Happy 2nd Birthday

Happy Birthday Nicholas. I cannot believe he is 2 already. Its like time keeps going fast and faster. I'm not a fan of this speed time. I remember many moons ago where it would be December and Christmas would take forever to get here. Now, "what? you say its Christmas already? AGAIN?" Oh well. Fun times for all. So we had a great birthday celebration. Started out that my dad had an extra ticket to the Stars opening night game at the AA center. So me and Nick went and let daddy have a night to himself to watch all those scary movies I refuse to watch with him. It was a late night but he really had a great time watching all the activities and yelling "GO STARS" and doing the whole dance when they scored. Unfortunately though they lost in overtime, and a shootout. But maybe if they would have started playing in the first period like they did in the 3rd it never would have been tie. Anyway I digress. Stars game = awesome. I love them. And I love sharing them with my little boy.
The next day we went to the Botanical gardens in Ft. Worth. I think this will be a tradition each year. I really love going there and taking pictures. It was a beautiful day and he really enjoyed feeding the fish and running around like crazy boy. And not to mention I was excited b/c the professional photo people doing bridal shots were making suggestions to me on how to get great shots, I almost felt like maybe I look like what I'm doing. HAHAHAHA!

Watching the big coy fish



Shot that a real photographer suggested



Daddy did good on this one. Me and Nick are watching the rather large turtles come to the surface to get some bread the kids were throwing into the water.


Birthday celebration was small and intimate. Just my parents and 2 brothers. It was perfect. Here is Nick with uncle D in his party attire and blower. He sure loved the blowers. Except he would bite them instead of blowing on them to make the paper roll out.


He got all kinds of good presents from everyone. He is such a lucky boy to be so loved.

This is what mom and dad got him. "My bike" he says. This boy LOVES riding bikes. Even if he can't pedal, he just wants to sit on it. I can't wait until we can start taking him out on family bike rides on his own bike. Will be a while though b/c we'll have to wait until baby #2 is a year old. So for now it will just be mom or dad.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Like the cake? I made it myself. Not proud of it by any means, but considering that I've never made a 3D cake before, I think its not too bad. You can at least tell what it is. Nicholas is way into trains right now, and he geeked out when he saw this cake. It was worth all the work for sure. Didn't turn out quite like I had imagined, piping was my main problem. I think if I had a steady hand it would have looked better.

And his 2 year stats bean pole:

26.5 lbs - Dr wouldn't give us a % just said it was finally in the normal range (sad) I swear we feed him
36 inches - 95%
19 in head - probably in low % too, both mom and dad have small heads too. Don't be fooled though, big brains reside w/in.