September 4, 2010

We celebrated Henry's actual birthday at one of his favorite places, The Please Touch Museum. This museum is basically a make believe heaven for little kids. It has a grocery store (Henry's fav), a hospital, water table taking up an entire room, and a car mechanic area...just to name a few! Todd's parents came up from Virginia which of course, Henry loved!

Later that night my parents came over for Henry's birthday dinner. Henry really loved being able to be with both sets of grandparents. What a lucky little boy! I was bad about taking pictures again, but we had a blast with everyone!

Henry loved us singing to him! But was not into blowing out the candle.

After the sugar kicked in from his strawberry shortcake birthday cake, the party really started!

The weekend celebration was so wonderful I didn't want it to end! I think Henry felt the same way since tonight at dinner ( a week later) when I was getting ready to serve dessert he said "sing birthday" over and over again!

B is for Birthday

Last weekend we celebrated Henry's 2nd birthday. I can't believe our baby is already two and his baby days are a thing of the past. Henry is very much a toddler. His favorite things are trucks, balls, Elmo, and playing outside. Henry has been a part of a playgroup since he was about 6 months old. We meet every week and this group has been so wonderful not only to Henry, but for me as well. Since Henry has such great friends already in the playgroup and in the neighborhood, I wanted to throw him a friend party. So the day before his birthday we had an Elmo party for about ten little ones.

Henry getting ready for his friends to show up. Todd made Cookie and I made felt cookies for the Cookie Toss game.

Mckenzie and Henry playing with Dorothy's friends

Playing Pin the Nose on Elmo

Cookies and Cupcakes!

Getting some much needed help with blowing out the candle

YUM!

We had so much fun at Henry's party that I forgot to take any before pictures of the games and set up, but hopefully the pictures we did get will help Henry remember his first friend party. I had a sign welcoming the guests that said "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Henry's party?" and the sign behind us in this picture says "This party is brought to you by the letter H and the number 2." We ordered pizza of course since that is both Elmo and Henry's favorite! We also had basketball with a Sesame Street ball, an Oscar trash toss, and I made mini Sesame Street coloring books. I think I had just as much fun getting ready for the party as Henry had at the party!

Roofs Visit

I don't know how I almost forgot to post about the Roofs visit as a part of our Summer Lovin series. Our big adventure was going to the Please Touch Museum (as I mentioned before, we've been there a lot!) Of course, fun was had by all!

Giant water table

Henry checking out Sydney's tiny fingers

Boys love all things with wheels!

Katie, Bryan, Jackson, Sydney, and Charlie, thanks for making the trip up to see us!

Summer Lovin Part 3

Here is the last of our summer updates....

Checking out the animals at the farm with Madalyn

On a hike for Pop's birthday. Henry walked (and ran) for the entire hike (probably close to 2 miles!)

We spent a lot of time this summer looking at, talking about, playing with, and reading about trucks! Living in a new construction neighborhood is pretty much heaven on Earth for Henry. LOTS O TRUCKS

We visited the fire station with our playgroup.

We discovered a great up and coming children's author....More to come on that!

This summer was actioned packed for us! We hope that Henry had as much fun as we did making so many wonderful family memories.

Summer Lovin Part 2

Back for some more summer updates....

Visit from Auntie Ann!!!

NYC to celebrate our 5 year anniversary.

Next up...our trip to Cincinnati for my cousin's wedding.

Awesome Playground

At the reception

Splashing with Daddy at "The Beach"

Playing trucks with cousin Milani

Henry was such a great traveler this summer! We are so lucky to have such an easy going little boy. I sure hope that continues through the twos!

Summer Lovin

We've had a fun filled summer. Here is a brief recap of what's been keeping us busy...

Staying cool (and hydrated) on hot summer days

Resting up after playing with Henry's friend, Lillian

Making new friends on the patio

Plenty of rock throwing in rivers and lakes

Reston Zoo with Grandma, Grandpa, and Dad

Fabulous Wedding with Fabulous Friends

More resting after our trip to Northern VA.

Several trips to the Please Touch Museum (and more to come!)

Well, that gets us through July. August updates coming soon! We are off to Henry's 2 year check up. We are both not excited about the shots, but I tried to prepare Henry for the visit by practicing what the doctor will do (check ears, eyes, mouth, etc....Christine, thanks for the idea!) We'll see if any of that helps when the actual doctor is doing it!