My baby is 2!!

Bennett turned 2 November 3rd. I feel like he was just born and here he is now 2.

Then:

 Now:

These past 2 years have gone by WAY to fast!! He is so much fun I am so grateful that he is my son. He is adventurous, and smart, and witty, and so very sweet, any time I yell out "ouch" he says to me "whats wrong mommy? What did you step on?" and if I'm ever crying which doesn't happen often only like once a day :) j/k anyway when I do cry he runs up to me rubs my back and says "whats wrong mommy, What you need" He is so loving and I appreciate him so much!! . He loves to "nuggle". Every night and naptime he will always ask "Mommy will you nuggle me?" It is so hard to say no to his sweet little voice. He also loves to give "slobbery kisses" to his brothers. Every night he wants to get up on their bed and tackle them and say "slobbery kisses"and try to kiss them as they scream "NOOO, Benne get off" haha he thinks it's so funny. He also loves to sing and Shake his booty. His favorite song to sing and dance to is 22 by Taylor Sift its so cute to hear him sing along and dance. Here are a few of his favorite things. I asked him the question but... you know... he's 2 so I filled in what he couldn't tell me :)

1. What is your favorite color? Orange

2. What is your favorite toy? "miter mee" Mister Smee action figure

3. What is your favorite fruit? blueberries even when frozen

4. What is your favorite tv show? Justin Time

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? ham, cheese, crackers

6. What is your favorite outfit? (mommy's fav) Shirt that says "I am definitely up to something"

7. What is your favorite game? puzzles

8. What is your favorite snack? Cucumbers

9. What is your favorite animal? Lion 

10. What is your favorite song? 22 by: Taylor Swift

11. What is your favorite book? Boogie Monster

12. Who is your best friend? Mommy and Daddy

13. What is your favorite cereal? "Daddy's cereal" (Raisin Bran crunch) and oatmeal with frozen blueberries

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride on Daddy's Bike, and Jump on the trampoline

15. What is your favorite drink? Juice

16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? "all my stuff" Zingo, my blankie and my other blankie and lion 

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? what ever my brothers want to eat

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Pizza

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Daddy

Oh I just LOVE tis kid so much!!

We had a small birthday party with a few kids from church. We had a good time. I think I forgot how simple you have to make 2 year old birthday parties because some of the games I planned were a little hard for them oops. it was still fun though.

We had a Monsters University Theme Birthday party. We got him the movie for his birthday and good thing he liked it because I had already planned his whole party! 

The Mike and Sully Birthday banner

GAMES:

Drop the Monster eyeball in the cup

Find Mike and Sully

We also played "don't drop the Monsters eye" With a pingpong ball on a spoon

and

Build your own monster I'm a little upset that I forgot to take pictures of all of the monsters because I spent hours on them, Each kid got to build a felt monster and take it home with them. Didn't work out to well they weren't very excited about it. Oh well you live and learn right. 

Bennett's Build a monster

Cup Cake Time:

Singing to benne

One Happy boy!!

Presents:

Decorations:

 Pictures from his actual birthday:

Not to happy about me taking his picture

Monster cookies

Tricycle from Grandma

FIVE!!

I have a five year old......... weird!!!!

Here he is 5 years ago the day he was born

And here he is now. Such a handsome little boy!

Here are a few questions I asked Krew

1. What is your favorite color? Light Blue

2. What is your favorite toy? Batman, Superman and Lizard guy action figures

3. What is your favorite fruit? Grapes

4. What is your favorite tv show? Power Rangers

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? PBJ's

6. What is your favorite outfit? Soccer ball shirt

7. What is your favorite game? UP video game

8. What is your favorite snack? Apples

9. What is your favorite animal? Panda

10. What is your favorite song? Families can be together forever

11. What is your favorite book? The Monster who ate my peas

12. Who is your best friend? Big Jaxon Zolinger , and Michele Curtis

13. What is your favorite cereal? Golden Grahams

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride Bikes, and Jump on the trampoline

15. What is your favorite drink? Chocolate milk

16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas, because we celebrate Jesus' birthday and I get new toys and a toothbrush

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Floppy dog, pogo and turtle blanket

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Pancakes

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Pizza or Hamburgers

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Car racer

Krew is his dad! He is smart, funny, outgoing, social, logical, knows how to get what he wants, and LOVES video games!!
we had a mario birthday party for him the day before his birthday and we had a blast!!! 

Here are the decorations! It was so fun planning this party!

