Caleb's 2nd Birthday

My tiny little baby is finally two.  **Insert crying mommy HERE**  I can't believe my little baby boy is this big already.  Where did the time go?

We spent the evening before decorating the house and baking Caleb's cake.  His theme was construction trucks.  We blew up orange and yellow balloons and covered the house in streamers.  It looked really cute and festive.  His cake was a simple boxed cake (chocolate fudge with milk chocolate icing)  I put it in a glass baking bowl instead of a pan to get a nice round shape.  Then I covered the edges with green coconut for grass and crumbled up cookies for dirt.  Here's the end result.

Here's the crushed cookies.  We sprinkled some on the top and around the base of the cake.  It was Steve's idea to actually put some inside the truck scoop.

The coconut was colored with food coloring and water.  We put 5 drops of coloring and a few splashes of water into a ziplock bag, added a handful of coconut, and shook the bag until everything looked like grass.  We let it dry for about an hour before we used it on the cake.

Caleb was THRILLED when we pulled it out of the fridge!  He had a little bit of help blowing out the candles from daddy.  Hopefully next year he will be able to do it on his own.

We bought Caleb an easel and a tool bench this year.  We set those up the night before so Caleb could start playing with them right away.  We put all his gifts in the living room with balloons scattered around them.  He didn't know what to do with the wrapped gifts when he first saw them.  But once we showed him that there were presents inside, he caught on quite quickly.

I wrote "Happy 2nd Birthday Caleb" on his easel and drew his favorite construction truck...an 'Up and Down'!!

By the way...Kaysen LOVES this easel.  I think he used it more than Caleb did yesterday.  He still tries to chew on the crayons, but he is so happy to draw that I just keep a close eye on him.

Caleb likes the fact that I let him take the marker caps on and off.  He's doing a really good job with putting them back in the pockets after he is finished drawing.

In addition to the easel and tool bench, we got him a few trucks.  Here he is peeking into one of the packages that was making noises as he was opening it.

It was a really nice day for all of us.  Where did my little babies go?