Emmett is Two!

We just got home a few days ago from a wonderful trip to Florida!  I have a post or two about our trip in the works, but first I wanted to share some pictures from Emmett's birthday celebration a few weeks ago.  We had a low-key little get-together with just a few other families who also had two-year-olds.  We had planned on having everyone play outside, but unfortunately it was raining, so the kiddos had to find things to do inside.  We had a quick little Easter egg hunt at the beginning, and then everyone got busy playing with toys and having a fun time.  Here is Emmett right as everyone arrived - not wanting me to take his picture.  Is it just our boys, or do kids somehow know that they're turning two and start acting extra stinkerish right away??

 

 

Playing tray tug-of-war with D...

 

Sweet little Reid slept through most of the commotion...

 

Little boys devouring M&M's out of the Easter eggs...

Kiddos eating dinner...

I made our favorite chocolate cake but didn't put any effort into decorating it (sorry E!).  Those are Thomas and Percy bath toys that I just plunked on top.  :)

We attempted a family picture at the end of the evening.  This one was the best, but look at Jackson!  Stinker!!

This was the winner...

Emmett LOVES all of his new toys!  Thank you to all who sent such great gifts.  Jackson loves Emmett's toys, too, as well as the un-birthday gifts he received.  :)

 

My friend Michelle got E a stroller, since that is the first toy he runs to any time we go to her house.  She opted for getting a Woody doll for E to push around in the stroller, instead of a baby.  :) He loves it.

Then Mom got silly and tried to put our real baby in the stroller.  You can see that it didn't go over well with Reid...

These aren't from Emmett's birthday, but are just some cute pics of J and R...

And here's J riding one his and E's favorite gifts... a toy motorcycle!  They zoom all over the house on that thing.

 

Oh, how we love our Emmett-Bear.  Phil and I always say that we alternate between being incredibly frustrated with him and wanting to totally eat him up.  He has such a little personality, even though he's still not saying words yet.  We just love all of the funny faces he makes, the bent-knee little dances he does to his favorite TV show and whenever he's really excited, the sounds he makes when he's trying to tell us something or get what he wants, the toothy grins he gives to show off all of the teeth he's just recently gotten, and sometimes even his little frustrated fits of rage.  :)  He is so adventurous and daring and is a total tough guy... getting hurt almost doesn't phase him and he'll try almost anything.  We love his fat baby feet and his chubby cheeks and his big brown eyes and thick lashes and his dimples and his chubby thunder-thighs that we see every night when he runs around naked before baths (his ultimate favorite thing).  He knows all of his letters and can say most of the sounds they make, so we're hoping that it's just a matter of time before he starts talking.  We can't wait to hear all that he has to say!  We love you, Emmett!!