I can't believe my "baby" is 2 already!! Grayson's birthday was yesterday, the 26th, and he had a very fun day! Last year we were in Arizona and didn't have any family to celebrate with, however we had wonderful friends able to share in his birthday. This year, my parents were visiting so he woke up on the morning of his birthday with a present to open. He was very excited about the trucks and "helped" Grandpa Sand put together the road for them to run on. However, the road is put together with links and he quickly figured out how to take them apart. Not sure Grandpa would say he was a help because of it. :) He was very excited to go to the store that morning to pick out his Elmo birthday balloon and after practicing throughout the day, he will now say "two" when you ask him how old he is.
I was very thankful to have my parents here this year for Grayson's birthday because it allowed me to get some things ready for his little party that evening. While Grandma and Grandpa took Grayson to the park to play before lunch, I was able to work on his birthday cake and get it decorated. When he got home and stood on the chair to see what I was doing on the counter, I got a huge grin because he saw his "Cars" cake. :) Made the headache of the cake experience worth it to see how excited he was about it!
We were also blessed to be able to have Will's Uncle Lou and Aunt Jayne come up from Jekyll Island to celebrate with us! They brought Grayson some puzzles for his birthday and he got to impress them with his skills at mastering puzzles. :) He loved the "Wee-Wee" puzzle that had a fire truck, police car, and ambulance that made sounds and had lights! However, when he woke up this morning and started doing the puzzle, he freaked out and ran away crying when it started making noise.
My friend Mel, and her two little girls, Shelby and Harley, came to celebrate Grayson's birthday as well. And Will's friend, Jake, who celebrated Christmas with us this year came too. Grayson LOVES Jake! Probably because Jake seems to bring him a cookie and a cool present when he comes! After dinner, Grayson had a grand time opening the rest of his presents! Of course Shelby and Harley wanted to help him open some, and poor Shelby (who is just a few months younger than Grayson) wanted so badly for the presents to be hers. :)
I made a "Cars" cake for him this year since he LOVES the movie and anything he sees with the cars. Any time he sees the movie at the library he always wants to get it and then he'll ask to watch it every day. Of course when he watches it, he'll only sit through about 30 min of it at a time, but could care less if he watched the same part over each time! Rather than trying to build a car out of cake like I had with his train last year, I borrowed an idea from a friend and put some cars characters on top of his cake. The cake was quite the ordeal and there's no way I would have gotten it done had my parents not been here! There were 3 trips to the store on Weds in order to get two layers of cake made after a failed attempt at making a cake from scratch that morning. Then the strawberry filling recipe I found in Real Simple ended up being very runny so my mom tried to thicken it with corn starch that night to see if it would work. Thurs morning I decided to throw out the strawberry filling idea and just went with cream cheese frosting and sliced strawberries for the layer. The decorating ended up being the easiest part out of the whole cake experience and I was able to get that done only because my parents were here to keep Grayson entertained! Despite the headache of it, everyone thought it was delicious and best of all Grayson loved his Cars cake! Will took the leftover cake to work this morning and said it was a big hit among his co-workers, even at 8:30 in the morning. :)
This morning Grayson was excited to come downstairs to play with his new toys. His favorite is probably his "Tow-Mater" truck from Jake! He waited all day for Daddy to get home so he could put the bubbles in it and take it outside! They are currently outside trying it out! Mommy raided her teaching supplies as well for some of his birthday presents and he had a fun time sorting his new bugs by color. It took a few times modeling how to sort them, but he quickly got the hang of it and started sorting the bugs on his own! He's doing great with colors too now and would say the colors of the bug he was sorting correct probably 80% of the time!
Grayson had a fun birthday and we wish we were able to share the experience with more family and friends! Hopefully, through the blog you were able to feel that you were there with us celebrating! Happy birthday to my little boy!!!
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