Guess who’s two!

We love our little man.  Two is going to be a great age for this one.

It’s amazing to watch another “language boom” stage.  He’s been piecing little sentences together lately, and getting more and more adventurous with words.  “I yike toast” was the first of many surprising little phrases.

I digress.  Today we invited all the family nearby to come on over for dinner, cake, and -sorry- no ice cream.  With… let’s do a head count shall we?  Our family + kids.  Two of John’s siblings and their 4 kids each.  My parents & Grams, his parents, my sister, brother & girlfriend… Yeah.  It was a house full.  I think the oldest of the 12 kids here was about 10, and most were under 6.  (LOUD!)  Man, I love it when we all get together.  I love it even more, though, during the summer when the kids all play outside. 

The dragon cake was a big hit.  (Family Fun has lovely birthday cake recipes, by the way.) I made it during Eagle’s nap today, was still decorating it with the big kids when he got up, and he was totally enamored.  He kept saying, “My daggy fie!”  (which of course means “My awesome dragon is going to fly!”)  Doodle only sneezed right on it twice in the process of helping decorate it, and only some of those fruit snacks were taste-tested by the birthday boy.

I thought it would be awesome to set up Doodle’s playmobile knights around it, but Doodle would have nothing to do with it.  You just never know with him what’s going to be fun and what’s going to be a no go.  I had to sneak these here to satisfy my own creativity.  (Shh!  Don’t tell him!)  Haha!  I win!

Forgive me for making a big deal out of this cake.  I haven’t made a birthday cake since Doodle’s pirate chest, when he turned (cough cough) three.  Yyyyyyyyyeah.  Slacker mom.

Well, John is doing the huge family dinner mess clean up all on his own… So… I should probably get my duff up off the couch and help, what do you think?

(not even half the group!)

(Your hair looked fab tonight, Mom, even if this picture did get shmeared.)

Thanks for coming to EveryoneWhoCame, and you were missed, AllWhoCouldNotBeHere.

Happy Birthday Eagle!  We love you!!!