2 Years Old!!

Holy cow, we are officially parents to three 2 year olds!

I took this video through tears- it was their last night playing as one year olds. I don't know why it's so hard for me to deal with them growing older. I do just fine on their actual birthday, but the night before I'm such a mess! I spent far longer than normal saying goodnight to my one year olds for the last time. I am excited to see them grow up, but man- is it hard to say goodbye to the baby years!

 It seems very fitting that our outside-loving boys were born on the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. That gives us extra time to spoil them! The boys were greeted in the morning with balloons and streamers at their door (something I remember my parents doing for us when we were kids)- they LOVED the balloons and promptly tore down all the streamers.

We cashed in our free zoo membership that my VUMC colleagues gifted us when I left, and took the boys to the zoo for the first time. Aunt Cari joined us, and we had a lot of fun, despite it being extremely H-O-T outside. We will definitely look forward to going back many times over the coming year, and doing a better job of planning ahead and packing a lunch so we can stay longer!

Cari watched the boys while they napped so Will and I could take advantage of the one nice day we were supposed to have this week and enjoy a celebratory day date. We took our our paddle board and kayak out on the lake for a bit and reminisced about how much our lives have changed in just 2 short years!

After the boys woke up, we hosted an impromptu birthday BBQ in the backyard- hotdogs and cake for our favorite 2 year olds!

Action shot of Griffin touching his hot candle- oops! Fortunately he was OK- nothing a couple presents couldn't fix!

Cooper loves cake, especially the icing!

Griffin isn't a huge fan of sweets- he can take them or leave them

Will devoured his piece and then spent the rest of the time trying to eat his brothers' shares!

We are having Will's family over on Sunday so they can open all their presents, but we did let them open a couple from us last night. Just what any 2 year old boy could want- they got new trucks! They love the Little Blue Truck book series, and were very excited to have plush trucks that they can take to bed with them at night. After cake and presents we gave them baths and then let them stay up a little later so they could play with their new trucks. Overall, I think it was a perfect day in the eyes of our new 2 year old boys!

Their little blue trucks came equipped with horns that beep. We joked that we would hear the "beep beep" on the monitor each morning now and would definitely know when they were awake. Sure enough, this morning we heard "beep beep" on the monitor around 7:45. :)