Happy Birthday Dawson

Dawson is 2!!!  I can hardly believe it!!  He is growing up so very fast!  Here are some fun things about Dawson at 2 years old:

1.  Dawson loves to eat.  He will raid the pantry for snacks often.  Sometimes he knows we will tell him that it's not time for snacks, so he will sneaks snacks and go hide somewhere in the house!  We will find him snacking away with a bag of crackers or chips ("tips") in a cupboard or  closet.  He's a smart and sly little guy!!!

2.  Dawson has gone poopy in the potty 2 times now.  He sometimes will tell us he needs to be changed by saing "chu chooo" (change you) and pat his diaper and say "pyper" (diaper).  One time he did this, so I proceeded to change him and he hadn't gone yet.  So we ran to the potty and he went on the potty.  It was an exciting moment! 

3. Dawson loves his warm milk, just as all the kids have.  Kaylee always asks for "warm milk in a cup and a cap."  Dawson picked up on this phrase, and he will ask for a "bub-it-a-bup."  It's the cutest thing he says, working his tongue like a tongue twister to get all those syllabals in.  It's pretty funny.

4. Dawson sleeps in his little room in a toddler bed.  He has a baby gate that closes his room off from Jaxtons.  Actually, most nights he starts in bed but somehow wiggles his way out at night and finds a cozy place on the carpet to sleep.  He has a warm cozy carpet in his room that I think he finds more comfortable than his bed.  He has a window that looks out to our driveway and often Nate or the Simplx workers will see him waving at his window.  It's awefully cute!  

5. He loves nursery these days.  His favorite song is by far "popcorn popping" which he calls "po-kahn."  He knows all the motions to that song.  Besides that, popcorn might be at the top of the list of his favorite foods.  So no wonder his favorite song is the same!

6. Dawson loves to be outside.  He loves to ride his little bike or play in the little red car.  He used to be very cautious and careful outside.  He was afraid to walk on the back patio deck or the swing set deck because you can see through the boards to the ground and that made him very nervous and afraid of heights.  However, he got over that phase and has turned into quite the daredevil!  He will climb up the swing set super fast.  In fact, if he can figure out a way, he will climb up anything and anywhere.  Luckily he hasn't figured out a way to climb out of his room yet:).

7. His favorite show these days is Thomas the Train, curious George, or Pingu.  He definitely is a train boy.  He loves loves loves his "choo choos."

8. Dawson certainly has his own language.  He will talk all day long in his language.  Every now and again he will throw in an English word.  It is so darn cute.  He can now say just about anything you ask him to say, he will repeat the words back to you.  But he still prefers his little language.  It is super super cute.

9. Dawson loves to play with his big sister.  They will play "kitchen" a lot and will play "school" sometimes too.  They will fill their little backpacks up with toys and pretend they are going to school like the big boys. He loves to wrestle with Jaxton and Cooper.  His so strong and solid that he can pin his big brothers down.  They go easy on him and he loves that!  

10. Dawson still has such sweet innocence.  He is just a sweet hearted boy.  He is still learning what's right and wrong and what's ok to do and what's not.  So it makes him so innocent and pure.  He is so loving.  He loves to give kisses, especially his baby brother.  Sometimes he will smother Baby Nathan or put a coriander over Baby's head because he thinks it looks interesting.  But his sweet innocence is what Christ teaches us to be like.  I love my Dawsy-Boo soo soo much!! For some reason that nickname for him evolved.  We all love him so very much!!