Happy 2nd Birthday, Cole!

Okay, so yesterday (the 29th) was really Cole's birthday.  But since it was a Sunday and since Cole didn't care, we decided to celebrate today.  (Side note: this did not confuse or bother Cole.  It did, however, confuse and bother his brothers.  If we ever do something like this again I'm just gonna lie about the date of the birthday.  Sheesh.)

Before we get to the real birthday festivities, here are a few shots of Cole from dinner last night.  As you can see, Cole LOVES spaghetti and meatballs.  I'm the world's nicest mom and made it especially for him. 

As you can see, eating spaghetti is serious business around our house.

Oh man, just look at that face.  Lance and I figure he could be an Oompa Loompa (spelling?) for Halloween this year.  All we'd have to do is feed him spaghetti for dinner and then add a little green jell-o and gel to his hair.

Cole decided it would be a good idea to spit water.  Right when I was taking the picture.

Pouting because the world's meanest mother took his water away.  I'm such a jerk.

All is forgiven - by both sides.  Couldn't you just eat him up?

I think this picture (literally) says it all!

 

Cole loves to be outside any chance he can get, so we decided to go to Columbian Park today with our friends the Souths.  (Side note: the Souths are our random holiday friends.  It started with just Halloween, and then progressed to 4th of July, Easter, New Year's Eve, and now Memorial Day.  I'm sure that pretty soon we'll start celebrating President's Day, Arbor Day, and St. Patrick's Day with them as well.) ((Misty, that would be awesome!))

Of course the first thing the boys did was play in the water fountains at the zoo.  

 

 

 

It was a really hot and muggy day, so seeing the animals was pretty secondary for the kiddos.  We played at the playground for a while, and I was impressed at Cole's bravery in going down even the biggest slide all by himself.  Then I felt pretty stupid because I had gone up with him and he didn't wait for me and I had to go down by myself.

This is the only shot of the birthday boy I got at the park.

We finished our trip to the park with a ride on the train.  Cole loves trains, and while he wasn't as quite as excited as I thought he would be, he seemed to like it.

Then we headed back to our house for a barbecue and birthday cake. Cole also loves hotdogs, so we had plenty of those, plus brats and Italian sausages for the grown ups.  We could have been traditional and picnicked outside, but we opted for the comfort of our igloo-like basement instead.

It was finally time for cake and ice cream.  Except the birthday boy had other plans - just wanted to play on his carputer.

Nice, Cole.  But as you can see in the video we went through with the whole song and candle and such.  I love the look on his face it's something like "What in the world are all you crazies up to?"  Obviously I failed to coach him enough in the candle blowing department!

Well, here's where a mom usually makes a huge list of things about the birthday boy, but I think this blog has covered most of them already.  So here are just a few things you might not already know:

• Cole already knows most of his letters.  Yesterday at church he was pointing them out in the Spiderman activity book he was looking at - and he was getting them all right.  Amazing.  (I can't take any credit for it; I'm pretty sure he learned it all from the carputer.)
• Cole has rhythm.  When he dinks around on the piano I often think it's Spencer because even though it's not real music, it sounds like more than just banging the keys.  It's pretty impressive; maybe we have a little virtuoso on our hands!
• Cole has started to like Tess.  He even comes up to her now and says in a really cute voice "Oh, hi Tess!"
• If you ask Cole a question 99.99% of the time he will answer "No."  To me, that's the very definition of a two year old!

We sure love you, Cole, and are so happy you're a part of our family!