Happy 2nd Birthday, E!

Our big guy is officially 2! I can hardly believe it's been 2 years since we first brought him home from the hospital (and less importantly, but just as shockingly, it's been 2 years since my last day of work....which oddly enough, seems like forever ago!). E had a great time celebrating this year. He actually had 2 little birthday parties (and 3 cakes....of which he only had a tiny bite of each...what can I say, our child isn't that into sweets....we aren't complaining!!!) - one with his friends from school and then one on his actual birthday here at home with just us. The kids at school sang Happy Birthday to him in 3 different languages...English, Bahasa Malay, and Mandarin...of course all 3 sounded like a bunch of noise when you have 30+ kids shouting (sorry, singing) the Happy Birthday song. In any case, E loved it! After coming home from school from celebrating, he was surprised by his Dad with a new fish tank. He has always been totally into fish, so he loved it. He quickly went to naming each of them....which by the way we are on some #2s now...Nemo #2, Bert and Ernie #2, Frank the Fish #2 and Michael (we still aren't sure where he came up with that name)....fish upkeep has been a learning process for the ol' Thompson family!! So while we've actually been through "several" fish, we have been able to maintain the same 8 for the last week or so!! I don't think Evan seems to mind losing them just yet or wonder where they are going...he just knows he gets new ones to look at!

As for the small family birthday party, we set out his new little motorized dump truck for him along with all his other presents, some balloons and some cupcakes I made for him so that when he came down for breakfast he would be surprised....well, it takes alot to excite our little E...I asked him what he thought about everything when he first saw it and the only thing he could come up with was.... "cake"...which by the way, he doesn't even care to eat! He had one small bite and that was it and didn't even want to get the icing on his hands because they would get "all dirty"...as he always says! But once he got in the car and tried it out...that was it, he didn't need anything else. He loved it! We'd hoped to find him one of the bigger 4-wheel drive ones like they have back home, but they just don't make anything like that around here. So, we settled for this little dump truck, which actually worked out perfectly. It's just his size and small enough for him to ride around the kitchen...since our time outside is limited due to the heat and all the mosquitoes (which he is allergic to just like his mother!). So, since we returned from our trip to Thailand, he has been busy learning to steer and "park" his new truck. He has also been enjoying all the new books, puzzles and toys he also received. I do think he was "birthday partied" out though. We had been practicing singing and blowing out candles for a couple of weeks, so by the time the big day arrived and the third cake came out (he'd already had one at school, one in the morning and then this one in the evening)...he was through! He didn't even want to sit at the table to blow out his candles - we had to take it to him while he played in his truck....and then didn't even want to try a bite of the yummy ice cream cake (which was more for me anyhow since I knew he wasn't going to want any!!)


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While we love watching and listening to E learn new stuff everyday, we don't love so much how he is learning to throw bigger fits lately when he doesn't get what he wants. There must be something magical about turning 2 because it seemed like just a couple of weeks before his 2nd birthday, this bigger attitude emerged out of nowhere and my sweet, little angel instantly became this little stinker whose new favorite word is...NO!....and of course "yes", when you are the one telling him "no"!! We even had our first public tantrum in the Krabi airport on our way back home....that was nice and embarrassing! Ahhh, the terrible 2's...they're here!!

I'll be sure and try and get a slide show of pictures from our trip out soon. We had a fantastic time. The weather was great and the resort was beautiful.