On the 23rd we celebrated our little munchkin's 2nd birthday. I feel like a broken record saying "I can't believe he is already 2" but I honestly don't know where the last 2 years have gone. I remember the day he was born like it was just yesterday. But the past 2 years have been a blast, watching him grow and develop into the outgoing little boy that he is. Recently he has become quite the chatter box and is using sentences, amazing us daily with his vocabulary and knowledge.
We celebrated his big 2nd birthday with Batman and our family. No huge party this year. Mommy decided to keep it low key and it was perfect. Just inviting family and couple of close friends the guest list was still over 30 but we still had a wonderful time. Everyone came over to the house (for the last birthday party in the house, more on that in a different post) and we grilled out burgers and hot dogs.
Alex had been sick all week but thankfully he felt good enough to enjoy his party on Sunday. His cake was fabulous. Created by my friend Cassie:
After a few tries and help from mommy, he figured out how to blow out the candles and thought it was pretty cool.
Presents were a huge hit this year. He jumped right in, ripping paper and diving into bags to see what all they held. The looks of amazement on his face were priceless.
We did quickly realize that he didn't quite get he concept of "open all the gifts first, and then go back and play with them". He wanted every gift opened and out of the box immediately. He had to check it out and see what it did before he would move on to the next one. It was quite entertaining and very time consuming but he was enjoying all his gifts so I had a hard time making him stop. One of the biggest distractions were the box of gummies that Mamaw and Paw had put on the front of his gift. We had to stop several times to open up a pack of gummies and eat them.
After all the presents had been opened we went outside to watch for the reveal of the last gift from Nana and Poppy...
Notice our matching shirts in the previous picture? :)
And then he had to check out the big gift. I liked this picture because you can see his cape really good too.
After checking it out, he finally got in. One push on the pedal and discovering what it did, he thought it was fantastic. It is hard to see the smile in the picture because of his hat, but it was huge. He hasn't quite mastered steering but absolutely loves driving his truck. Every time we go through the garage, he points at the trucks and says "mines!". That gift was definitely a hit!
Now we have a nice family collection of blue Ford trucks!
Birthday fun continued the next day at Sandy's when he got to celebrate with his friends. I took them pizza and ice cream for lunch and Sandy gave him a piece of cake with a candle. He really started to enjoy the birthday fun and now whenever you mention a birthday, he moves his head back and forth and sings "happy, happy, birthday".
Here is a video of the fun at Sandy's:
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