Dear Peyton

Dear Peyton,

I cannot believe you are already two years old! You are the happiest little boy in the world. You are always smiling and giggling. Your giggle is so contagious that it makes everyone want to laugh right along with you. I see a lot of your dad in you, but your laugh is probably the characteristic that reminds me of your dad the most.  You can also light up the whole room with your smile and you have the most gorgeous blue eyes!

We had some big changes this year. We moved houses, you became a big brother and I decided to be a stay-at-home mom! You didn't seem to notice one bit and have taken all the big changes in stride.

You LOVE your daddy. If daddy is home, you are always right by his side and want to do everything he is doing. You are also such a big helper! If I am doing housework or feeding the dogs, you are right there with me asking if you can help.

You have just started to try and talk. Your speech is a little hard to understand, but it is the most adorable thing in the world!

You love to be outside! If we are at home, you often open the back door and go play happily in the back yard.

I love how you give me the biggest hugs and pat me on the back. You have just started saying I love you and it is adorable. You love your brothers. You want to be just like Patrick and you love to kiss on Conor.

Peyton, you are the most precious little boy and I thank God for you every day. I have had the time of my life being your mom these past two years! I can't wait to see what the next year holds for us!

Love you to the moon and back,

Mom

Peyton's 2nd Despicable Me Party

My sweet little Peyton turned two this weekend! I cannot believe he is already two years old! Time has flown by! Peyton loves Minions so we decided to throw him a Despicable Me party. He also sounds like a little minion when he speaks and it is so funny. This party was so fun to plan! Luckily I was up late a lot feeding a new baby so I had lots of time to craft while feeding.

Birthday Boy 

So excited about his party

Peyton's party set up

Me and my sweet boy

We made chocolate chips cookies to look like the cookie robots in the movie. The "robot" on the top is a pen top and the body of the robot is a wire hanger. Not exactly like a robot, but close enough :)

The little girl in the movie is obsessed with unicorns so we had cotton candy as unicorn fur

Peyton is obsessed with the despicable me short film about bananas. Once we watch it one time he has to watch it over and over again and giggles like crazy while watching it. So I attempted to draw a minion on chalk board. I'm definitely not an artist, but I gave it my best shot.

Peyton's minion cake

Agnes's caterpillars aka cheetos

The minion bananas

I originally had the idea to do a watermelon to look like a minion but I couldn't really find an oblong enough watermelon this time of year and I also forgot to get the goggle to go on it. So just a cute watermelon instead of a minion watermelon.

Minion cupcakes. These were surprisingly easy to make with twinkies.

Some minion napkins

When Gru first adopts the girls he puts up signs that say "food," "water" and "pee and poo." I decided to forgo the "pee and poo" with newspaper since it was a two year old's party. I also feared that the parents who had not seen the movie would think I was nuts!

Knocked Oooover! One of my favorite parts of the movie is at the carnival where Gru shoots down a space alien to get the little girl a stuffed unicorn. So we got some dart guns and made a little target for the kids to shoot the space alien.

We had bubble guns as Squid Launchers

Minion lanterns

Since his birthday was the weekend before Easter we decided to do an Easter egg hunt for the kids. So I made a few minion bags for the Easter egg hunt.

I forgot to take a picture of the eggs before they were hidden in the yard, but here is one of the minion eggs.

The front door

Outside the front door

Conor slept through the first part of the party and all the little kids loved to look at him and touch him. He soundly slept through all of the loud noises!

Some of Peyton's friends ready for the Easter egg hunt

Hunting for eggs

Peyton was so excited that everyone was rushing outside the door that he decided to run as fast as he could through the yard to the street and not look for any eggs. We finally convinced him that he should look for eggs instead of run.

I think he got 1 egg but he didn't care one bit

Sweet friends

Not surprised that my two boys went after the candy

Sweet little birthday boy

We couldn't find a big box at Target but thought the box of shame that is in the movie would make a great photo opportunity. So a few minutes before the party Michael decided to just make do with the box that we could find.

I'm so glad he decided to do it last minute because it was one of Peyton's favorite things about the party. Harper and Patrick loved it too!

Talking to Gigi

Peyton gets shy so he sat down and hid behind the box of shame when it was time to sing and blow out the candles. So we sang to him while he was sitting on the floor.

Conor woke up for the last half of the party

Being silly with daddy

Peyton was in no mood to take pictures after the party, but we tried anyway!

I wanted to take a family picture in front of the party backdrop, but Patrick really wanted to hold Conor so this is the best we could do

We had a little photo shoot after the party, so I could capture the precious little guy at 2 years old!

Love his precious little baby features

Laughing at Pat Pat. This is definitely how I will always remember my little guy at 2 years old! He is so happy and so animated!

It was such a fun day and I loved celebrating Peyton!