Yesterday our little man turned 2 years old! It's hard to believe that it's been two years since we held this little bundle in our arms. . .
and a whole year since this:
Here is Jamie immediately after waking up on his second birthday.
He was very excited when I reminded him it was his birthday, because that meant "cupcakes!" I asked what he wanted to do, and he said, "Eat cupcake." I said, "Ok, anything else?" and he replied, "Eat cake." I again asked, "Anything else?" And he said, "Eat 2 cupcakes." So you can see where his priorities lie.
He opened his presents as soon as he got out to the living room and discovered them on the coffee table. His presents from us included these hand puppets which I made (found the idea/pattern here)
and this set of pop-up books.
Anyway.
Jamie did a FANTASTIC job opening presents. It was the first time he has been very interested in the actual opening process. He did it almost all by himself. Then when he had opened a present, he sat down and enjoyed it before moving on to another one. When he opened books, we had to read them right then. When he opened swim trunks, he had to put them on immediately (almost entirely by himself. I was very impressed). It was just the best present time ever.
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| In case you were wondering, wagons are good for hauling wrapping paper to the trash can. |
After dinner, some of our friends came over to sing happy birthday and eat cupcakes. I made Jamie Elmo cupcakes (got the idea on pinterest). I felt like I had to choose between good tasting frosting and good decorating frosting. I choose good tasting, so it really wasn't stiff enough to decorate with and they could have looked better. But that's okay, Jamie still loved them.
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| family photo |
