It's a PAW-TY!

We celebrated Avery's second birthday on the 9th this year. Shayne was able to come visit and we went to the children's museum and then had a Happy Meal, a NAP, cake and presents. It was fun this year. He got into it and enjoyed opening gifts, eating cake and playing with his new toys. He was like any other kid about clothes though. Just threw down the box and moved on to the next one. I, however, am very thankful for the clothes. He was limping along on hand-me-downs from his cousins (who are girls) and some strategically purchased Wal-Mart bargains. It was really fun to see him have such a good time and enjoy everything so much. It made all the horrible toy assembly and destroying of two cakes worth it. Below are some pics of our day.  

 1.) I sent invitations to the grandparents for a Skype party. They taped their dog ears to a headband and called us for the present opening. 2.) The set-up. 3.) Dog cake pops. They looked like they had the mange and there are about a thousand of them because I destroyed two cakes and was too stupid to throw away my $5.00 worth of ingredients and 30 minutes of time. I had to make way more work for myself than was necessary. 4.) Happy Birthday Avery banner. He has a serious balloon phobia, so I didn't want anything even remotely circular hanging around. 5.) Dogga cake. I am not a professional baker. I just love a boy who LOVES doggas. It tastes better than it looks. The bottom is vanilla cake with butter cream frosting. The dog face is chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and the ears are chocolate on chocolate. 6.) Dogga decoration/toy and Scooby snacks.

The first thing Avery saw when he came downstairs was the tricycle. Uncle Shayne came to town and got him this. He LOVED it! He calls it his 'doe-buh-doe-buh-doe'. He rode it ALL. DAY. LONG. We actually had to put it away so he would open his other presents.

1.) Grandparents Skyping in for the party! 2.) Cake!! 3.) Enjoying his very own can of Fresca! 4.) Another big hit! He LOVES to "drive drive." and cried when he had to get out to eat dinner. Maybe we should've had Sonic. 5.) New shoes and playing with the dogga. 6.)  Put his own ears on after cake. He was so proud of himself. 7.) Blowing out his candles. 8.) Driving us to the Children's Museum. 9.) Crashed before the paw-ty. Took a three hour nap and woke up reeeeaaaaaady tooo paaaaarrrrrrrrrrrtaaaaaaaaay!