Connor turned two today!!  Connor knew that too; he has been proudly saying “Two” whenever we and the teachers asked how old he is.  He seems to be learning his numbers, definitely knows one and two.  When he was playing in the car yesterday and mumbling to himself, Stuart even heard Connor said “one, two, three”.

     The birthday celebration starts at the afternoon snack at school.  I made the Oreo cupcakes again as it was a big hit for the kids, but I decided to make mini ones this time for the toddlers.  I brought them in right before snack time.  Logan happened to be in the courtyard playing, so he came into the toddler room with me.  Connor was so happy to see me, and was ready to go until I told him that it was cake time.  He sat down at the table along with all his classmates.  Logan must not felt comfortable sitting along with the little ones, so he rather returned to the yard to play than eating cupcakes.  The class sang the birthday song to Connor while he was looking a bit shocked but smiley.  I guess we had not taught Connor how to blow candles as he just stared at the candles when told to blow.  The teacher finally helped him out (I was filming), so we could move on to serve the cupcakes to the kids.  All the kids enjoyed the treat, and Connor even asked for seconds.  After cleaning up, we met up with Logan and left the school for the second half of the celebration.

    We picked Stuart up and went to our local Chuck E Cheese to let the boys play.  We decided to go there again as Logan had been asking about it lately.  The boys were excited, and immediately walked around and looked at the different games.  Logan was basically interested in the driving and shooting games only.  He actually could drive quite well in most games now.  Connor was happy just holding a token in his hand deciding where to deposit it.  We took a break for dinner; the boys were able to watch the big puppets and the TV show while we ate.  We played few more games afterward, then headed home for cake.  This time, we did give a quick lesson to Connor on how to blow a candle before Logan lead us in singing the birthday song.  We all enjoyed a small portion of our favorite ice cream chocolate cake.  Afterward, it was presents time.  Connor was in a roll opening all the presents, including the ones from grandparents and auntie/uncle.  He was so focused in opening the wrappers, then put all the papers into the trash can before he started paying attention to the toys.  Both Logan and Connor had fun playing with all the new toys, but Logan was whiny tonight, constantly asking us to play with him.  Logan must be tired of Connor getting all the attention lately. 

PS.  Logan came home from school the last two days with his shorts on backwards.  We think this happens as he changes from his water clothes to his regular outfit after outdoor play.  We will be focusing on teaching him back versus front this week.