My Baby is Two!

It probably couldn't have been more perfect...Owen was a super sweet baby all day!!! Okay, I probably need to stop calling him "baby" or "the baby" all the time now that he has officially hit toddlerhood. He has been a bit of a bear lately so you can understand why I am not ready to let go of my baby and why I am so excited that he was so good. I have really been sweating the fact that I might have a terrible two year old on my hands. His personality to this point has been so easygoing. I'm still telling myself that this past month of clinging and crying whenever I walk out of the room... just a phase, right?

Anyway, his birthday was a wonderful day. We hung out around the house all day. He was not crying whenever I turned around and we played, napped, enjoyed ourselves. (I actually got work done!) Kip and Aidan had been gone on their daddy-son camping trip and we were really missing them. Owen inquired daily for the past week about "Aidan?" "Dada?" etc. - always wondering where they were or if that sound he just heard was Aidan playing. As their arrival time got closer, I told Owen that Aidan and Daddy were almost home. He got so excited that he started running in circles. We watched out the window and as soon as the truck pulled up, things got even crazier. When Aidan walked in, Owen was all over him! I don't know quite how to describe it. It was one of the sweetest things I have ever seen. Hugs and kisses were flying everywhere! My two boys reunited. Earlier in the day, I was beginning to feel a little guilty that we didn't have a big party for Owen. But the arrival of his "big brovers" and "dada" made his day. I loved it!!!

Aidan and I went to pick up a last minute cake and I accidentally messed up the frosting. The cake lady "fixed" it by putting the ring of white around it. We laughed so hard because it looked like our perfect sunshine cake had an accident and had to be put in a head wrap!

Owen was a little freaked out by the flames. Who knew?