More Birthday Celebration

[Something has been wrong with Blogger and its ability to upload videos for about 24 hours, so I'm going to publish these posts as-is. Cute videos to come sometime later.]

John has been celebrating his birthday for days! And the cute boy still seems clueless about what a birthday is or that he is "two"! His real birth day was hectic, so I didn't bake his cupcakes until the next day. He can get through opening only one or two gifts at a time, so four days later, he still has some gifts to open. Here you can see the balloon I bought him of his favorite cartoon character, Curious George. John described the balloon as: "Ah-ah!" [the sound of a monkey] [slurping sounds] "Cone!" [as in, ice cream cone]

John offering to share his precious new truck with Mary:

John kept pestering me as the cupcakes were cooling, so I banished him to the den while I decorated them, then I hid them. I was preparing dinner when I heard a distant, "Mmmm . . . mmmm . . . yum!" It took me some long seconds to figure out what I was hearing, then I bolted into the dining room where John had discovered the baked goods and dug through the frosting on two of them. I had to laugh because John simply doesn't know the rule that when you find hidden cupcakes, you're probably not supposed to eat them.

A big difference from his first birthday when he wouldn't eat any cake!