Noah’s 2nd Birthday

It seems like we spent the whole day celebrating Noah’s Birthday. It started before I even woke up with some blueberry muffins.

The next stage was a card hand made by Nathan for Noah. He made Mommy write it, but the words were “I love you! You are my brother and my best friend” Nathan wrote his name, Noah’s name, and drew a picture on it. Noah was impressed, but ready to get back to his trains.

Early in the day Meredith and I had our typical Saturday morning conversation. It normally happens at about 10:00 when the boys have already been up for 3 hours and we are looking at a long, long time till bedtime. We will start trying to decide what we are going to do. Since there isn’t much to do that doesn’t involve driving for and hour this can be a long conversation. Today we decided to go play putt-putt in Columbus at an indoor place so we would be out of the heat.

We were proceeding on this plan when I decided that it would be better just to take that money and go buy an inflatable pool and new water hose (because ours was shredded and that miracle wrap around stuff didn’t fix it). So that is what we did.

After a trip to Dollar Tree for Mommy and Nathan and a trip to Walmart for Noah and I we had our next round of birthday surprises. Noah’s big present from us was a new powered riding toy. Noah is great at pushing the button and making it go, but not so great at steering. He pretty much drives straight until he hits a wall.

 

Noah also got a car and a book from Nathan. Nathan even wrapped the presents himself.

 

After a week of people with fever in our house we decided to have our party at Big Daddy’s instead. We called and reserved the party room and moved the festivities up there. There aren’t a whole lot of people Noah’s age around so we invited his babysitters and a few older friends to come hang out. Amber just got off work and brought him a snow cone.

 

I know Noah looks a little rough here, but he has a good excuse. You can’t tell because of the flash, but by this time we were sitting in a dark restaurant. There was a big storm (so big it was a little scary outside and the power went off. So we were all pretty hot from lack of air conditioning. Noah had a few mishaps starting with slipping in the water that was leaking in through the windows. He bumped his head and got the back of his clothes soaked. In this first picture he is just about ready to reach out and touch the candle. The scream that everyone made to try to get him not to scared him so that’s why he looks a little upset in the next picture.

 

But of course all of those mishaps were taken care of when he got to eat cake. Cake is what birthdays are all about to Noah. Every time he heard someone talking about his birthday party (for the past few weeks even) he would say “birthday cake” and start looking for a piece. So we let him have at it tonight.

 

Sometimes I get a bit carried away when buying stuff so when I got the plates and napkins I thought it would be fun to get some Mickey Mouse candy too. The three big kids were happy to fight for the whole bag

   

Noah got a few more presents (including a Cars DVD that he got with a Walmart card from Grandmother and a Thomas the Tank engine mega block set), fell down one more time and got soaking wet on the way to the car.

  

The evening ended with two very tired boys sitting on the couch eating popcorn and watching cars.

The other big event of the night is that I have decided that since he is 2 Noah no longer needs a pacifier. So tonight for the first time he is sleeping without one. It helps that he is exhausted.