Happy Birthday Elliott!

How is it that another year goes by so quickly. This is my true reason for blogging, because I'm REALLY bad at keeping up with the cute stuff my kids do and say, so now I can write it on here and will have it to remember! I LOVE the time between the first and second year. It's so cute and so amazing how much they change in one year! So here goes Elliott's second year:

• He went from crawling at 12 months to only running by 2
• He went from 2 teeth at 12 months to finally getting them all by 2
• He stayed really huge. That didn't change.
• He went from my sweet little laid back boy to wild as a buck in a matter of minutes
• He went from having like 2 words at 12 months (I really don't even think he was say Mama) to a full blown vocabulary and will talk your ears off
• He went from sweet little baby toys to dinosaurs in one fail swoop. Missing all the toddlers toys like trains and balls and tractors. Thanks to a paleontologist for a brother. Well he still likes balls a little.
• He still cries every time we drop him off at church or school. Some things just don't change.
• And he still has very little hair. The "first hair cut" bullet point will have to come on his big moments next year.
• He is really quite a comedian and loves to make us laugh
• And last but not least, he is the cutest thing you have ever seen, and now we get asked more and more if he and Maxwell are twins. What?!

So Elliott's second birthday was, well, pretty much just like his first birthday party. That's what happens when you are born 10 days after Christmas. But he had fun and that's what counts. He got cake and presents and lots of love. The end.



 

 My cousin Kristin has a little company called Sweet Petits and she makes these awesome cake balls. And I have done them now as party favors for many a birthday party. Mainly for the sake of the parents! They are the best!

 Our entertainment was punching balloons. The kids loved them! And they cost around $4 total. Seriously cheap fun.

 

 And yes, the other entertainment was New Years paraphernalia!

 

 

 Elliott and his cousin Wells blowing their horns

 

 

Maxwell insists it isn't a birthday party without the party hat.

I love this picture. My mom and one of her best friends all growing up had me and her daughter Rachel around the same time. And now our boys are the same age. So we have pictures of all of us at each other's birthday parties. How fun!