Gavin's 2nd Birthday

Gavin turned 2 last week on the 10th.  Before then he didn't have any concept of birthdays.  When he woke up that morning and saw all of the decorations, especially the balloons, he became very excited.  All day he kept saying 'birthday'.  Initially I had no plans for any type of theme but since he's into trains right now, I decorated his cake with trains and had train paperware.   

He loves McDonalds so we had his birthday dinner there.  Afterwards we came home to open presents and have cake.  From us, he received a climbing slide, wooden puzzles, Thomas the Train block/lego set, KU basketball and bubble machine.  G&G Kennington gave him Thomas and Elmo pajamas and a Thomas telephone.  G&G Leonard gave him a German book with sound buttons (he loves the doorbell button).  Nanna crocheted him a small blanket with the colors of the rainbow and a book all about colors

Oh Matt--what's next?

Our Matthew is full of personality.  He's always doing something silly.  In public, though, he tends to act a bit timid.  But, this just means, at home he's 100% himself.  The other day he found a bag of googly-eyes and put them all over his face.  He walked into the bathroom while I was giving Gavin a bath.  We couldn't stop laughing when we saw him.  When I took this photo I asked him to smile but he mumbled through his lips that if he smiled the eyes on his mouth would fall off.  What a character!

His craziness gets him into trouble sometimes.  Like Sunday evening.  Again while  I bathing Gavin, Matt was riding his skateboard in the hall.  He slipped off and gashed his head on our built-in cabinets.  So, off he and I went to the ER.  The gash was an inch long and quite deep.  The doctor decided to staple it shut.  When Matt heard the word 'staple', he was concerned that they were paper staples.