IV’s Birthday Bash

I really need to update on our fantastic three-week trip to Maryland.  We had a BLAST and I wouldn’t have minded staying longer. 

IV and I flew back Thursday the 31st of March.  Then on Saturday we had a combined Birthday party for IV, my nephew, and my SIL, and Easter Bash.  Crazy.  So we’re starting with that Saturday, April the 2nd. 

The day started off with a trip to Village Inn for our breakfast.  IV LOVES playing on the I-Pad and I like to eat at a restaurant sitting down.  It’s a win-win.  We got many comments on the I-Pad, from people commenting they’d like one for a toy as well, or from those who had no idea what he was playing with and were in total shock.  Someone even called it our “mini-computer”. 

I made the party cupcakes and I LOVE the way they turned out. 

To celebrate Easter we had quite the egg hunt.  Each child had to find 20 eggs apiece that had their names on them.  We try to make it so that the age of the child dictates how hard it will be to find them and boy does this work!  At the end all the young kids have found theirs while the oldest three are still left searching! Ha! 

Some eggs stuck to the window.  It makes me laugh how sometimes the most obvious are the hardest to find.

One under the table.

My husband is currently installing sprinklers at my parents’ house (while he is trying to finish his master’s thesis) and so he took one of the pipes, stuck it in the ground and taped an egg to the top. 

Here’s the crew about to start the hunt.

I REALLY wish I had pictures of IV opening his presents, but I don’t.  We start our children young and he got his first gun.  It’s a squirt gun and was purposefully bought to poke fun at my older siblings.  Many of them cried the horrors of letting kids play with pretend guns, until they too found their kids turning EVERYthing into a weapon.  Now it’s free game for all of them. 

His favorite toy (at the time) was surprisingly his Elmo doll.  He hugged it, gave it a kiss, called it “Elmo” (quite clearly) and then proceeded to run around flailing the doll with excitement. 

As we were driving home that night my husband decided to make a quick run to the computer store.  Still suffering jet-lag from our Maryland trip two days earlier and completely worn out from the partying, our son was out cold. 

He practically never sleeps anywhere other than his crib so to see him out while we were shopping was quite humorous to me. 

I sure love that cutie-pie 2-year-old!