Tanner's 2nd Birthday

On May 1st, we went to the A's for dinner.  Angie was in town so everyone got together for dinner.  All but Chelsea and Austin were there which made it really fun to see everyone.  Tanner loves being sung to and loves to blow out candles.  When he's done he'll say "again! again!"  I think we sang to him two times and had him blow out the candles four times.

Tanner was spoiled by our families.  Mike and Amy gave him a Melissa and Doug tool set.  He LOVES it!!!  He takes the hammer and pounds on it as hard as he can.  Jake and Jess gave him these awesome pull back cars that fit perfectly in his hands.  Angie gave him a fun little fishing game with two fishing poles.  Grandpa and Grandma gave him a great semi truck that has four rows to carry cars and then some batman cars to go on the truck.  Tanner loves to play with cars!   

Before I went to bed, I blew up some balloons and tapped them to Tanner's crib for his birthday.  (Thanks to Shan's tradition)  When he woke up, he was so excited with the balloons.  He kept saying "baoons!"  Baoons!"  I've been trying to teach him how to hold up two fingers and say "I'm 2."  It's so cute when he does it!

Unfortunately we weren't able to do anything fun for his birthday because Bridger had a baseball game that night.  When we got home for the game we ate dinner and opened up presents.  Tanner got a new Mickey Mouse camping chair.  So now at all of his brother's games, he has his own chair to sit in.  You can tell from the picture that he loves his new chair!  Then he opened a "Growl" sound book and that could have been the end of his birthday.  He was perfectly content to sit in his new chair and look at his sound book.  It was so cute!  

But then Bridger helped him open some more presents.  He got some Mickey Mouse band instruments.  He wasn't too sure about those but maybe that's ok because one day I'm sure he'll be super loud with them.

Tanner got Old MacDonald driving a John Deer tractor with animals on the back wagons.  The animals make sounds and the farmer sings "Old MacDonald."  It's really cute!

Another big hit was his Mickey Mouse microphone!!  You press a button and it sings the "Hot Dog" song!!!  Tanner started to dance around the room when he heard the song.  His favorite show to watch on TV is Mickey Mouse clubhouse.  So he was really excited with the Mickey microphone.

His last present was a t-ball set.  We took it outside (even though it was dark) and let him hit some balls off of the T.  Grandpa A has been teaching Tanner how to play baseball so this is the perfect gift for him.  He loves it!!!

Because it had been such a crazy day, I didn't have time to make a cake so I ran to the grocery store and bought these delicious snickers chocolate cupcakes.  Tanner ate the whole thing!  I took his shirt off because I didn't want chocolate cake smeared all over it.

He started off using his spoon but quickly realized it was a lot easier to eat it with his fingers.

I can't believe that Tanner is 2!!!  Time just flies by! We're so grateful for Tanner!  He's added so much love to our home.