My cousin Paige and I had our boys about two weeks apart, so we decided to throw a combined birthday party for them.  The theme was Chugga Chugga Two Two! and when Beckham woke up from his nap to find the house and backyard decorated, complete with a bounce house, he was ecstatic! 

Beckham with half a dozen train tattoos from his birthday party

Two-year-old Beckham is a HOOT. Some funny things at this age:

• He likes to make sure the cats get timeout like he does.  If they get on the table, which is something that he does that merits a time-out, then he shouts, "UH-OH! Me-mout!" which is his pronunciation of time-out. 
• He loves vehicles.  At least once a day I'll hear him say, "Beep beep, vroom vroom!" 
• He loves singing and can frequently be heard singing nursery rhymes to himself. 
• He is figuring out his speech sounds, and for some reason right now he uses a lot of non-English guttural sounds. When he was younger, he "fronted" everything (e.g. K turned to T), and then this evolved into his backing everything (e.g. T turned to K) and then it evolved into the guttural sound, most commonly for the T in the word train.  It reminds me of the German CH sound.  Beckham also currently has a frontal lisp (he sticks his tongue out for S and similar sounds). As for his language, his vocabulary has EXPLODED in the last little while.  Sometimes, though, he will just be so cutely and confidently wrong about a word.  For example, Beckham saw a picture of a coconut and shouted, "Bumble bee!" Can you tell I'm a speech therapist who is quite intrigued by my child's speech and language development? 
• If I am ever or crouching sitting on the ground, he suddenly ambushes me with, "Monkey monkey!" and jumps on my back. He loves horse-playing with Dallin, too; I just have to be extra cautious with Beckham because he does not always understand the concept of a baby in my tummy. 

Beckham blowing out Dallin's birthday candles