Caleb is two, good for a party!

My baby is officially two! Probably not so much a baby anymore!

Because Caleb is still pretty young, our birthday celebrations were low key. But fun! And his siblings loved preparing for it. Craig was the instigator behind putting up the birthday banners, and had a timeline for wrapping presents, too, including the "robot" made of megabloks that Craig made for Caleb. Calista picked out the cake flavor - chocolate - and drew a picture. On Caleb's actual birthday, Calista wore an outfit she said was, "good for a party!" and Craig woke up chanting, "Caleb is two, Caleb is two! Do you know why I woke up? Because I remembered Caleb is two!"

Since his birthday was on a regular Monday this year, Caleb got to do exciting things like... drop off Craig at preschool! Go grocery shopping! Have a nap! But once everyone got home, then the real celebrations began.

We had pizza for dinner, which is one of Caleb's favorite things. When he saw it, he started pointing at it and saying, "Pizza!" repeatedly, hoping that some would make its way to his plate. It did.

After dinner was time for presents, and wow!, was that a success. Not only was Caleb quick to figure out the unwrapping, but he absolutely adored everything he was given.

As did Calista and Craig, truth be told.

We had to pull them all away from the magnetic blocks and duplos to go play at the park together,

and Caleb wouldn't let spinosaurus go, so he came with.

 

The park was a lot of fun. Easy little paths I'd like to go back and have Calista (and maybe Craig) practice riding their bikes on, and a fantastic playground for many different ages that the kids could've stayed for much longer at...

however, various showers made it a necessity for us to go home before we got blown away.

Plus, at home, there was cake! A triple layer chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting,

which I made the day prior to Caleb's birthday and had in the fridge, ready to go.

When I opened the fridge after putting Caleb down for a nap, however, I found the cake looking like this:

I know I'll laugh about this someday (maybe even tomorrow), but in the moment I was mad. And all the more upset when the only other person in the house (that wasn't asleep and can actually open the fridge) wouldn't tell me the truth about what happened for a while. Oh well.

Despite the finger holes, we still had a candle to light, a song to sing, and a cake to eat!

And to top it all off, in celebration of Caleb's birthday, we headed to the science center as a family later in the week. They have recently opened an exhibit on dinosaurs, so naturally, we headed there, first. Caleb (and the other two) were fascinated.

He kept running around, pointing and putting his hands excitedly in the air. It was adorable.

Not carry-on baggage anymore!

Happy Birthday to my not-baby boy! I love you so much!