Eee Eee Ooo Ooo! Our Little Monkey turned 2!!

Alton turned 2 this month!  Can't believe what a big boy he's turning into:)  He moved into the 2 year old room at daycare last week.  Since he's moved into the new bigger room he's been starting to talk more:)  Might be a peer motivation thing.  Whatever it is, I'm happy about it!  He loves cars, tractors and anything with wheels that he can push around.   He's still a daddy's boy and is smitten with his daddy!  He loves mama, sissy and Amber too but we all turn invisible when daddy gets home from work and Alton sprints to the door to meet him and is glued to his side for the rest of the evening.  It's adorable to watch:) 
Alton's favorite foods are fruit, cheese and any kind of meat!  I can't get him to eat a single vegetable.  Not even corn on the cob which barely even qualifies as a vegetable.  Just last week we stopped giving him bedtime bottles and it was sad for me.  Bed time bottle routine is one of the only times that he sits still and lets you cuddle him.  We kept up his bedtime bottle until he turned 2 as part of the bonding process, just like we did with Athena. 

Here is a picture of him on his actual birthday morning:)  Looking handsome as usual!

His monkey cupcakes that mommy and Athena made.

He thought they were pretty delicious.  He mostly just licked the frosting off of his though because he loved all of the food we made for his party and he just ate and ate and was pretty stuffed at this point.  We had all his favorite foods-fruit salad, home made macaroni and cheese and brats. 

Him and daddy headed out the morning of his party to pick out some balloons and came home with this huge monkey balloon:)

This isn't the best picture, but the look on his face is hilarious. "Aww Yeeeahh.  You know I'm gonna look handsome in this;)"  He really likes clothes and each shirt he got he held it up to himself like this to show it off:) 

Trying on his new hot red car puddle boots. 

Very serious about his gift opening. 

He LOVED the car he got from Athena.  She picked it out for him by herself. 

He was pretty excited for the new John Deer wagon he got to go with his tractor too:)
Happy Birthday  Alton!!!!

Pancake art and a snowman:)

Athena and John had a great time building a snowman this morning.    She's been wanting to make a snowman for weeks now, but we just haven't had any decent snow on a weekend when there was time to go outside and build one.  With the snowstorm yesterday there was plenty of wet, thick packable snow today.  The snowman turned out so cute!

When I came outside to take a picture of them I brought Alton along and stuck him in for a picture:) 

Isn't it the cutest?  The eyes are charred chunks of wood from the outdoor fireplace.   The  arms are cat tails and the nose is a great big carrot.  We've had so many deer in the yard again lately, we're curious to see if the carrot is going to still be there tomorrow morning!

The father daughter snowman building team. 

We also had some fun today doing pancake art for breakfast.  Ena LOVES doing this.  I make a batch of home made pancake batter and we dye some of it different colors.  I put the colored batters into these piping bottles and let Athena 'draw' pictures on the griddle with the batter.  I didn't get any action pictures of her doing it though because I'm always busy hovering over her making sure she doesn't touch her arms to the griddle as she's drawing. 

Check out her flower pancake creation!  She was very proud of it and ate the entire thing!  It was pretty huge!  She also made some Packer colored footballs for daddy and Alton.