Birthday Pictures: Part One

Well, here it is. As promised. Finally.

Sam had a mini-pre-party at Gramma and Grampa's a week or so before he actually turned two. I went all out on the cake:
Here he is with his Aunty: (I love this photo.)
Opening presents: (Check out Ben. He was having a hard time that day with waiting and with the fact that Sam had more presents than him. Good thing Gramma always remembers the two non-birthday boys.)
Opening his present from Aunty Melissa and Uncle Johnny and Noah:
Looking at his present from Gramma and Grampa:
I couldn't decide which picture I liked better so you get both:
Watching Aunty open his present:
Making music with his present from Aunty:
Mike and Johnny throwing plastic parachuting men from the garage: (They will use almost any excuse to climb up there.)
Blowing out his candles:
Looks like store bought cake does as good a job at getting the birthday boy dirty as a homemade cake: (And it actually worked out to be cheaper because Gramma bought it!)
Noah chowing down:
Sam cleaning up after the party:
So there it is. Sam's birthday extravaganza. It was nice to have a celebration with the family. Gramma Braun was there too, she brought a train whistle for Sam, which was fab for me because we already had ONE that the boys fought over all the time. Now they can be trains together.

I still have a birthday project in the works for Sam, but that will have to wait for another time, because of something I'm waiting for that should have shown up in the mail almost two months ago. I called to complain and they assured me it would be only five more days, which was Thursday. I'll probably have to phone again. It may be next year when I finally finish up with Sam's birthday!