E started attending a toddler class at my work. I think he looks forward to seeing Teacher Corrine and playing with the other kids. Here’s a picture of him eating snack on his first day:

I occasionally get to stop and see how he’s doing. He doesn’t like it when I leave though.

I bought him a cheap backpack to take to school that was almost as big as him (as you can see in this picture)

But Grandma O bought him a Cars backpack. Before school I asked him which backpack he wanted to take and the Cars backpack won but he had to fill it with some cars first

and finally, here is a picture of E making a monster during the craft time

I can’t believe he’s big enough to go to “school”. He loves it and is learning new things every class. For example, one day E told me “I am a boy and Corrine is a girl”. I think he is getting better at interacting with peers too.

Opa built E a huge sand box. I can’t remember the dimensions but it holds one and half tons of sand

Opa, Aunt Kathlene and E had a lot of fun playing in it. They would build things and he would smash them. Sometimes with his butt. Too funny.

We took E to the Copper Mine and it wasn’t a huge success. He enjoyed looking at the dump trucks driving but we made the mistake of going into the visitors center. E got upset because he couldn’t hold the miniature toy cars behind the glass. He was crying and saying “get key. open. hold trucks”.

Maybe next year it will be better.

Here are some pictures E took with my phone

I helped a little bit (when he would let me)

We went to lunch after church and E enjoyed a free ice cream cone

When we left the restaurant a fire truck was in the parking lot. We of course had to go check it out.

Too bad there wasn’t a fire fighter to meet too.

Opa made E some wood tracks for him to drive his cars on

He loved it!

Opa even made him some tunnels for his cars that you can see in this video

and here is a video of E trying to bring the tracks back after Opa tried to put them away

Here are E’s two year pictures. It was not easy to get him to smile and LOOK at the camera.

We started with the red chair:

Then he saw a truck he wanted to hold so we tried to get a few pictures with the truck

and it made him mad because the wheels didn’t turn and it was hard to push. So the photographer tried a sucker

We got some cute ones and then this happened

It was too big for him to bite so he got upset but we were able to make him happy again

I am glad we got some cute ones and some good memories too