David & Parker

David's cousin, Parker, came to visit for David's birthday.

They had fun playing outside on the swingset, playing in the pool, taking a bath and readin books.

David's 2nd Birthday - a little late

David had a Lightning McQueen themed 2nd Birthday Party on June 13. He loves Lightning McQueen and I found some really good deals on party decorations so McQueen and his pals were everywhere at our house. Here's his birthday cake (which I made.) His friends Michael, Caleb, Wes, & cousin Parker came to the party along with their parents and David's Grandpa & Grandma from Florida. He had a great time playing with his friends and got a lot of great presents.

He blew out the candle on his cake in one blow. We were pretty impressed. We gave him a cupcake with white frosting to eat, because I was not too sure about how he would do with red frosting (since it stains.) He really enjoyed wiping the frosting off with his finger and then licking his finger. He did finally eat some of the cupcake.

After opening presents and eating cake David, Parker & Michael played outside on the swingset (and the new ladder Daddy & Grandpa built for it.) David also enjoyed his new book (over & over & over again), his Mack truck from G.G. and his Cars racetrack.

David and Friends

David's friend, Caleb, came over to play a couple weeks ago. Caleb had a shirt that David also had so I dressed them alike and tried to take some pictures. I think it is impossible to get two 2 year olds to sit still long enough for anyone to take a picture. (David is on the left in both pictures.)

Here is David swinging on his new swings with his friend Michael.


And playing on his slide/climber thing with Michael. They had a great time.

We had our roof redone last week. David did amazingly well sleeping through the pounding for 2 1/2 days. We were kind of stuck inside the house since the roofers kept throwing shingles & other things down and there were loose nails all over the yard. We are still collecting loose nails, but hopefully we got most of them.

Here is David trying to be like the roofers. He was pretending to fix the "roof" on the box. It was pretty cute.

Big Boy Bed

We moved David to a big boy bed a couple weeks ago. (Cars themed of course to match his room. I got it on craigslist for $20 with a mattress & sold the mattress for $15 since we already had a mattress. So net cost $5!!) The first 2 weeks were really rough once he realized he could get out of bed anytime he wanted to. He has gotten much better at staying in bed, but we still have a rough nap time or bed time every couple days.

David doesn't really have a favorite blanket or stuffed animal. He likes to sleep with his small hard metal and plastic cars. The other night we put him to bed and out of the 12 cars he sleeps with, he realized which 2 were missing and named them by name. Luckily we found them relatively quickly. If he doesn't stay in bed, though, he loses his cars. I think this is the most severe punishment for him. He is so attached to his cars.

He also rarely goes to sleep without his Cars slippers. I really think he has some OCD tendencies. Now when we put him to bed he says "Stay in bed & don't get out." If only he would also obey it every time.

Golf

David likes golf. Lanny is thrilled. Here are some pictures of him playing in the front yard from May.

David drives the firetruck

Saturday we went to a church fun day. They had a small petting zoo, a magician, a bounce house and a few more other fun things. Best of all for David, they had a firetruck...and the firemen let David "drive" the firetruck. He has been talking about it ever since. He had such a good time. I will try to post some more pictures tomorrow.

Catching up

Sorry I have not updated this in awhile. Our computer was down for quite awhile and we have been busy keeping up with life. I will try to catch up in order.

Here is David "helping" Lanny work in the front yard.

For Easter we took David to our friend's church for their Easter egg hunt. David did a great job (better than we expected) of picking up eggs and putting them in his bucket.

Here he is listening to the instructions... picking up eggs...

and just being cute. :)

David and Cameron running around the tree.

We went to South Carolina for Lanny's cousin Chris & Allison's wedding in April. David and his cousin Madi watched Cars on our portable DVD player during the rehearsal. Lanny performed the ceremony (his first) and did a great job.

The day after the wedding we took David to the hotel pool with his cousins. They had the best time.

These pictures were taken in our front yard this week. Here is David with 2 of his favorite cars (Lightning McQueen and Chick Hicks from the movie Cars.) (Sorry the picture is sideways.)

David wanted to pose by the tree. He likes to have his picture taken now.

David is learning so many new words each day. He loves the Disney movie Cars and anything to do with it. We are working on planning his 2nd birthday party (with a Cars theme of course) for next month. I can't believe he is almost 2!! He is growing up so fast. He knows his ABC's very well and can count to 10 (although sometimes he skips 6 and 7.)