happy birthday!

we had several birthday celebrations around here this weekend. mary's birthday was today and nicolas turned 2 on friday. we celebrated with him between work hours friday and after we wrapped up work around 6. he seemed to really like the idea of turning 2, and wanted to wear his mardi gras beads for his birthday after lunch.


in an effort to keep things simple, mary and i had gotten Nicolas a little ice cream cake with a couple candles, and converted his crib into a toddler bed for his present from us. he got a kick out of his new bed that was missing a railing, and he loved blowing out the candles on his cake, and then eating as much of the frosting as he could:

and then on saturday my parents came over with a whole new homemade (and much tastier) cake and tons of fun presents. but that's what are grandparents for, right? they got him some awesome stuff that he really loved:



later in the day my brother, his girlfriend marlena, and our good friend paul david joined us for a second (or I guess third) round of celebrating. Nicolas had so much fun spending time with everyone and entertaining them.

I'm uploading lots of short little movie clips from the weekend tonight, and will post them up here during the week for your viewing enjoyment.

tomorrow we visit the pediatrician for Nicolas' 2 year check-up. we told him about it tonight at dinner and all he could say was "no no no no no". we'll see how it goes.