Officially Two Years Old

I can't believe that Trenton is two years old. The time sure flies. We had a family birthday party on his birthday, Friday the 11th. Here's some cute pics:

When he opened the stick horse he immediately rode away on it and we had to convince him to come back and open the rest of the presents.
The Lightening McQueen slippers were wrapped in a box and when Trenton unwrapped it and saw the box he got excited and said, "wow!" Apparently he thought we were giving him a box for his birthday.

Trenton loves trains and so I decided to make him a train cake for his birthday. It took me, my mom, my sister, and my sister-in-law about five hours to make this, including bake time. The only thing on it that is not edible is the Happy Birthday on the coal car and the wire holding the marshmallows out of the smokestack. It was hard watching all that hard work get eaten.

Trenton blowing out the candles. We had to sing 3 times so that he could blow out the candles. He wanted to blow them out a fourth time and we told him he could do it without us singing, so he started to sing Happy Birthday to himself before he blew them out! What a cutie!

Here are some of the things my little two-year-old is doing now:

He's really started to talk in sentences recently although this has brought quite an attitude. Some of his favorite phrases include, "stop it," "leave please," "go away," and "don't like it." He's definitely in his terrible twos, but he can be the sweetest thing too. He also likes to say, "I love you," "what happened" and " you ok?" (when someone's sad or hurt). He is a very independent boy; he wants to do everything for imself including eating, dressing and playing, but not including using the potty! Dang! He likes to say, "I wanna try," "I did it" and "good job." He learns new things everyday. I'm amazed at how much he knows. He can count to 10, name all the basic colors and shapes, and sing parts of primary songs. Trenton has a better memory than I do and loves to play memory games! He loves watching movies and loves Blue's Clues, Bob the Builder, and Barney. He's obsessed with trains, cars, motorcycles, fourwheelers, trucks and especially tractors. He loves horses and no matter the weather he has to go pet the horses at Grandma and Grandpa Vail's house. We're just so happy to have him and love to watch him grow!

Putting up the Christmas Tree

So, I'm finally posting about putting up our Christmas tree. This was Trenton's first time helping decorate. He kept putting two or three on the same branch and then got frustrated when they'd slide off. Silly kid!

Here are videos from the hotel pool in Provo and the Children's Museum in Salt Lake City from our Thanksgiving break. I think Trenton is absolutely adorable in these. I love the wind swept hair in the second one!

Thanksgiving update

I know its been a while, but I wanted to post some pictures of our trip to Utah the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. We spent the night in a hotel and Trenton got to go swimming which he loved. He screamed the whole back to the hotel room! I guess he wanted to turn into a prune. While Nyk went to the BYU vs. Utah game with his friend Orlan, I went to the Children's museum with Trenton, Corteiga and Treysen. We had a blast. I highly recommend this museum. We played for at least 4 hours and they still could have kept going.
Trenton cooking in the tiny birdhouse!
Playing in the water.

fun videos to come . . .