Happy Birthday, Hewitt!

Two years old already?  We celebrated little Hew at school with a construction truck cupcake tower.  Look at that sweet smile from the birthday boy!

We are so glad to have you, Hewitt, and love you more each day!

The Birthday Party!

The day finally rrived!  The boys shared their 4th and 2nd birthday celebrations with a giant, carnival-esque birthday party.  Family, neighbors, and friends from school all came to eat and drink and play games and win prizes.  The kids all made goody bags and then played a few different kinds of carnival games to earn some valuable take-home treats!

What are we celebrating?  Some BIRTHDAYS!

Squirmy birthday boy picture #1 -- a bit better for seeing their faces

Squirmy birthday boy picture #2 -- a bit better for seeing their shirts

The spread -- nobody's going home hungry

The youngest (cousin Mallory, <1 and="and" elco="elco" grandmama="grandmama" mr.="mr." nell="nell" oldest="oldest" reat="reat" year="year">80 years) party guests

Let the games begin!

If your race car won its heat on the racetrack, you could choose a prize!

If you pulled a ducky out of the water, you could choose a prize!

If your bean bag toss landed on a plate, you could choose a prize!

Or you could just go dig through the prize buckets and take whatever looked good to you, like these hoodlums.  :)

Oh -- one of those hoodlums is a birthday boy -- carry on then!

And if none of those options were fun enough, you could always go play in the fort.

Keeping cool on a hot day -- must not have realized that there were actual drinks under all the ice :)

Found a juice box -- ahhh!

Catching up with his buddy from across the street, Mr. Elco

You're guaranteed a win when you're the only racer!

Hewie and some big boys

One excited birthday boy!

One birthday boy blowing out his candle

The other birthday boy blowing out his candle

Let's eat cake (outside!)!

Oh, yum

And then the gift-opening frenzy once the guests were gone :)

The Birthday Cakes

Grandmom helped us assemble the birthday cakes today!  We bought a few dozen cupcakes from the bakery (special order for particular colors of cake and icing) and then arranged them into the masterpieces below.  :)

Harrison's "4" Cake

Cupcakes in the shape of the number 4 with a race track and several race cars.

Hewitt's 2 Cake

Cupcakes in the shape of the number 2 with "dirt" and "rocks" and construction trucks.

The boys loved them -- thanks for the help, Grandmom!

Potty Training

Hewitt potty training his turtle, that is...

Happy Birthday, Harrison!

We had a mini-birthday party for Harrison's class today -- Cars-themed with cupcakes and a few racecars from Disney's Cars movie in the display.

Happy birthday, biggest boy -- we love you so much and are so grateful to have you!

A birthday snarl.  :)  His shirt says "Birthday boy!"

The cupcake tower

Now to build a track and have some races!

Vroom!

Dada built this!