TWO!!!

Mommy and Daddy have been asking for a couple of weeks how old I'll be on my birthday. I wasn't quite sure what a birthday is, but I was supposed to say "two" whenever they asked, so I did. Well, I finally had my birthday on Saturday and apparently birthdays are really cool. The day was all about me! I got lots of new toys and I got to eat cake for dinner!

The first present I opened was three new cars! And not just any cars: two different Lightning McQueen cars and a Dinoco car! (See posting My New Obsession Part 2 )



The Dolans came over for dinner and to help celebrate. Here's my friend Makayla watching me open my presents.



Of course, Daddy shouldn't have let me open the cars first, because that was all I wanted to play with.



Check out the cool wrapping paper on the presents from Grandma and Grandpa de Jong: It's CARS!!!! That's my friend Karissa helping me open them.

And here are the cars again!


I also got a giant dump truck from Grandma and Grandpa Johnson, a magnetic doodle pad, a tool cart with lots of tools just like Daddy, and some t-shirts (including a Lightning McQueen shirt!!!) and a remote control car from Grandma and Grandpa de Jong.

Then came the cake! Guess what it was....



CARS!!!!

Besides the Lightning McQueen car on top, the best part was the frosting!!!

Want some???

Later on I discovered that the cake had been left out on the counter AND a chair had been left by it. Easy access.

Like I said, the frosting was the best part.

So now I'm two. I've heard something about two being terrible...but I'm not sure what that's all about. So far I think being two is great!

Cooper's Memorial

Mommy and Daddy ordered Cooper's memorial and it was placed on his grave Tuesday. We got to see it for the first time today.



I thought the memorial was really nice, but there were other things nearby that I found more interesting.



These balloons were so cool. No matter how many times I punched them, they kept popping back up into the air. Daddy had to fix some flowers that got a little trampled while I was boxing the balloons.

These other balloons actually got the better of me and tangled my feet in their strings.

Look what I discovered....

POCKETS!!!

Halloween!!!

I know, this post is about a week overdue, but things have been a little hectic around here lately.

First, let me say that I LOVE Halloween!!! Did you know that at night, you get to go out in the dark with your Dad and a flashlight and knock on your neighbors' doors and ask for candy and they actually give it to you???!!!!

I was an elephant for Halloween. And so was my friend Amelia. She and my friend Hayden came over to go trick-or-treating that night (apparently that's what you're supposed to say--"trick-or-treat" when you want candy from your neighbors. It worked so well that night that I'll have to give it a try again soon). Mommy tried to get pictures of us altogether, but she wanted us to just stand there. Who was she kidding? We were all so excited, there was no way we were going to stand still. So instead, we ran circles around and around the kitchen and family room and living room.

This is what Mommy got:

Can you see me in the bottom left hand corner?

This is a better shot of me on the run:


And here's Amelia and Hayden:

Getting ready to head out:

Check out my stash! I was allowed to eat anything I wanted in one sitting! Daddy thought the candy was his too since he's the one who took me out. I decided to be nice and share.

Unfortunately, my bag ripped TWICE while I was trick-or-treating.

And Mommy forgot to change my diaper before we left, so this is what my pants looked like when we got back:

But I didn't even notice. I was too busy eating my candy. I didn't finish my candy that night--there was still a lot left. But somehow it has mysteriously disappeared....

Did you know....

...that a pumkin has stuff inside of it???!!!!

And when a spoon won't get all of it out, you can reach in with your bare hands!

And the stuff inside is SLIMY!!!!


And fun to throw around.

Which is what I did with it. I was just copying Daddy. He threw a little slime at Mommy, so then I threw a little slime at Mommy. And a little more slime, and a few seeds, and then I just started chucking it all over the kitchen. Daddy thought it was funny, so I kept throwing. I had to pick up some of the seeds afterward. Guess who ended up mopping the floor? (If you guessed Daddy, since he was the one who started it, you're wrong.)

After we pulled all of the gunk out of it, Daddy used a knife to cut holes in the pumpkin that made it look like a face. My favorite part was the little lid. It's like a puzzle piece.

In this picture I was doing my "big smile" (see posting Fun pictures ), but Mommy took the picture too late and I was already done:

We didn't clean out and cut up Cooper's pumpkin, but Mommy drew a face on it and we left it for him at the cemetery.




Since Cooper won't be able to go trick-or-treating, Daddy left him some candy with his pumpkin.

Pumpkins and Mazes

Mommy and Daddy took me to this really cool place. There were lots of pumpkins and a path that had really tall plants growing around it and trucks!

Look out how big this truck is!!!!

We rode a tractor around a bunch of pumpkins. I love tractors, but I wasn't sure what to think about riding on one.

Then we went on the path surrounded by lots of tall plants. Mommy and Daddy called it a corn maze. I started out on Daddy's shoulders. Apparently it's really easy to get lost because the corn is so tall. It made me a little nervous.

Then I got the hang of it. Basically you just need to run everywhere and you'll never get lost.

Mommy and Daddy are slow pokes. They had a hard time keeping up.

There was a really cool tunnel in the middle of the maze. Daddy went through it with me the first time. The second time I tried to hang out in the middle by myself, but these other kids kept trying to get in too. So I finally had to just leave.

After the maze we ate some food--yummy French fries, something sweet called a Funnel Cake, and strawberry lemonade. Then we went to pick out a pumpkin in a field that had millions of them everywhere!

I tried to pick one up, but it was just way too heavy. Next year I'm sure I'll be stronger.

We picked out one for me, and one for Cooper.


Here was one of the best parts of our trip:

I can't wait to do this again next year!