happy november birthdays...

Steve and Henry get the privilege of both celebrating their birthdays in November, right away, within 5 days of each other.  So lots of birthday celebrating for us right away in November!  Henry gets to steal the show being that he showed up before his dadda's birthday.

(and also because he turned 2, and when you are 2 you pretty much steal the show anywhere!)

 For Henry's 2nd birthday, all of Steve's side of the family came over for pizza and cupcakes.  Auntie Christy and the girls came over early in the afternoon to play and help out, so I asked if Christy would make the cupcakes with the birthday boy while I finished up a few other things.  H thought he was such big stuff, especially when I shoo-d away siblings and cousins who wanted to take over.  They turned out great, and the rest of the clan joined us for a pizza supper.  Lots of fun and laughter and eating, and we carried it right into opening some gifts.

 We always do the "want, need. wear and read" gifts with our kids, trying to keep things simpler.  So for Henry's gifts from us (cute tags colored by Grace and Greta), he got Daniel Tiger plush toys (want, HUGE Daniel Tiger fan right now!), socks (need), a fleece that matched his brothers' (wear), and Gladys Goes Out to Lunch (read).

He got some great books and a new game from his grandparents, and we could start to sense a theme as they were all monkey-related!

 Boxes are still the best when you are two...

and because he was jumping and wiggling in almost every photo we took while he was opening gifts, we thought we would take a video instead!

Happy Birthday big boy!!!  We love the joy and laughter you bring to our lives!

(and the sugar from the cupcakes must have been a bit much, because at 10pm he was still wide awake.  since it was his birthday, some extra snuggles and books from auntie Melanie and Aahma B were just the thing to settle him back down)

Now for Steve's birthday!!!!  Of which there was going to be not much celebrating on the day since he had to work the late shift which meant not getting home until almost bedtime.  We planned on supper and gifts the next night, but the kids and I hoped to squeeze in a little fun in the morning (which is hard before school!).

But Henry was up at 6am (WAY too early for my kids), so I was able to make cinnamon roll coffee cake, and when the kids got up at 7am, I had them make cards, so we were able to have cards and birthday "cake" for breakfast!

Happy Birthday Steve/Dadda!  We love you so very much!!!  

Thanks for being the best. =)