Ethan turns 2!!

Yesterday was the big day, the day Ethan has been looking forward to for months. The day he gets to eat cake and have people sing Happy Birthday to him! We woke up Saturday morning to find it raining. Poor Ethan started to cry when he looked out the window. (It has literally rained 3 times since we moved here in April, so of all days right?) We assured a crying Ethan that we would still have his party but since the grass was still really wet, we decided to move it indoors.. kind of. We set up the table and chairs inside our garage and opened it up to the alleyway. I know, pretty tacky but it ended up working out fine since most of the kids who came lived on the alleyway so all the kids could just run around and play in the alley. It was a pretty crazy day. There were about 12 kids ranging in age from 4 months to 4 years old.

We had a fun activity where the kids each got to make their own stuffed animal and create a shirt to put on it. Very Build-a-bearish and quite the hit.
Ethan was very aware that it was his birthday and when a friend would arrive with a present, he would run right over to grab it. It amazes me how fast these kids pick up on these things! Ethan loved all of his presents and woke up at 5:30a this morning begging me to take him downstairs to play. Since today is Bryan's birthday, he was allowed to sleep in (which means to 8a). I had to draw the line this afternoon when Ethan wanted to take his tractor, his garbage truck and toy barbecue in bed with him for his nap. He is in absolute heaven with his new loot though I am not sure if he understands that his birthday only comes once a year.

I, on the other hand, am okay with that. Planning these parties is a lot of work, not to mention trying to secretly buy a present and cake for Bryan. It was all worth it and seeing the smiles on the faces of the two men in my life was priceless!