Dawson turns 2

Oh my goodness.  How can this little man be 2?!  He is such a joyful, fun little man to have around.  His birthday was lots of fun and he was SO excited.  For starters, when he woke up he was singing Star Wars and the ABC's in bed...so it was sure to be a good day.  Later that day when we were at the store, a nice lady that works at Smith's gave him a balloon from, then Johnny (one of our favorite checkers) wished him happy birthday over the intercom system.

Some fun facts about this 2 year old:

*He calls his belly button a "Tummy Butt."
*Calls Asher "A-ee" and absolutely adores his brothers.
*Is the sweetest and says "thank you", and "there it is" all the time.
*When asking about a stuffed panda, he called his paw-hands "Glubs."
*Loves to sing the Star Wars theme songs. This whole year, he would hum songs over and over again too.
*Also tries singing along with the Newsies soundtrack when the boys play it.  He loves the music.
*I've been asked at the store if I found him in the 'cute aisle.'
*He calls horses "neighs."
*Sings the alphabet song everywhere we go, knows his colors, some shapes, and likes to skip number 8 while counting to 10.
*He thinks the 'man with the yellow hat' is Woody from Toy Story.
*He totally hated nursery at church for a solid 4 months.
*He likes to pretend he's a puppy and then tries to like your face.
*While eating a small bowl of Cheerios recently, he looked at me and said it was "delicious."
*Helicopters = Hot potato. M&M's = homineas.
*He's very picky about which stuffed animals get to go on his bed.
*He likes to try to make small talk during meals, and loves eating watermelon, and noodles of any kind.
*He says that he has a tail. He just LOVES puppies and dinosaurs.

He was VERY excited about his cake, saying, "Cake all done!" and "Cake, cake!"  He couldn't wait to eat it (unlike last year when he at none of it, haha).  Even so, he ate more ice cream than cake!  He also loved his balloons, and jumped all over the house with them.  One of his favorite presents was his basketball hoop.  He played, "Hoops, ball hoops" until I made him finally go to bed, which he really didn't want to do.  He just wanted to play with all the new toys.  When we said prayers that night, and was saying what he was thankful for, he added cake and hoops to the list.  What a fun day for a fun boy.  Happy 2nd birthday!