2 Years old!!!...

of course we had a toy story party!

the birthday boy with his buzz lightyear shirt

eating some breadsticks and fruit

a new Buzz from Aunt Karen (just in time too!)

books from his Great-Aunts

first Doctor Suess book :)

basketball star

he got more and more excited as he pulled the paper off this one

toy story table

ready for church

handsome boy!

gamma and gampa

Well, my baby turned 2 on Saturday! I got all teary eyed last night thinking about him getting a few steps closer to not needing mommy anymore :( (more about that in the next post) On Thursday Jakob was running a fever of 101.7 and it would not go down with Tylenol. I finally got the fever to go down by alternating Motrin and Tylenol. I didn't know if it was a virus or teething or what so I also gave him lots of vitamin c and colloidal silver. I still don't quite know what he had, I did feel his two back molars on top have broken the skin, so maybe it was that, but I also found out that the hand, foot and mouth virus is going around the nursery at church and I know it was something in Jakey's mouth/teeth area that was bothering him, so it's still a mystery. Jeremy's parents came to stay with us on Friday and Jakob was just not acting like himself. He only wanted to be held by me and he didn't want to eat, play, read or anything. Just lay around pretty much. Friday night he was up till 2 in the morning crying. Saturday I debated whether I should just cancel his birthday party. Some of our family was coming from Tampa and I didn't want them to drive a couple hours just to have a birthday boy who had to go to bed because he was sick. Thankfully Jakob acted o.k. Still not totally feeling well or the happy, friendly Jakob but he still played a little. He ate some pizza and breadsticks (a favorite of his) and some fruit. He looked at his birthday cake and looked at me like eeeww, I am not eating that. Jeremy had to shove a piece in his mouth then he liked it and dug in :) I didn't get a ton of pictures because mostly Jakob was sitting with me. We opened presents all day long (as you can see in the pictures) because there were a lot of them and Jakob wasn't feeling too hot. His birthday turned out good in spite of the teething/sickness issue. I am glad that I decided to just invite family and not do a huge blowout though. Jakob loved all his presents. He has literally played with every one of them since Saturday, but I think the absolute favorites would be:
1. Mr Potato Head (This is favorite number one. He carries Mr. Potato head everywhere!)
2. His Toy Story table. Last night he got a container with little muffins in it, handed it to Jeremy, went to his Toy Story table, pulled out a chair and sat down for daddy to give him a muffin :) so cute
3. His basketball hoop. He likes to climb into his rocking chair and reach over and slam dunk his basketball. Yes, I know a broken limb or boo boo is on the way, but boys have to have a little fun, right? All I can say is this child is more like his Father than y'all will ever know.