My little boy turnes 2 today!

This here is Joey. He turns 2 years old today. Jennifer swears that it took a lot longer for Jackson to turn 2 than it did for Joseph, but I sometimes think the whole five years of us having kids has flown by. Though sometimes I think it feels exactly like five years.

Modest Mouse has a lyric: The years go fast, but the days go so slow.

Joseph is so very different than his brother in a lot of ways, but almost exactly the same in others. Joe is friggin' fearless for one thing. He'll jump off of things, run right up to wild animals, eat anything we put in front of him, and I think Jennifer just signed him up for bungee-jumping. He's a lot more rough and tumble. more active, and really really funny. He cracks everybody up including himself.

He also likes to hit things with other things. Anything you hand him, he will take and hit something with it. He talks non-stop. He is stone-cold crazy.

The past two years in the Powers house have seen a lot of fun, a lot of moving, a lot of hardship, and a lot of awesomeness. Through it all, Joseph has remained a smart, funny, happy little kid, and I'm totally glad he's around.

Happy Birthday, buddy.

I love you.

-Dad.