Our Little 2 Year Old!

We can hardly believe that two years has gone by and our little baby has turned into a running, screaming, playful little guy! We look at him and listen to all the things he says, and just look at each other and laugh! Where in the world does he pick up some of the things he does sometimes? It leaves Brian and I pointing fingers at each other and saying, "He got that from you!" Last year at his first birthday we gave out CD's that I made with all types of nursery rhyme songs. Well now that is all we listen to in our car everyday!!! Christian loves this CD and sings the words to a few songs and will scream at you if you do not play the right one! There is a Happy Birthday song on there that he is obsessed with and wants to sing over and over. I keep telling him it is no longer his birthday, but he does not care! I want to get it on video, but have not had the opportunity!

Christian's 2nd birthday was on Aug. 29 and we celebrated with a little party on that Saturday. Mostly family and a few friends of his are all that attended, but my goodness the gifts were just a little much! I think that our two year old has more toys than most kids twice his age! SPOILED ROTTEN!!!!! Most of our immediate family has birthdays in the Summer except his Poppy and Uncle Stevie! So this summer he got to witness alot of present opening and I must say has become an expert at it! I do not even think he cares what is in the gift, he just wants to rip it open! I took much more video of him at his birthday than I did pictures so you will have to excuse the lack of pictures! The video on blogger is being very difficult and downloading has not been very easy these days!

The birthday party was from 10-12 in the afternoon and had a Thomas the Train theme because he is obsessed with trains right now! Being 81/2 months pregnant I was not doing anything extravagant for this party! We put up the water slide and the kids could come and go as they pleased. They would play inside and then go outside too. We had pizza and cake to eat and that was about it! Once everyone had eaten we decided to do the cake and blow out candles! Christian loves blowing out candles.....so he was excited to finally get his turn! I promise I did not put trick candles on his cake, but it took a few trys to blow them out. I think he spit more on the cake than anything, but it was adorable and I do not think anyone minded! I do not know what possessed me to take on the challenge of making his cake, but I thought it could not be that difficult! It actually was pretty easy except the icing was a little pain in the rear! I made a train cake and iced it in colors of Thomas the Train! I must say that it turned out very cute, but I am a far cry from Martha Stewart! I am just cheap and did not want to shell out the expense for having a cake made! My mother however, she did all that stuff for my sister and I growing up and she helped me out a little! I can not take all the credit!

After cake we opened presents! I would prefer waiting until everyone leaves because it is less chaotic, but Brian wanted him to open them all right there and then. I think it can be a little overwhelming for a 2 year old, but oh well! He got more trains than any child could possibly imagine. We now have train tracks up and downstairs for him to play with all the time! My house looks like freaking Toys R Us! Brian and I gave him an automatic truck that he can drive around the yard and in the driveway. He loves it! I only have to make sure he does not go down the driveway because that would be bad! My parents gave him a Radio Flyer spring horse......that he is not so sure of because it is to big for him right now. Nene and Poppy Banta gave him a remote control boat for the lake in front of our house and some hot wheel cars! He puts the cars on the train tracks too! I could go on and on and list all his toys, but that would take up the whole blog! Lets just say, maybe next year there is a one toy limit from everyone! I need to go through old toys and start giving to Hanna Home because it is just ridiculous for someone his age to have so much! Thank you notes are on the way everyone.....I ran out and had to order more so I apologize for the tardiness! All and all it was a great day and our little guy was exhausted after everyone left! He was a little wound up from all the toys and I had to put them away to get him to calm down for his nap! I believe he drifted off to sleep dreaming of trains and all his toys he could play with when he woke up! Thanks to everyone who made it such a great day for Christian! We will all have wonderful memories to look back on one day!