Hayden's Second Birthday Party

On Saturday about 30 of our friends and family gathered to celebrate Hayden's second birthday. He had a great day and was so excited that his friends and cousins were coming over to play. The kids had a good time decorating their pumpkins and most of the little ones were actually able to participate this year. Amazing how much they all grow in a years time. Hayden had fun ripping into his gifts and blowing out the candles on his cake. The cake was the hit of the party which was quite different than last years cake. Hayden loved his monkey cake as did I. I actually hated to cut into it since it looked so good. This year we decided to have the kids dress in their Halloween costumes and we couldn't get Hayden to take his off. He loves dressing up in his giraffe costume and we could only convince him to take it off by letting him eat his cake. He has been practicing blowing out the candles for weeks now and loves to have the birthday song sang to him and a week before and even now days after he still requests candles and so we sing and he blows. This year Hayden helped me fill up pumpkin buckets for all his younger guests and he handed them out as he guests went home. We hope to have many more years of birthday celebrations and hope they all are as much of a success as this one was.