Declan's 2nd Birthday

Declan,

You are 2 years old now!  We had so much fun celebrating your birthday!

Dad and I woke you up with the Beatles Birthday song.  You weren't thrilled at first, but you got pretty excited after we finally got you out of bed:



After we got dressed, we headed out for some Ex-Cop Donut Shop.  They made you your very own donut with blue sprinkles on it.  Mom brought candles and we sang to you.

After breakfast, we headed to the Botanical Garden.  We had a blast playing in the Children's Garden.  We started at the Lewis and Clark Canoes where we tried to get your brother to entertain us.  It did't go as well as we had hoped, lol!

We also attempted to get you and Alex to dress up like Native Americans again this year.  It went about the same as last year:

You still love to put your hands up when going over bridges:

You seemed to really like going down the slide this year . . . with either me or Aunt E of course:

You also walked over the rope bridge with my help of course!

And you did a great job climbing up the rope ladder:

But of course your favorite part about our trip to the Garden was the splash pad!

After we got you all dried off, of course mom tried to get some cute pictures of you on the flowers.  You of course were just not having it:

We went to Adriana's after the garden.  Somehow I didn't get any pictures of that :(  But you know the drill.  You and Alex split a pizza and Aunt E bought you a special birthday treat for dessert.  It was a wonderful day filled with lots of fun.

The next day we had your birthday party!  You absolutely LOVE The Polar Express.  So what if it was August, we were going to have a Polar Express birthday party for you anyway!  Mommy made you a Polar Express cake and cupcakes:

The whole family came over to celebrate.  You had a blast playing with your cousins all evening and you loved when everyone sang Happy Birthday to you:

And of course you LOVED eating the cake:

You weren't exactly thrilled with opening gifts.  You pretty much just wanted to play with the first one you got.  We pushed through though and you ended up loving everything you got:



After the party was over all your cousins got to take home a Polar Express Party Favor consisting of a train whistle, a bell, and peppermint stick and some other candy:

It was such a special weekend celebrating a very special little boy.  I love you so much my sweet Declan!  Here's to many, many more birthdays together!

Love,

Mom