THE DAYTON FAMILY

Taylor's newest thing is to add an 's' to the end of some of his words - our favorite is what he calls David: "Daddy's." It is pretty cute :) He is almost 21 months old: Taylor loved watching the National ballroom competition held at the BYU about a week and a half ago. We watched Aunt Jessie, and Uncle Tia & Aunt Marie compete over a 3 day period. It is so fun to go watch, but also sad to not be competing anymore. Taylor didn't want to leave even though it was getting past his bedtime. He stopped at the top of the stairs to get one last look at the Amateur Latin competition. One of the days of the competition Taylor & I rode to Provo with The Waldrons. David had already taken our car with Tay's carseat still in it, so he got to sit in his old one next to cousin Christopher. The boys don't look too excited in this picture, but they played with each others' hands and passed a couple of toys back and forth the whole time. :) Lately, mos

David is officially heading to Kazakhstan this summer. He will be interning for the same international law firm he interned for last summer in Ukraine - Baker & McKenzie. He will be living in Алматы (Almaty), the largest city in Kazakhstan, although it is not the capital. He has his flight booked as of this past weekend. He leaves May 24th and returns August 14th. It will take him around 36 hours & 5 flights each direction. We are very excited about it, but we are also sad that he will be gone for so long and that we can't have another summer adventure together like last year. It just didn't seem possible this year with a brand new baby and our first child still under 2... We will miss David VERY much, but we are excited for him to have such a neat experience and to be able to intern with such a good firm. Almaty is down in the South East corner of the country right above Kyrgyzstan.

David's sister Becky wrote a really sweet post about David recently and since I mainly blog about Taylor I thought that it would be nice for people to read about David for a change. Here is the link: http://rebeccadayton.blogspot.com/2010/02/only-thing-hes-guilty-of-is-being.html

90% of the words that come from our son's mouth are "Ball" or some form of the word... i.e. 'football' or 'basketball' (bah-ball). This little guy spends most of his playtime each day shooting hoops. He actually makes most of his shots - even the crazy running ones. You can see his follow through in some of the pictures...he mostly shoots left-handed & every once in a while will use both hands, but never just the right. Whenever Tay is put into his carseat he begs for a ball...or multiple balls. He can't do anything without a ball. He even cries sometimes when I try to put him down for bed and he isn't holding one. He likes to fall asleep with a ball in his hand. This kid is obsessed! (Thanks for your genetic contribution David... :) !) We watched Grandma play in a regional basketball game & Taylor was in shock the whole time she was out there. He kept looking at me in confusion/excitement and saying, "Ma!" while pointing to her

Daddy's Hat: Taylor loves his duck slippers. He quacks as he runs around in them after we put them on each morning. This little guy sure loves ducks! (They might actually be chicks...but baby ducks and chicks are both yellow, so it works.) Taylor loves getting his picture taken while doing a silly face and then looking at it and laughing. Here are a few we took this week: You can't see it well, but he had a 'T' drawn on his cheek with black eyeliner and he thought it was pretty cool. He found the nerd glasses in Grandma's room & thought they were hilarious. The basketball usually just goes everywhere with him... :) I was taking an update picture & using the self timer and I asked him where the baby was...this is the 1st time he hasn't pointed to himself-haha!