The Life and Times of an Illustrious Family: 2 Happens

I'm stealing the title of this blog from what's printed on a t-shirt we bought for Kian as one of his second birthday presents. We've developed a bit of a tradition, ordering the boys cutely-sloganed shirts memorializing their birthdays, and Kian's, this year, says "2 Happens."

So, our baby turned 2 today (or, at the time I'm writing this, technically, yesterday). We're learning more and more just what a different - but, of course tremendously special and amazing - person Kian is from his brother. Jack is generally pretty easy-going, follows direction and discipline pretty well. Kian can be a bit more hard-headed and driven about the things he wants to do, even when he fully recognizes mom or dad do not approve. Quite honestly, we sometimes wonder if the boy has a compliant bone in his body. He's also much more of a mama's boy than Jack's proven to be. Kian has to know where Laura is most any moment she's not in his immediate field of vision.

None of these are bad things, at all, simply nuances of his personality we're still learning to manage and understand. He's definitely his own little person, and he's just as thrilling and exciting a person to be around as Jack is. We've been so unbelievably fortunate to parent these amazing, articulate, and intelligent children; and, Kian reinforces those fortunes with every minute he graces us with his presence.