Although our baby boy isn't two until tomorrow, we had his little family celebration yesterday. I knew I wouldn't be up for a big party with a newborn, so we just invited his grandparents and his older cousin, Maddie, to come down for the day. It turned out just perfect! All his favorite people were here and it was nice and low key with lots of love and fun. Poor boy is battling a cold (just like last year), but he got in an early nap and after some warm up time, was ready to party.
We had pizza for lunch, which is a rare treat for him and he ate two whole pieces. I decided to make his cake and wanted to make it in the shape of an airplane, but couldn't find a pan shaped that way. So, I decided to just make it to reflect some of his most favorite things: flags and planes. It ended up looking a bit like a GI Joe cake, but he loved it. Susan and I felt vindicated when in front of his grandparents (who think we deprive him by not giving him sugar!) I had to feed him a bite of his cake and after one bite he said "all done" and wouldn't eat any more.
He got some really thoughtful gifts, which he spent the evening enjoying! Gran and Grandad got him the Tag Junior system and his cousins sent along a bunch of the accompanying books. Gramma and Papa got us a family plus membership to Marbles (kids museum). We can't wait to use it and since it's a plus membership, Theo can take a friend for free! So, hit us up for a Marbles play date. Aunt Sammy gave him a book about poop which he is fascinated by, much to Susan's chagrin. :) We gave him a big race track, a little book from the dollar spot at Target and a photo album we made him of pictures of his favorite things. The dollar book was the big hit and he cried when he couldn't take it in the bath with him.
Thank you to the grandparents and Maddie for making the trip, it made his birthday celebration perfect! We are so lucky that our baby is so loved. Tomorrow we will make him "panbakes" and ziti and celebrate the biggest day of our lives when we became parents. Amazing.
My parents also fee we deprive Ellie of sugar...so much so that they brought her a mini candy bar when they came to visit this weekend. They didn't tell me they gave it to her until AFTER she ate the whole thing. Ugh, grandparents. But at least Theo didn't even want it - Ellie goes crazy for it (I think because she rarely gets it, 'cept for the potty!) Anyway, sounds like a perfect birthday - Theo is super adorable.
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