Ahhhhhhhh the joys of being almost two and being able to blow out your own candle! We celebrated Elijah's 2nd birthday today as we are going to be away next week on his real birthday. Woody and I provided the birthday lunch (cooked it at our house and took it over to theirs) and Nathan and Kathy provided the birthday cupcakes. Earlier in the morning, Woody took care of the neighbor grandchildren while Kathy and Nathan went for Kathy's OB appointment. While he was doing that I got a chicken ready to roast and into the oven. Later we steamed a veggie assortment and we also had a cucumber jello salad...all menu items seemed to be a hit. Even Joy (who is "known" as a picky eater) mentioned to her mommy that she wasn't a picky eater today! After we sang "Happy Birthday" and ate cupcakes, we headed in to watch Elijah open up his presents.
This is the quilted play mat that I made for Elijah to play with his much loved toy cars and "big trucks" and take a nap under if he so desires. We gave him three new small "big trucks" to play with on the mat...he carried them around with him just about the rest of the time (even when we went outside)...and he didn't want any other cars or trucks on the play mat other than the new ones...he let know that in no uncertain terms! After the inside festivities, the birthday activities headed outside to try out his new "slip and slide" that his siblings gave him. All the children enjoyed that! But, we only have two real daredevils in the group...Graham and Joy are the only ones who really slipped and slid...the others go down it much slower...like at a crawling pace! After Elijah had played in the water for a while, Nathan came out having finished making the present that he and Kathy gave him...a pair of stilts just his size. He tried them on and walked on them for a bit holding on to his daddy's hand. Wonder how long till he will be heading off on his own on them?!
While I was out taking pictures of the water fun, Woody came in and cleaned up the lunch cooking mess in our kitchen. He walked six miles early this morning. This afternoon he has been doing some of his laundry...perhaps he's getting ready for a trip? Guess I will have to start thinking about packing soon. Woody got his "orders" (times for his scans, MRI, etc.) in the mail today...he never looks at those...just hands the envelopes to me! I put them in the file organizer that NIH gave us the first time that we went...and put that on top of one of the bags that goes with us to NIH...so guess I have started packing! After the party, I went back to my sewing and completed a baby gift that I had been working on. It has been a busy first day of July!
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