Happy 2nd birthday!

I had such a fun birthday-it was pretty different than a normal day b/c our house had no power for 2 days, including the day of my fire station party! We stayed at a friend's house, and I got to wake up on my birthday there, and eat donuts. Finally, our power came on about 3 hours before the party and my mommy cried with relief! Our house was 55 when the power finally came on.

The party was so fun and I think everyone loved the fire station as much as me, even if I was a little scared to get on the fire truck. They did the sirens and blew the horns, and let us pretend to drive. They are such heroes!

"No" man!!!!

I love "No" men (snowmen)! I got to build my first one this season with my daddy and boy did we have fun! My daddy might have been more excited than me! He even made me do a snow angel. How fun that Dallas got 6 inches of snow! My mommy said I've seen more snow in my little life than she has in hers.

Here are pictures of our house and street, as well as our sweet neighbors tree that fell down from the snowstorm! Our winter wonderland was so pretty, but my mommy wasn't sad to see it go!

My favorite things at 2 years old

1. making mommy and daddy "seat" in the Thomas tunnel with me

2. Shasham (Thomas the train), Salty, Duncan and Smudger and their train track

3. playing with any ball

4. Sesame Street puppets or anything related to Sesame Street (the only characters I call by name are Elmo, Zoe, Bert, Ernie, and all the others I have distinct sounds for-Oscar is "rar rar", Cookie Monster is "num num", Big Bird is the chirping sound of a bird, Grover is ha ha-again Emily, is this ok and normal:)?

5. he loves to watch "shows"-some favorites are Dora (Dada), Chugginton (choo choo wain), Boz, Letter Factory (BBB), Mickey Mouse (Mittey), Sesame Street, Veggie Tales (Bible)

6. reading-Little Engine that Could, Courderoy books, anything Thomas or Sesame Street, Pooh, Bible

7. "Elwee"-my girlfriend and bestest friend Elle

8. Building tall towers with blocks (he calls them Bible towers)

9. Counting to 10, and saying the alphabet sounds and telling us the letters he sees, especially the "w"

10. dancing and listening to music, or playing music with daddy-especially piano and drums

My 2nd birthday is this weekend!

Here I am getting ready for my fun birthday party at the fire station this coming weekend! I love fire trucks and their sirens, and I get to go visit the real deal! Happy 2nd birthday to me!

Here comes Charlie-another Andrew Slaton photoshoot!

My little brother Chahhh-ley is coming so soon! 3 weeks from yesterday to be exact, and I am so ready to see him, and kiss him, and especially teach him about trains! I hope he loves them like I do. My mommy and daddy think I will be a good big brother and love Charlie so much! It's so fun that we will have such close birthdays.

Talented uncle Andrew

PHOTOSHOOT 2010: My uncle Andrew is such a good photographer but sadly, I am not a great subject. I was very unhappy in most of the pictures from this shoot, but he still caught me smiling in a few. That's how good he is.

Christmas 2009

Wow, this year was so much fun! I am very into choo choo's as I call them, especially Shasham (my way of saying "Thomas", the train-as my speech therapist friend Em, should I be worried?:)), and I got to go see a real one in this man's backyard in Richardson. We went about 3 times this season and ride the choo choo, and it made me fall even more in love with choo choos and Shasam, and his friends that I own, Salty, Duncan and Smudger. I even bring them all with me to bed every night and nap time! Thank you again Pops and Grammy for that!

I also got to go see Santa this year and didn't exactly like him or the idea of a picture with him. So, mommy got to be in the picture and I never smiled for any of the pics! Even though I "got" Christmas this year more than last year, I was still confused about this Santa guy and Jesus and their difference. My mommy mentioned both often, so I would say Bible whether my mom mentioned Santa or Jesus. I still actually call Jesus a baby b/c I don't get that He ever grew up. We will work on it:) Either way, a great and eventful Christmas season!

We got to go visit my cousins Ees, Sammers and Odrew (Elise, Sam, and Andrew) in Austin and had so much fun. I love my cousins and any time I get with them. they have such a fun house and are such fun people!

My favorite Christmas gifts this year were my retro rocket as you can see above, my choo choos and track, my Thomas tunnel/tent, his Dallas cowboys figures, and airplane/airport. I am pretty easy to please, and love my toys!

Happy Halloween!!!

This was a super fun year for Halloween b/c I actually had opinions about what I wanted to be! I love "shavoys", as I call Cowboys, right now. I loved my attached horsie and especially my Shavoy hat that Pops and Grammy gave me. They had no idea how much use I'd get out of it!

I also got to go visit some older people at a retirement home for Halloween. We all dressed up and brought fun treats to the old people, and they loved us! Who wouldn't?

I also go to see all my Square 1 friends (the friends I have know since I was 3 weeks old), and I went to Northwest Bible's fun festival and played all sorts of games. This was also my fist year trick or treating, and alhough I didn't quite get it, I just followed my older friend Rory to each doorstep, and then mom ate all my candy:) I love my life!