We Have a Birthday, Shout Hooray!

On September 14, our little guy turned two years old. We can't believe he is two already. He is in a really fun stage right now, and we can't imagine life without him. Even Cooper always tells us that his life wouldn't be the same if Clayton wasn't around.
This past 8 months have been pretty rough for Clayton. He has ended up in the doctors office 5 or 6 times for Croup. His little airways must not be strong enough, because he keeps getting sick about every month. He has spent alot of time taking meds or breathing treatments and he is so tired of it. I don't think a 2 year old should even know how to say medicine, but he does.
Clayton has really found his love for four wheelers that last couple of months. Bryce keeps them on the trailer and everyday he asks about them. He would love life if we would take him on a ride every day! Clayton also loves tractors, trucks, and trailers. This summer he has really enjoyed hooking up his trailers to his trucks and pulling them around. He also points out all the tractors as we drive down the road. For his birthday, I made him a cake with tractors on it and then he received tractors, trucks, and trailers for gifts. Clayton does not enjoy shopping with me. If its a quick trip, then he is fine, but not it it takes me longer. He is in that fun stage where they don't really want to sit in the cart. But when he gets down, it doesn't take him long before he wants me to hold him. I tell him that he can sit in the cart because I am not going to hold him while I am pushing the cart. This is followed by him laying down in the middle of the aisle, crying, and sprawled out. It only last for a few seconds, and then I help him up and we are on our way! So much fun!We have spent a lot of time outside this summer because the weather has been so beautiful. He has loved being able to ride all of his toys. He is very fast and coordinated on them and it is fun to watch him go! He just learned how to ride his tricycle a week ago and I thought that was a big accomplishment considering many kids don't learn the pedalling motion till their older.

Clayton is not a very good eater. In fact, I heard that children his age actually only have one good meal a week. The more I pay attention, I realized that is true. Clayton picks at his food, but doesn't eat a whole lot. His favorite foods right now are: eggs and raisins for breakfast, he loves cheese, string cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, grapes, avocados, peaches, strawberries, rice and beans. For Clayton's birthday, we had the Gabrish's over for homemade pizza, cake and ice cream. I made chicken-garlic-bacon-spinach-tomato pizza and a pepperoni-green pepper-onion pizza. Clayton got a hold of the cup of flour when I wasn't looking and was having a great time with it.After dinner, we sang Happy Birthday to him. He was scared of the candles, so he wouldn't bend down to blow them out. He really just wanted the tractors to be off his cake, so he could eat the cake and play with them. I think he had a great birthday. We are so thankful that Clayton is part of our family and that Heavenly Father sent him to us two years ago!