The Terrific Two's!

Everyone calls it the "Terrible Two's" but I thought I would psych myself out and call it the "Terrific Twos!!". Davis turned 2 years old on November 20, 2009. I can hardly believe that 2 years have passed since he entered the world. I look back at pictures and can barely remember him being that small. He is now 35.5" tall, almost 24 lbs, and has boundless energy.

Greg and I took his birthday off to celebrate with him. We woke him up singing "Happy Birthday", which he then said the rest of the day in this British accent..."HAPPY BUTHDAAAAAY!!". Too funny. Here he is holding up his 2 fingers to signify how old he is, the deuce as daddy calls it.

We surprised him with a train table, which he spent most of the day playing with. He loves his "shoo shoo" trains, as he calls them.

We surprised Davis with a haircut before we headed out to lunch. He hasn't had a haircut in forever, so it was way overdue.  His hair went from looking like a bowl on his head to an actual little boy's haircut.  He was THRILLED to get his haircut, see:

We went to Ted's Montana Grill for lunch and had fun playing around while we waited for our burgers (delish!).

New 'Do!

We made him horns out of the bendy toy they gave us to play with.

After lunch, we played outside in the leaves at Triangle Town Center. This was the picture we used for our Christmas cards. We were going to do a family portrait but Greg took this on his iPhone and suggested using it instead - I loved it! It completely captured how happy he was at that moment, sheer and utter joy.

On Saturday, we had Davis's birthday party. We started the fun at the Wake Forest Fire Department. Our friend from church, Bill Wandrack, works at the Fire Station and was nice enough to have us come by and show all the kids the firetrucks. He also gave out hats, keychains and erasers to all the kids.  It was a blast. Davis was a bit apprehensive at first because he had just woken up from his nap. But after a while he finally got into it and wore his firehat and even sat up in one of the fire engines for a picture!

Afterwards, everyone came back to our house for red velvet cupcakes and to open Davis's gifts. We then let all the kids outside to play with toys in the yard and Davis decides to run up our hill in the backyard into our neighbor's yard, then back down the hill. Again, with a look of sheer and utter joy on his face. What a perfect way to end a perfect birthday.