Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Happy Birthday Baby!

Michael turned the "Terrific Two" on Sunday, May 3rd - but we celebrated his birthday on May 4th. I know nasty trick right? He didn't know the difference. We had our friends the Paulsens and Henstroms over for a BBQ and birthday cake.


Here's Michael with his favorite little friend, Matthew Paulsen. Michael calls him "Baby." They can really get each other laughing! It's so much fun to watch!


When we started signing "Happy Birthday" to Michael, I don't think he got we what we were doing. He almost looked mad that we were signing to him and he had a birthday cake with burning candles on it.



But when it came time to blow out the candles, he knew exactly what to do and he even clapped for himself after he blew out both candles!


Michael's way of eating ice cream: first pick up the ice cream with your hand and then put it on the spoon, and eat.


Or...forget the spoon all together and just eat it with your hands! Yummy ice cream!

Michael got a lot of great gifts, but his favorite was an "old school" cash register from Fisher Price. He played with it for a long time before we could get him in bed. You can't see it in the picture, but his chin and shirt were covered with drool! He drools when he is really concentrating and/or enjoying something that he's doing or playing with.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's how I eat ice cream.

I love the old school toys. Good find!

MKMT said...

Happy Birthday Michael! He is just adorable. So glad to claim him as a relation!

Jen said...

What a cutie he is Nikole. What do you do, beat your kids?? Those owies made me hurt. :-) I love Michael's language. He is such a cute little moosh ball!! Happy Birthday to him.

Natty said...

hey its your cousin Natalie, I just found you and Mandy's blog on my sister's.
Your kids are so dang cute. I love the thomas the train cake,, my son would LOVE that