Our Big 2-Year Old

Scott and I are having a hard time believing that Dawson is already two years old. It seems like we celebrated his first birthday just last month. Time sure does fly when you have a child...
We took Dawson and Ander to Chuck E. Cheese on Friday and let them play around for awhile. Both of them are still scared to get on most of the rides there, so we didn't stay too long.
Dawson spent most of his time in the tubes at Chuck E. Cheese

Get me off this thing!!

Dawson and Daddy riding on the truck at C.E.C.

Saturday was Dawson's actual birthday so we had a family party for him and my mom that night, since my mom's birthday was on Friday. We bought Dawson a Jump 'N Slide Bouncer and set it up in our backyard for the kids to jump on while we the rest of us ate ice cream cake from Cold Stone. Dawson absolutely loved the bouncer and jumped on it the whole time my family was there, in between eating cake and playing with the sand in his new sandbox. He was ready to collapse from exhaustion when it was time for bed from all of the fun he had.
Happy Birthday to my sweet little guy! I love you!!


The Jump 'N Slide Bouncer

Dawson doing a somersult while Ander takes a break


Leslie, Dawson, Adam and Ariel

Grandma & Grandpa Aubrey

Cake batter ice cream + red velvet cake + brownies + cookie dough = Scrumptious!

Chuck entertaining the boys

The new sandbox

Our little sandbox-head

Happy Mother's Day!

This was my second official Mother's Day as a mother, and it was an amazing day. After coming down to the kitchen after I woke up, I found that Scott had given me two dozen roses, a gift certificate to the Brick House, and a really cute card. Scott took Dawson and me to Market Street for a yummy brunch and then we took a walk on the Draper Parkway to burn off some of the calories we'd just consumed.
During Sacrament meeting, Dawson decided to entertain everyone by running up to the pulpit area, running around the back of it and then sprinting out the other side and up the aisle. When I came to pick him up from Nursery, he was fast asleep on the floor, poor kid.
After church we had a tasty dinner at my parents' house, and I got to wish my Mom a happy Mother's Day. I'm so lucky to have such a thoughtful and loving mom and I want her to know that. She's such a wonderful example and I hope I can be half as great a mother as she's been to me.
Happy Mother's Day to all of the rest of the moms out there! Hope your day was as good as mine.

The Dawsonese Language

Since Dawson is just a week and a half away from being two, I thought this would be a good time for me to write down some of the things he's saying right now and the funny way he pronounces them (before I forget them):

Zeus: Zoo
Suzi: Sa-Sa
Ander: Amma
Robyn: Wobyn
Ernie: Uh-nee
Bert: Buht
gym: dum
work: wurt
time-out: tine-ow
vacuum: vat-yoom
walk: wot
outside: ow-sigh
cracker: dacter
dinner: danna
banana - bonna
snack - nak
Yogos - Ogos
hello - hawwo
good night - nigh-nigh
Grandpa - Poppa
park - part
slide - swy

He can speak in short sentences now and says things like "I want nak (snack)", "Zoo in room in tine-ow (time-out)", "Amma come over", "One-two-free", "Dada at wurt" and "Dada go poopoo". Don't ask me where he picked up that last one!
Also, for those of you who remember my blog entry a few months ago where Dawson told me his name was Amy, I figured out a short time later that Amy is actually Ander. Ever since then, whenever I've asked Dawson what his name is, he says "Amma" every single time. When I say "No, it's Dawson", he'll yell "Amma" over and over. I wonder when he'll grow out of his identity crisis?
I really love him at this age even though he's got way too many Energizer batteries in his system sometimes. It's so fun to hear him talk and be able to communicate with him, even if it's not always easy to understand what he's saying. He's always doing something to make me laugh, and I love being able to hang out with him every day.