James' 2nd Birthday!!

My little baby boy turned 2 this past Saturday! I think I'm still in a state of shock! Was it really 2 years ago that he joined our family? It seems like just yesterday JL and I were going through the woe's that are infertility and now we have two beautiful children in our lives! How blessed we truly are! Sigh.

We started the day with a little breakfast followed by presents, presents and more presents. Hey, why waste time? James figured we outta just get to the good stuff. :-) If the pictures don't do it justice - the boy is spoiled! And there was a definate theme to the gifts: baseball!

We decided to get the Fireworks Season Pkg to the Round Rock Express games for a second year in a row. Last year James went to every game and we only had to leave early twice! That's amazing considering there's about 20 games in the package.

This year we've been to 3 games so far. Izzy and I have been to two of those. She has seemed to enjoy them also. Well, as much as someone can enjoy them through their eye lids! James has just loved them! He sits on his daddy's lap and watches every pitch, run, out, you name it. He is fascinated with the whole thing. He's also expanded his vocabulary to include words like "pitch" "strike" "out" "too bad" "home run" and "fireworks."

Last year the fireworks were the thing to see. This year - not soo much. They are too loud for him and possibly a bit scary. He holds his ears and tells the fireworks they are naughty! :-) I'm curious to see how another year changes things. For now, we usually bail out before the fireworks start.

He's also a big fan of the mascot for the Express: Spike the dog. Last year he wanted to just see Spike from a safe distance. This year - it's all about touching him. He was so proud that at the last game he had given him five. :-) He had to tell EVERYONE that he gave "spike the dog five." It was too cute.

So his presents included baseballs, baseball gloves, a spike stuffed animal and of course, cars. He's still holding on to that passion as well.

After opening presents, we took the whole crew out to Perdenales Falls State Park. It was so pretty - but SOOOOOO HOT! The reading in our car was 104! And believe me, it felt like it. I was melting! But James and Izzy (and of course JL) didn't seem to mind at all.

From there we went to KFC, picked up our dinner and headed to the park over by our house. It gave James a chance to throw around his baseball and practice with his new mitt. * As a random note: JL was stung by a bee at this park! He was walking through a clover field on our way to the picnic table and the little bugger just climbed in his sandal and that was that.

By the time we got home James was exhausted but a happy boy!