Jace and his Terrible Twos

Jace. Jace at this time is a contradiction. What do I mean by this statement? Well Jace is either super cute and sweet, or he is throwing some sort of tantrum and acting on impulse as 2 year olds do.

We have found that Jace, like Sage, is Very Very smart. He has almost memorized all his ABCs and speaks very well for his age. His vocabulary is getting larger and larger and he says the cutest things using his newly learned language. He always says "please" and "thank you" and I even heard a "bless you" from the other room when I sneezed the other day. I am very thankful for the fact that Jace can speak well because during the period where he was still learning to talk he would get so frustrated at us when we did not understand him.

           Not only does Jace speak well, he also loves to make a sound effect for everything! Cars, motorcycles, walking, moving his arms... it does not matter. Everything has an animated sound. And as he voices out these sounds they are usually paired with some sort of super hero pose. He even runs while puffing out his chest in the most manly way possible while declaring to the world, "I have the power!"

Jace really can be a lot of fun. But he comes with a fair amount of challenges. Firstly, he has turned out to be even more stubborn than Curtis if that is at all possible. If you ask him to do something he does not want to do, he will challenge you every time. "Jace eat your food." in which he responded today, "No I will not eat my food. I will spit it out. I want cake." Of course in the end, Mom will win and Jace WILL eat his food, but the constant battle is tiring at times. Jace is also still figuring out how to get along with a one year old brother. Little Ryker will want to take a toy away from Jace and Jace being a two year old will react in a negative way by either pushing Ryker or yelling at him. I have however been seeing progress as Jace is actually trying to be patient. But patience comes slowly. Especially to a little boy like Jace.

Jace is growing up fast. He wants to play with the "big" kids and is trying to be more and more independent (not that he was dependent before ha ha). He is also quite the ladies man somehow managing to recruit all the teenage girls on the street to play with him.  And they will follow him around when he says, "come on guys." Why? I am not sure. Maybe its his smile, or maybe its his strong personality. Either way I'm going to have to watch that kid closely as he grows up.