His favorite food, pizza
It took a few tries, but he finally got the candle out!
I still cannot believe that our little guy is now 2! Part of me is really happy because I love the boy he's growing up to be. But of course, part of me is sad, since he's no longer a baby. He had a really fun party with his best buddies where he jumped to his heart's content in a bouncy house. All the play was followed by a fireman ice cream cake, which had some serious red icing, leaving a memory of the cake long afterwards.
Graham's really into mowing right now, and he mows several times a day. He's got a few in the house, but his favorites are his daddy's two in the garage. I like our garage just fine, but I never thought it would be a place that rivaled the kitchen for the amount of time I spend there every day. And any time we hear a mower outside, the excitement is stirred and I'm trying to explain why we can't track the mower down and watch!
And he calls himself Boom. Pretty much all the time now. We have ideas of where this came from (my dad is "Boompa", and he likes to jump off things and say "boom"), but since it doesn't seem to be leaving his vocabulary, it's definitely started to stick with us as well. We hope our little Boom has a great 2nd year ahead of him!!!
So Graham's birthday present from us was a new kitchen. This wasn't Chris's first choice on a gift, but the lure of having an occupied 2-year-old inside our house convinced him. And I think it was the right choice, because even Chris agrees that he loves it! The other day, Chris got to watch an NBA playoff game 3 feet away from Graham almost completely uninterrupted. He's cooking on it every day, and now I can't throw out any boxes or containers without him using them in Boom's Kitchen first. We just might have the first pro mower/chef in the family!
