Damon is Two!

Damon's second birthday was yesterday.  He had fun opening and playing with presents.  Poor kid didn't have a real exciting day because he had a pretty sick momma.  But we took him to the zoo today to make up for it.

Damon loved his Mickey Mouse blanket from Grandma and Grandpa Burgess.

He gave it a big hug when he got it out of the paper.

He also loved his singing Mickey Mouse card from Grandma and Grandpa Webb.  It sings the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themesong.  He played with it for a long time.  I think from now on we might just buy all of our kids a singing card for their birthdays.  They seem to like them as much as any present.

He also got two Thomas trains, one from us and one from Grandma/pa Burgess.

We got Damon a trampoline for his birthday.  (Grandma and Grandpa Webb contributed as their present to him.)  This is not something we would normally buy for a birthday since it is a big purchase.  But ours died a while back and our kids have really missed it.  We have been intending to replace it.  We didn't really know what to get Damon for his birthday and he jumps on everything, so this seemed to be a great time to get one.  He was too small to ever enjoy the other one we had.  You can see that he was really excited.

Kelton wanted in on the camera action.  Such a cute little face.  :)

I had what I would call my first ever cake catastrophe.  First of all it is kind of hard to have a steady hand when you are sick and shaky.  But I can't blame it on that.  Everything was going just fine until I tried to put my frozen buttercream transfers on.  They would not work.  The "2" was really big and not in a nice solid piece (like the picture of Mickey) and I was afraid that was going to be a problem.  Actually it would have been fine, except that I think my frosting consistency was wrong.  I think it wasn't stiff enough.  It made it really easy to fill in the transfer, but made it really difficult for it to freeze hard enough to transfer to the cake.  It just melted too fast when I took it out of the freezer and I couldn't get it off the paper.  (My house being 82 degrees may have been a factor too.)  You can see that it got really messed up and I ended up freehanding on the whole bottom half of the "2."  I had the same issues with getting Mickey to come off.  Luckily it was just his legs and not his face so it ended up okay.  Oh, and I found the little Minnie figure at the 99 Cent only store and had to put it on because he loves Minnie Mouse.

Damon needed help blowing out his candles.  Actually, daddy needed some help too.  We won't mention that it took him about three tries to get the candles to go out.  I think he was starting to wonder if they were trick candles.  It was kind of funny to see the flames just keep bending over and not go out.

Happy Birthday to our sweet Damon!!!  He is just so sweet and cute and I'm glad he doesn't get sick of me squeezing and kissing on him... because I do it all the time.  He is just such a happy natured kid.  It's easy to get him to smile, even if he is crying.  We love having him around!