Birthday 2

Our little boy is 2! He is so much fun and is continuing to learn and show his personality. We often find him with a bucket on his head, or lining up his cows, horses, sheep and pigs on his truck, for market I guess :) He spends a lot of time on the stool next to me in the kitchen, doing whatever I am doing. He is also now in the habit of taking my fingers and saying "room", which means he wants me to come play in his room. He loves to tell the dog "NO" and is pretty handy with a hammer. We went to Home Depot for their kids workshop and once I set the nails in the predrilled holes he put them in the rest of the way with hardly a miss. As for mischief, his biggest temptations seem to be the dog water, because everything needs a bath or needs to go swimming :) and the dog food, as it is so much fun to dump out and withhold from the dog. Here he is visiting his gifts before his birthday. He knew they were for him.
Openning some gifts from family, he had a hard time remembering how to do it since it was half a lifetime since he had done it last.

Here was his largest gift, a teepee made by my parents, with his flashlight of course. This was a big hit at the party and it's big enough for me to go in and play with him...very nice.

Party and cake...this is the second year I have bought ice cream and forgotten to put it out, and the second year no one has asked me about it! He loved the cake and the friends but had quite the strange look on his face when everyone started singing to and looking at him.

"I can eat cake all by myself anyday, but I still need help with vegetables!"

It continued to snow for over a week after his birthday and he didn't like it the first time out, maybe because Chile jumped on his back and he went over like a tree facefirst into 6 inches.

But he loved making snow angels and falling on his back into the snow, he is by the way a great snow angel maker :)