Pixilated Mario

Mario hats and princess peach crowns

Gumba

Boo

Mushroom cupcakes

GAMES:
Playing mario bro and Mario cart

Smash the Gumbas

Dodge the ghosts

I am so grateful for my krewser! He is so helpful and so sweet to me, not saying we don't have our moments, krew is very stubborn and knows what he wants and will FIGHT me for it. His stubbornness is a very good for him too. When he tries things he will keep trying until he gets it right. And when he does get something right he wants to show the world. He gets so excited about his accomplishments and loves to feel praise. Sometimes I think he does things nice for his brothers just so he can hear me say "you're so amazing krew thank you so much for_____  you're such a great kid," He will then put a big smile on his face and  and say "uh huh." He also loves to say prayers he loves talking to his heavenly father, he is always the one that wont touch his food until we have blessed it.  Rules are very important to him. I have to be very careful what I say to him because he will remember. He also loves to read, he gets so excited when we are out and about and can read something. he loves reading to his brothers Bob books. He is such a good big brother. Sometimes he doesn't realize that he's bigger than them so, he can get a little rough; but all boys are rough right? He is always willing to help them out and play games with them. He also really loves to be the boss and make his brothers do what he wants to do. But all in all I am so grateful for him and how smart, fun and sweet he is. I am so grateful to be his mother!! I am definitely going to miss him when he starts school Aug 8th!! Its coming up so fast.I know he will do great but I will be a mess that day!!

I love you so much Krew HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

THREE!!!

My Grazy is 3!! He turned 3 on the 3rd of April! 

Then:

Krew Kissing Gray When he was born!!

Now:

This picture shows his personality perfectly!! He is goofy, fun, smily, and always so happy!! He loves to dance, sing, Jump on the trampoline, Kick around balls, and ride bikes (he is very close to being able to ride a bike with out training wheels he is doing so good I'm so proud of him) *Update* He can ride a bike now as of May 1st he is very good at it and Loves to ride now** He is also my little helper, he loves to crack eggs, so that is his "job" every time I make anything with eggs, He's very good at it too.  And every time I clean he loves to help me his favorite jobs are washing the windows, moping the floor and vacuuming. He is so much fun to be around always has a lot of energy! He makes life so enjoyable!! 

Here are 20 questions that I asked him. 

1. What is your favorite color? Red, (that's why the whole post is in red)

2. What is your favorite toy? Batman car

3. What is your favorite fruit? Grapes

4. What is your favorite tv show? Mickey Mouse clubhouse

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Hot Dogs

6. What is your favorite outfit? Incredibles shirt

7. What is your favorite game? Fish game

8. What is your favorite snack? Crackers

9. What is your favorite animal? Horse

10. What is your favorite song? Twinkle twinkle little star

11. What is your favorite book? Tickle Monster

12. Who is your best friend? Grant Curtis

13. What is your favorite cereal? Dora Cereal

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride Bikes

15. What is your favorite drink? Juice

16. What is your favorite holiday? Halloween, When I was Phineas 

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Sunny Bear, Bongo, Really big monkey blanket and small blue blanket

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? cereal and toast

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Hot dogs

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? big like daddy

Weight: 33 lbs

 Height: 38 3/4" 

Gray Had so many different ideas of what theme he wanted for his birthday party, it started out as just a blue party, he wanted everything blue, blue cake blue forks blue plate he was really excited about blue. Then Krew started giving him other ideas.

K-"Oh Gray you could have a soccer ball party"

G-"Yeah I want a soccer ball party"

Me- "sounds good"

K- "or you could have an avenger birthday party"

G- "No, I want a soccerball party...........ok, I want an avenger birthday party"

Me- "ok" (but really thinking I just did that last year for Krews birthday, could be fun again I guess)

K-"Oh I know Gray you could have a soccer ball and Avenger birthday party"

G- "YEAH"

me-"Um I think thats a little too much for mommy to handle you will need to just pick one"

G- "ok. I want a Spiderman birthday party"

Don't really know where that came from but, Thats what he decided and we went with it! We had a lot of fun. since his birthday was only a few days after we got home from Texas it was hard to get everything planned exactly how I imagined it but it was good and the only friend he wanted to invite was Grant his best friend (And Michele his sister)

I am very proud of this sign! I love it so much!!

I love this kid more though!!! 

mmmmmm Trying to fit a whole cupcake in his mouth!

Just thought this was a sweet picture of Gray and Daddy!! They have a special bond!!

Our attempt at a spiderman cake, not the best but Gray sure loved it!!

All the kiddos in front of the giant spider web
(Michele, Krew, Gray, Grant, and Bennett)

LET THE FUN BEGIN:

Crawling through a spiderweb being careful not to get stuck

Coloring and playing with stickers they sure had a blast with those stickers

We also had a piñata and I got a video of it but I couldn't get it to load it on here. I made the Piñata from a paper bag and that thing would NOT break, I thought for sure it would break really easily, But Brandon even took a turn and he had to hit it really hard like 5 times before it would break, and by that time all of the candy was shattered into millions of pieces, and some of the pieces broke out of the plastic and flew all over the carpet. It was eventful.

PRESENTS:

Gray was really excited about his Batman car from Grandma Sloan

in the chaos I forgot to get pictures of the other gifts but thats not really what birthdays are about. They are about celebrating life!! I am so glad that Gray was born he is always happy and silly and has a smile on his face!! I love him so much, He brings a lot of joy and peace into this family!!

I LOVE YOU GRAZY GOO!!

Just some pictures of the decorations mostly for me.