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This smiley lady rules our world. Time goes quickly, her smiles get bigger, and we grasp on to memories of her at 8.5 months!

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This is the face of a boy who just spelt his name correctly out loud for the first time, E - W - A - N!!

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And just like that she said, "dada!" And he was even more wrapped around her chubby little finger.

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We think Ewan read the blog and saw that we questioned if he was becoming terrible. He has been a sweet little guy this month. His most sweet moment being when he got out of bed in the middle of the night when his sissy was crying, turned on the sleepy music stuffed animal in her crib, and said, "it's ok baby sissy, no cry." All of this we heard from the door as we went to get Darby. He infuriates us for a second, and then he melts us, it's a cycle.

EP - 2 Years 10 Months

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After the craziness of Christmas we took Ewan down to Southern California to visit his Grammie and Mickey. He had a wonderful time and even though he seemed to be fighting some sort of bug he was a champion, spending 12+ hours in either Disneyland or California Adventure both days. This was Ewan's second Disneyland trip, and it was a bit different as this time Ewan was 40 inches tall.... this is a very big milestone for Disney. This time around Ewan could ride a lot of the big boy rides including Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Radiator Springs Racers, Star Tours, and more. As we traveled in to the dark for Space Mountain Mama wondered if taking a 2.75 year old on a roller coaster was a bad parenting decision, but as Ewan yelled, "I go again, I go again with Daddy," as the ride ended it seemed to be ok. On our first night in Anaheim we went by the Disney Store and got Ewan the Buzz hoody pictured this week, he refused to take it off and when annoyed shot us with his arm laser, it actually makes a sound effect (and thankfully survived its first washing).

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After our Christmas celebration wrapped up we headed down to Southern California for a few days. Darby took her first flight (SFO to LAX), visited her Grammie's house in Camarillo, met her Great Grammie and Great Roy, went to Disneyland and California Adventure, and explored LACMA and the La Brea Tar Pits. She was an amazing traveler, loved the visual excitement of all that we explored, and once again proved that she is a champ of a baby. For Darby's first day at Disney she was dressed in all of her Minnie gear, including a great skirt from her Grammie, which is seen in this week's photo. On her second day she wore a simple lavender Juicy sweatsuit as she did not want to do the polkadots better than Minnie when they met at breakfast, that would just be embarrassing for Minnie.

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Oh Santa, you were so so so good to our sweet boy. Ewan and his co-pilot had a glorious time driving around the neighborhood early Christmas morning. The only gift that came close to his Boss 302 Mustang was his Sheriff Woody doll, which Darby got him. Taking Ewan shopping for his sister was probably one of the best parts of holiday preparations, he is very in to rainbows (always singing a song about the rainbow) these days, and he picked a big pink CareBear for her, Cheer Bear to be specific, which has a rainbow across her belly and a pink heart nose, and when Darby opened it they were both so excited.