Daddy, Warm!

Jake was laying with Dawson the other morning and when Jake rolled over to talk to Dawson, he put his hands on Jake's face/forehead and said, "Oh daddy warm! Take temperature." and he proceeded to put his finger in his armpit! Hahah you can tell he has a mommy who is paranoid and always taking his temperature! ;)

Okie Dokie, Smokey!

Everyone knows the phrase, 'Okie Dokie, Smokey'. Well Dawson has a little stuffed animal that my parents brought back to him from Yellowstone and it is Smokey the Bear. He LOVES him! He has a little hat that comes off and Dawson always has to make sure his hat is with Smokey at all times! If we cant find Smokey's hat before bed, we have to go and find it. Haha anyways, whenever we say, "Okie dokie!", Dawson says right back, "Okie Dokie, Smokey hat!" Hahah he thinks we are talking about Smokey the Bear and his hat! ;)

A Tad Bit Embarrassing!

I hope Jake doesn't kill me for posting this, but it was HILARIOUS! Jake was making breakfast and he (tooted) haha and Dawson went over to him, sniffed his bum and ran away and said, "EEEW Stinky daddy! Bum stinky!" We rolled on the floor laughing! It was so funny!

Tummy Hurt

Dawson has had a couple of stomach bugs lately and it came with the barfs! :( So sad to see him feel so miserable! Well he got really good at pulling his shirt up and show us his cute little tummy and say, "Tummy hurt, mommy." It was so sweet just how cute he would say it!

Another thing that he learned with being sick is pretending to throw up in a bowl. Haha it is HILARIOUS and ADORABLE! He brought me a bowl and pretended to cough a few times and looked at me with squinty eyes and said, "Mommy, I 'fro up'." Hahahaha I couldn't help but laugh!!

Sleep Talking

Every night right before I head off to bed, I go in and check on Dawson. I cover him back up with his blankies, turn off his night light and sneak in a few extra goodnight kisses. The past few nights he has been sleep talking when I go in and check on him. Mostly jumble of words that I can't always understand, but tonight I understood a little bit more of he was saying... "Juice, nope." That's what he said as soon as I walked in his room. He must have really wanted some juice in his dream and I said nope! ;)

"No, No Honey"

Dawson didn't want to do something that I asked him to do, and his response was, "No, no honey. No, no sweety, hun!" Hahaha I couldn't help but smile and give him the biggest hug and kiss!! What a sweet response from a 2 year old!

Football Team and "Space Balls"

Dawson is already a sports loving guy! Jake plays on a basketball team on Monday nights and Dawson gets so excited! For the whole day he asks when we are going to daddy's "football team" (basketball team). Even when Jake is just wearing basketball shorts and a t-shirt, Dawson automatically thinks that means we are going to "football team". He is a die hard BYU fan already, too! He loves to cheer, (while rolling his arms and hands and throwing them in the air), "Gooooooo Cougars!!" Its so adorable! If Jake is wearing a BYU shirt or hat, Dawson gets so excited and points to it and says, "Cougars, BYU! RAWR!!" (He loves making the sound of a cougar! If there is a game on tv, he loves to watch it with daddy!

Dawson loves baseball, too! He calls it "spaceball". Haha its so dang cute! He got a tee and bat from my brother, Uncle Trent, for his birthday! He loves to play with it! Jake has been teaching Dawson how to hold the bat correctly and Dawson can hit the ball off of the tee pretty dang far!! He is already a pro! He can start playing tee ball next year when he turns 3, and let me tell ya, that is going to be so fun to watch! Here is a little video of Dawson hitting the baseball off the tee! He's a pro! :)

TWO!!

