Mr. Personality

Then there is Rane! Mr. Personality himself! Rane will be 2 1/2 next month and he is still the ham of the family. He loves attention and basks in it when he gets it! I remember when Rane was about 6-8 weeks old and we had him on the floor in the bouncy seat while the rest of us ate dinner at the table. Spencer kept looking down at Rane and then would kinda laugh and shake his head. Finally I asked him why he kept looking at Rane and his response was, "I don't know. I have just never seen a baby so, so, what is it? Charming?" I mean, the kid could charm the pants off of us at 2 months of age! He just has a way of looking at you that makes you want to fall in love! ha! While Ella-Ann may bring the drama Rane brings the party! He's always ready for a good time and no matter what, he usually has one!

Rane loves to laugh and loves to be a clown. He is always full of energy and is full of spirit. He has a great, laid back, funny, sweet and loving personality. He has always done well playing on his own and if Ella-Ann isn't around to play with he easily plays in the play room by himself.

Rane speaks really well for his age and we are able to understand him, which is nice. Spencer summed up Rane really well the other day when he said that Rane speaks like a 4 year old but thinks and acts like a 2-year-old. I have to remember that when he sticks his hands in the toilet and then tells me he did it!

Unfortunately Rane's mischievous personality also gets him into trouble...often! He is always doing something that he isn't supposed to be doing so you can usually hear me yelling, "Rane!!!" from across the room! The other day he and Ella-Ann were punished for spinning Pierson around in circles while she was sitting in her exersaucer. I was in the other room and when I came out Ella-Ann and Rane scattered. When I was talking with Rane about what he had done he had his head lowered and, looking up at me with his big eyes he simply said (in a very straight face), "Ella-Ann do it." There it was.....his first blatant lie!

Rane is also our very best eater so far. He will eat anything and everything. Last night we went to an Italian restaurant with my parents and Rane ate all the black olives out of the salad and then when he asked for more my Dad took the big, green olives out of his dirty martini and Rane ate all of those...and then some! He loves to eat and I love to watch him!

Rane still takes a solid 2-hour nap in the afternoon and sleeps well at night. He loves to play outside and I would say that his his favorite thing to do. We got a dump truck for him for Easter and he will fill it up with dirt and push it from one end of the yard to the other. He loves to play in the dirt and will sit and dig a hole for an hour. Good thing he enjoys baths! His favorite book is still "We're Going On A Bear Hunt" but second runner up would be a book he has about Bob the Builder. He drags that book everywhere and will say, "Can we fix it? YES WE CAN!"

Being that Rane has such an extroverted personality you can imagine what he is like in public. He will say hello to everyone and wave and wave at anyone that passes us by. He will even stop people in the grocery and talk to them! He is such a good little boy and we love him to pieces, as does everyone who meets him.