Happy Birthday Daniel

 Today is Daniel's birthday. We are so excited to have a 2 year old in the house. He is so fun! For his birthday I made him this quiet book. It was so fun. I spent too much time on it, but I really enjoyed it and Daniel loves it too. He spent all of Sacrament Meeting playing with it today.

 

Tic-Tac-Toe

Number Train- This is after Daniel played with it. I do know how to count.

One of Daniel's favorite songs is called Slippery Fish. It has a fish, octopus, tuna fish, great white shark, and humongous whale in it. So this page has each of those and a net to keep them in.

A counting page and a Rocket page. The rocket ship flies to the moon.

A toolbox with tools inside and a snowman with a wardrobe of things to put on it.

A dinosaur land and a cave that the dinosaurs live in when they are not being played with.

Car page. The cars are lightning McQueen and Mater and what is supposed to be a lime green Dodge Charger (but it doesn't look like one).

And then killer whales. Daniel loves them.

We had a pool party yesterday for him. He loved it. Here is his cupcake.

We got chocolate milk for Daniel for his birthday this morning. He loved it!

Daniel got these pool toys from Grandpa and Grandma Hill for his birthday. He loves them. He won't let them out of sight. We took them to the pool with us yesterday, he played with them all day and then took a bath with them. He even took one to church with us today. And the one he took still had water in it (they squirt water) so Tyler got a surprise while he was sitting in the chapel. It's a good thing Tyler loves water.

A couple videos

Here is Daniel showing the paper that he wanted for a letter.

Daniel has learned to climb and jump a lot! Luckily he also has a bean bag chair that he likes to jump into.

Sleeping Bunnies

One of Daniel's favorite songs is sleeping bunnies. He is learning how to hop and loves to do this with me. Every once in a while, if he is tired, he lays down during the sleeping bunnies part, and then he just keeps laying there. He doesn't ever jump during the jumping part. That is when I know it is time for his nap!

Baby Book

This week I found the fabric scraps that I bought when Daniel was a couple months old to make a fabric book. I just wanted something that had different textures. So I finally decided to make it. It was really fun to have a craft that I could make in just a couple hours. It is not completely done, but close enough that Tyler has already started to play with it. I just need to put a nice piece of fabric on for the binding. It was fun to make.

I put a plastic bag in this page so it crinkles when you touch it.

This back feels like a tablecloth and can be easily washed.

Tyler playing with his book.

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So yesterday we took a picture of Tyler that matched a picture of Daniel that we took when he was about 3 months old. When Tyler was born I thought that he and Daniel did not look at all alike. And now they look very similar. I love my cute boys!

Daniel Oct 2012

Tyler Mar 2014

Daniel's duck

Here is a little video of Daniel.

Christmas/baby blessing

We had a wonderful Christmas break. The University of Texas started classes again last Monday. During the break we were able to go down to Houston and visit Josh's grandma and some friends. Then we headed over to Albuquerque NM and spent time with Jeff and Jenny. Aaron and Jenny and Abby and James and their families also came for Christmas. We had a blast. Daniel loved playing with everyone! He also loved his Christmas presents. His favorite present by far was a little basketball hoop. He loves basketball. This was his reaction to getting the basketball hoop. He was so sad and immediately became excited when he saw the hoop.

Because all of my family was in town, we decided to bless baby Tyler in Albuquerque. Dad flew down and joined us for the occasion. It was a wonderful blessing. Here a couple pictures. Tyler seemed to love the photo shoot.

Another funny thing is that Tyler and Jared (Jeff and Jenny's baby) seem to have a lot of matching outfits. When we got there, Jared and Tyler happened to be wearing matching pajamas. Then they both had the same Christmas outfit except that Tyler's was green and Jared's was red. Here is a picture of them.