and waits for it.  He wants to do everything Peter does and pretty much follows him all over the house.  He is starting to learn a few words, he says "No" but it is really cute how he says it.  Not mean at all, just sweet.  He says it a lot.  He can say Mom and Dad and we just heard "help me" a few days ago, but he is using it a lot.  He gets really excited easily and will say "Yay" and jump up and down.  He loves |Zeus and tried to feed him his dog food out of his hand and will try to hold him by the collar but all Zeus wants is to play fetch, which Ephraim does to the ball just doesn't go too far but Zeus still fetches it and brings it right back to him.  Zeus has always been really gentle with Ephraim, he just likes him to death sometimes.  Ephraim is still in his crib, or playpen depending where we lay him down.  He goes down so good, most the time with pacy but if it is lost he does go down without it.  He still wears his boots and tolerates them well, sometimes he wakes up early and I take them off but sometimes he sleeps thru the night.  He rarely cries when we lay him down and he usually goes down about 8:00 and sleeps until 6:30ish.  He takes a good afternoon nap for a couple of hours.  He loves to eat and is not too picky, the only thing I have notices that he really does not like is potatoes, everything else he eats a lot of and will eat all day.  He is so fun and I love seeing his older siblings interact with him.