2nd Cousin Birthday Party (squared)

Last weekend we had the pleasure of attending two birthday parties, both for second cousins.  Luke hadn't been to a kid birthday party for a while, so didn't really know what treats he was in for.  He quickly understood that kid's birthday parties meant three things that he is very supportive of:  other kids, new toys to play with and cake.  We had a breakthrough that he didn't cry when "Happy Birthday" was sung, as he has done almost every time so far.  We think he is either a) getting more mature; or perhaps more likely b)  linking the singing with the cake eating immediately after.  

Jackson Warner (Matt's cousin Drew's son) has his 2nd BD party on Saturday.  His party was race car themed, so cute!   Jackson is in his new car and Luke wants to play with the balloons that were taped to it.

Drew, Aunt Diane, 2nd cousin Lila

Race track - Luke, Orrin and Jackson

Jackson opening his presents.  

On Sunday we had Lila Huffman's 1st bd party (Matt's cousin Justin's daughter)

eating her cupcake

Opening presents.  There were tons of kids there!

Also this week I got to visit a couple of my friends who both recently had babies.  Amy Spears is a friend from work, and Katherine is a friend from business school.  Holding those only weeks-old babies was making this baby in my stomach seem a lot more real!  Soon this will be us again!

Amy and Jax, her 4th!!

Katherine, Eliah & baby Lillian, their 1st,

Miscellaneous pictures from the week.  Luke is talking so much more each week, I can't even keep up with giving the updates.   I think this was the "explosion" they all told me would happen sooner or later.  It is very fun!

More painting of the pumpkins.

Isolene made this little proxy train table for Luke, since he tends to knock over everythikng when it is on the ground.  We'll play for hours with this when it is up on the table.

A "real" train table at the auto repair shop that we had to literally rip Luke away from.

After the pumpkin paint was such a hit, we got him some finger paint which became a messy activity.  Since Luke prefers to not wear clothes anyway, it didn't take much to convince him to paint with just his diaper on.

But then he decided his diaper didn't need to be on either:)