My birthday boy & his checks

Carter turned TWO yesterday! Hooray! It was a low-key, fun-filled day for my little guy.

Lots of pics to prove it...are you seated comfortably?

I got brave last Saturday and had Aaron turn Carter's crib into a toddler bed. No more crib for my big boy! I was so scared I would deeply regret this decision, but it's been okay so far. Carter absolutely loves his big boy bed!

Carter got some seriously big ($$) checks this year! Spoiled! I had fun spending them though ;)

He totally understood that whatever was in that envelope was his!

Hooray! He liked his card so much that he took it to the store with him later that day. Side note: Grammy Lunt gets nervous sending checks because she's afraid her grandchildren will have the same reaction that Aaron had when he was young...Aaron once got a check as a gift from someone and got pretty sad/upset because he thoughy it was a bill! No worries here though.

We've been practicing holding up two fingers for weeks now but it's still a difficult task for Carter to conquer on his own. He's concentrating quite hard to hold the right fingers up.

Carter started off his birthday right. I pretty much let him eat what he wanted. So, for breakfast: chex mix, raisins, fruit snacks, fudge covered chocolate chip granola bar and then filled in the gaps with milk.

So happy to be eating fruit snacks for breakfast!

For lunch: a few french fries, a little ketchup, some sprite, a dum dum sucker and then once again, topped it off with milk.

Olivia tried hard to convince Carter that it was okay to sit in Ronald's lap, but he wanted nothing to do with the clown!

He was just happy to keep his distance from the crazy dude.

My new desk top background :)

During Carter's nap time, Olivia and I were busy making his baseball birthday cupcakes.

Please tell me that you can see which two Olivia finished by herself!

Olivia then finished up all the wrapping.

Olivia is a pro at taping up every place where you might start to rip a present open. Carter somehow figured it out though.

When Carter woke up from his nap, he was ready to unwrap presents. Luckily I was able to hold him off until Aaron got home from work. Once Aaron walked through the door though, instead of running to Daddy for hugs (his normal routine), he ran straight to the presents and started to rip. It was a dash to get the camera ready because there was no holding him back!

Figuring out Olivia's tape jobs.

Enjoying more presents~

I know most of you are thinking, "an umbrella and sunglasses for a two year-old?" Well, he loves anything his older sister has and to pull him away from all things pink, he gets his own...sunglasses and umbrella.

Nothing pink about these bad boys...boxer brief's! He's supposed to be showing his muscles, but instead all I see is a Buddha belly!

Where's your bum Carter?

This is Olivia's card that she made for him... so cute!

Oh and don't forget dinner: only cold icecream and a cupcake! And milk! We all sat down to eat dinner and he would have nothing to do with it...just kept pointing to the cupcakes on the counter. Oh well.

He finished off his birthday by doing cannon balls with Daddy in the neighbors pool.

Happy Birthday Buddy!