Happy Birthday Garrett!

Yesterday was Garrett's 2nd birthday! I think this year has flown by and it is crazy. Yesterday we did a few of his favorite things to help him have a fun day. When both the kids were up we went and got donuts, I have passed along my love of donuts to the kids. There is a new donut place right by our house and I am hoping we will not be tempted to many times. Luckily I still don't think they are my favorites so it shouldn't be to hard to pass them by. Garrett inhaled his donuts and was in heaven to have them for breakfast.

We headed to the Zoo that morning, off to see the animals. Garrett loves animals and so we thought that he would enjoy going to the zoo for his birthday.

We had the perfect day to go, nice and cool weather and there weren't to many school groups.

The bears were being really play full and running around chasing each other. The kids thought that was fun and they laughed pretty hard at them. They bears swam in the water and wrestled around.

After the zoo we stopped by to see JJ at work. We literally stopped by to say hi and so he could see the kids. JJ was sad that he wasn't going to get to spend much time with Garrett on his birthday, luckily he is small and doesn't know any different. We came home and had lunch and we watched the video of when Garrett was born. It was so fun to watch and look back and remember all that happened and how things were. Lucy was so small and it was cute to hear her little voice. Garrett enjoyed seeing himself as a baby , he loves babies. Garrett took a nice nap and then when he got up we went over to the apartment complex by our neighborhood to feed the ducks. Garrett and Lucy both love this and they were excited to feed them some bread.

After feeding the ducks we came home home and had dinner together as a family. After dinner we cleaned up and had cake and ice cream. I kept his cake simple this year. He loves ball's and so I did a basketball. He loved it and kept saying "basketball!" He could really care less what kind of cake he has, as long as he gets some.

He loved watching JJ light the candles. He also enjoyed us singing to him, he just kinda looked around at us and took it all in.

He was excited to blow out the candles and knew exactly when to do it and what to do! How fun!

Best part of all was eating it, he was so excited to eat the cake and ice cream.

We then opened some gift and the kids enjoyed playing with them all together. I think Lucy is having a hard time with Garrett's birthday. She didn't get any presents, but we had to explain to her that it isn't her birthday and when her birthday comes she will get presents and Garrett wont. I have been reminding her all day that they are his toys but he is doing a good job sharing.

We had a fun day celebrating his birthday. Happy Birthday Garrett!