2 years and 3 months

With two kids we do watch more tv, and Neil has been sick this month so when he was home from daycare we watched a movie a day just to try to keep him settled on the couch. He still loves Mickey Mouse and seems to like Peter Pan the best out of movies. We're getting to the point that he repeats things; Mickey Mouse episodes, movies, and books as well. We have 2 different Mickey Mouse DVDs (don't have On Demand anymore which switches up the episodes) and he has his favorite on each DVD.

You can't really see in the picture but he put the smaller egg of the same color in the bigger egg (so blue with blue).

Just looking at the kids in daycare, I'd say he might be slightly behind (but overall not behind because I think sometimes daycare pushes this on the kids, not saying it's a bad thing). I think he's behind on identify letters but he is way ahead on music. He will randomly sing songs that I don't even realize he paid a ton of attention to and knows all the lyrics. He definitely knows more lyrics than I do! And he sings all the time. When outside playing, while walking around, along to the CDs in the car, just sitting in a chair, etc., etc.

We are still dealing with major temper tantrums and not listening. Honestly at this point we are not giving chances as much. We tell him something, he doesn't listen, and we take action. If it's doing something that might damage something we take it away. If we've given him a choice he doesn't like (you can do this or go to bed now) then if he keeps resisting we do the 2nd action/option we gave him. It gives him a "choice" but isn't really because we know he doesn't want to go to bed. I can't think of a good example of the first option right now.

Now that the weather is warming up and Neil is older, and I'm not hugely pregnant, we are getting out more, especially outside. It's awesome and Neil loves it too. He also goes outside a lot more at daycare and ends up with sand in his shoes most days. But he's much happier.

Sleep wise, we are having issues. Since Nathan was born Neil is not sleeping as much. He used to sleep 7:30pm to 7:00am and often now gets up at 5:30am. So we moved his bedtime up so he goes to sleep at 7:00pm, and we also bought an Okay to Wake clock, which turns green when we set it and that's when he is allowed to get up. So far it's not working. He gets up anyways and one of us (usually Dave since I have a baby I'm nursing all night) takes him back and says to stay in bed and rest his eyes until it turns green. It IS getting better but he still takes 1-2 returns to bed until he stays put waiting for the clock to turn green. His naps are also shorter, at least at home. Where they used to be 3 hours pretty solidly, they're more like 1 hour. I'd say this is all okay but he acts tired so we know he does need more sleep. I'm blaming this on a lot of the temperment issues and tantrums.

As far as eating, I'm starting to just put whatever on his plate and what he eats, he eats. What he doesn't, is left there. He doesn't get more and he gets what we are eating. I make sure he has some things he will definitely eat so we know he isn't starving. We also know at daycare he is getting a solid meal and he usually eats most or all of that, and several snacks during the day. I do give him a vitamin if he didn't seem to get a lot of fruits or vegetables for the day.

Potty training hasn't progressed but we haven't been pushing it. They do let him sit at daycare but he doesn't go- usually it's when they change his diaper so I figure he doesn't have anything left. He does also ask to sit at home and does go but again it's just not consistent. I'm not really ready yet to tackle this one. Honestly we already have one in diapers; another one isn't a huge deal to me, especially since he goes less often etc. And once he's potty trained I'm dreading having to stop the car immediately to find a place for him to go to the bathroom. Is this normal?

Stats:
Clothing: We are in 2T except for pants and I think we need to move to 2T for pants. Pants are either too short (18 month) or too big (2T), so which is worse? Too short or falling down? I need to go through his 2Ts and find out if any are tighter but haven't gotten to that yet.
Diapers: We just moved to size 5. 4 still fit but we wanted to move up.
Shoes: Size 7
Weight: 28.5 pounds on my home scale
Height: I haven't tried to measure this since we moved.