Dawson had a WONDERFUL birthday! Or I hope we made it wonderful for him at least! We woke up, opened presents from mommy and daddy and then went straight to IHOP for breakfast where they sang Happy Birthday to him and gave him an ice cream sundae at 9 in the morning! Haha it was cute! After that, we headed straight to The Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake. My wonderful mom (Mimi is what Dawson calls her!) gave him a year membership to this toddler heaven for his birthday! We are going to be going there LOTS! I have so much fun watching him! We spent 2 hours there and then headed to City Creek and went shopping at the Disney store. His Uncle and Aunt and cousin gave him a gift card there so we went and bought him so Toy Story figurines and Cars figurines. After that, we went home and took a nap. When Dawson woke up, we asked him what he wanted for dinner. He said, without thinking twice, "Chicken, fries and sprite!" So off to Wendy's we went for his birthday dinner! We came back home and he played and played and played some more with all of his new toys and ended with Frozen right before bed! It was a FANTASTIC day! We LOVE Dawson more than anything and we can't believe he is TWO!!

We celebrated his birthday with family the night before his actual birthday. He wanted a Woody Party, and that is exactly what he got! :) He was telling everyone that he was having a Woody birthday party! Random people at the store, his nursery leaders at church, everyone! It was so cute and fun watching him be so excited for his birthday! :) He got so many wonderful presents from family! However, he went to bed with a fever after his party that night! :( He was sick last year on his first birthday, and sick again this year for his second birthday! Poor little dude cant catch a break! Luckily his medicine kept his fever down so he was still pretty happy! :) Since this is pretty much my journal of remembering all of the wonderful things, I am going to write down what we ate at the party so I don't forget! We had shredded bbq chicken sandwiches, potato salad, potato chips, fruit, veggies and of course, cupcakes! I am so sad that I forgot to take a picture of the food table! :( But here are some pictures from the party! Enjoy!

Jake is an amazing artist and drew Woody on our chalk board for Dawson! :)

I made this fun balloon arch! 

Singing Happy Birthday to my big 2 year old!

Drink station (obviously before they were filled, lol) There was water and yellow lemonade!

Birthday banner I made for Dawson!

Cupcakes I made for the party! I put little sheriff badges on top to match the theme of Woody! 

Our little family with Grammy and Papa!

Our little family with Gramps and Jeri!

Our little family with my family! Grumpa, Mimi, Uncle Trent, Brittni and Jasper (the cute dog!)

Our little family with Jake's family! Pops, Grams, Uncles Josh and Joey!

Our little family with my Aunt Carolyn, Cousin Noelle and Travis and little baby cousin "Baby Jacket" Dawson wasn't feeling good at this point if you couldn't tell! :(

Our little family with Jake's sister's family. Uncle Ian, Aunt Jeni and cousin Tucker!

Dawson on the morning of his birthday! He just opened his presents and he put his new helmet on right away and hopped right onto his new scooter! He LOVES it! Jake and I also gave him Lets Go Fishing game. He doesn't quite get how to play, he just loves catching all of the fish with the little fishing poles! :) He got a new shirt and a little football!

Dawson waiting to get in at The Discovery Gateway!

Dawson standing in front of our height ruler showing how tall he is at 2 years old! My big boy!!

My AMAZING brother, Trent, is such a talented photographer! He of course took Dawson's 2 year photo shoot! There were over 750 photos to choose from! It was so hard to choose! Here are just a few of our favorites! Enjoy!

"I Yuv You Momma!"

Dawson has really been a mommy's boy lately and I am LOVING it! He is usually a daddy's boy, which he still is, but he has REALLY been attached to me these past few weeks and I am glowing! He comes up to me so many times during the day, hugs me tight and says, "I yuv you momma!! So much, momma!" He then backs up and gives me a kiss! It melts my heart!

Sign Language

We LOVE story time at the Herriman library. We go every single Thursday! The teacher sings "The More We Get Together" in sign language and Dawson loves it! He picked it up really fast, too! We sing it all of the time at home, I love it. Since he picked sign language up so fast, I am working on sign language with him now. Just basic stuff like eat, water, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, hungry, the alphabet, etc. I'll catch him on video singing and signing, "The More We Get Together", you will die from all of the cuteness! ;)