TWO

My baby boy turned 2 years old today.  Not exactly sure how that is even possible.  I can remember the day he was born like it was yesterday.  I can remember his 1st birthday party like it was yesterday.  But yet its been another whole year.  Wow!

When Cannon woke up this morning, he was surprised with his birthday present from Andy & me.

He had the HUGEST smile when he realized what he got...Brookie was pretty excited too :) 

Then we moved onto his presents from Grandma....This kid is OBSESSED with Grandma's iPAD.  He knows how to get himself around and get to the apps he wants to play - its pretty scary how in tune with electronics kids are these days - its like a second language to them for sure.  Anyway....Grandma got him a VTech Innotab - its basically an iPAD style toy with a touch screen that he can play with.  We are hoping this will curb his appetite for the real thing - ha!

We had a blast celebrating our sweet boy today. His official party festivities aren't for a couple more weeks (this momma just couldn't get her act together this year) but we definitely made sure to make his day special. We spent most of the day with our good friends who also are our neighbors across the street and kept the kids busy, busy busy. Although I think I am more worn out then the kids - ha! I only wish I could have half of their energy. We started off the day going to a bouncy place. I wasn't sure how Cannon would do - I hadn't taken him since he was 18 months old - and lets just say he did NOT enjoy it that last time - he completely freaked out and he screamed like I was trying to cut off his legs. But I guess 6 months made all the difference b/c today he took off as soon as we walked in the place - he loved every second of it. He looks a little scared in this pic, but it more was of a concentration thing - this huge giant air pillow is hard work to climb up with everyone jumping around on it.

He loved going down ALL the slides this time (what a difference from 6 months ago when he was terrified of even the smallest ones).  He mostly wanted to go down the biggest ones there - in his mind - the bigger the better!  I definitely had quite the workout there climbing up all theses inflatables while carrying him - ha!

After bouncing around for a few hours, we came home for lunch and naps.  After waking up - we headed back outside for a few hours in the nice weather (it was actually almost getting too warm already - its only March!) to play with friends.

Then we got to celebrate with another Grandma...Andy's mom came over to see the birthday boy too and give him a fun new present - a 2 ft tall Fisher Price Ramp for cars.  (He was having so much fun with it before bed tonight - I had to take it out of his room b/c it was causing a huge meltdown - such torture to see a new toy and not be able to play with it until morning...hahahaha) We had a delicious dinner as part of the celebration..my mom made us all yummy prime rib roast with potatoes and veggies....soooo good!

Then we got to dig into yummy birthday cake and ice cream



 
Of course we sang Happy Birthday to the big 2 year old....lol - this pic looks like he is covering his ears.....but really he wasn't...he was just so excited knowing he was about to get some cake :)

He didn't quite get the idea about blowing out the candle.....he was more interested in trying to touch the flame....glad we caught him before that happened.

Finally got the candle out...with a little help from Daddy :)

And again - what a difference a year makes - he LOVED his cake this year - ate every last drop.

 These 2 pics of him covered in icing look like he is in a sugar daze.....sooo funny!

 He was a mess by the time he was done.....but it was oh so good!

 Then since he was pumped full of all that sugar - he took off running to go play with his new dump truck LOL!

(Birthday) Party Animal

**(The first part of the birthday celebration is just before this post...make sure you see that one too)**
We had to wait to celebrate Brooklynn's birthday with her parties until the weekend after since her actual birthday fell on a Monday this year.  Poor Brooklynn....her birthday has fallen on Opening Weekend for deer hunting season for the past several years....so this year was special since Daddy got to be here to help celebrate her on her actual day.  She doesn't mind though....and its easy for me to be able to pick which weekend I will do her parties - ha!

So on Saturday, November 12th we got to celebrate with all her friends at a fun bouncy place.  It was actually the same place we did it last year, but she asked to have it there again - which honestly it was FINE by me....they take care of everything - you just show up with cake and you are good to go...its a win-win!

Lots of her school friends got to come and play as well as lots of other friends too....she had a blast (and even some of the grown ups enjoyed the slides and bounce houses hahahaha) and the kids were sad when the time was up to move to the party room to eat cake - they wanted to run more!  The time really does go by fast when you are there running around and playing.  Of course once the kids were in the party room and served their pizza and cake, all was forgotten....cake and ice cream always makes things better - ha!  I didn't get too many pics of the kids playing - way to hard to keep up with all of them LOL....


Brookie was brave this year and tried out climbing the rock wall....getting all hooked up....

And off she went.....didn't reach the top but she did look pretty cute trying her hardest.....

Some friends jumping and sliding and being silly

Some more friends making the long climb up the big slide....

This slide is HUGE...and FAST!!!

Always fun to slide down in a group....

A friendly game of air hockey.....all the kids waited patiently for their turn..I can honestly say I have never seen an air hockey game in slow motion....hahahaha - it was cute and they had so much fun playing anyway!

Birthday Cake #2 for the week..it was delicious!!!

Time to sing Happy Birthday.....

Making her wish.....

After her party, several of her friends came over to the house to watch her open her gifts and play.....

So much fun celebrating with your friends....L-R - Chloe, Brookie, Elise, Olivia & Blakelyn

Playing beauty shop with Chloe & Blakelyn....

Taking her friends out for a ride in her new set of wheels....

 Sending her balloons up for a trip into the sky....

And finally after a fun-filled day, relaxing at home and playing with some more fun things received for her birthday.

The next day on Sunday, we celebrated her birthday...yet again..with Andy's family.  She had a blast spending the afternoon with them and got lots more neat things to play with.....

And yes....here is cake #3 for the week......another delicious treat (not sure why it rotated when I downloaded it.....)

It was definitely a fun-filled week with lots of celebrating and lots of cake eating hahahaha.  We had a blast and loved getting to celebrate our little girl turning 4 years old!