Cooper's 2nd Birthday celebrations begin....3 weeks early!

Well, we are booked for our flight to Texas!  And wouldn't you know it, we are flying out on my little one's actual birthday.  Andrew has a meeting he has to attend on the 10th so we will be flying out later that night....and in flight on Cooper's birthday!  Because of this we decided that we would have a little birthday celebration at home for him with some of his Malaysia friends...and since our friends are all traveling on vacation next week (the expat school is currently on a 2 week holiday)....and since we'll be packing up our house the following week, this was the only time we could schedule something for him!  So we had about 6 other kids over yesterday afternoon for alot of running around, lots of playing and LOTS of screaming!  The boys had a great time and Cooper LOVED having all the attention as well as being sung Happy Birthday to!

And don't feel too sorry for the little munchkin that will be on a 27 hour flight back to good ol' Texas on his birthday...he is definitely going to make out much better than if we were still living here!  He has already had one party and we have another one planned for celebrating at school with his little buddies in early May, not to mention he will have the never-ending birthday on the 11th since we will be making up the 13 hour time difference on our flight and Mommy plans to have a little birthday present for him to open up on the airplane(we take off on our 10th at 11:15pm and land in Texas on the 11th....27 hours later!), and BeBe and Boss already have birthday decorations for another party in Texas once we are settled!  So I don't think he is going to be scarred from this one bit....he'll probably be more spoiled by it than anything and expect the multiple parties in the future!  Not to mention, he'll never even remember his 2nd birthday - c'mon how many actually remember even their 3rd or 4th birthdays!?!?  So on with the celebrations....my baby is going to be 2 very soon!!!

Our serving table with a few appetizers

The kids' table

A birthday isn't complete without a few balloons!

Waiting for all our guests to arrive

Enjoying some yummy chicken nuggets and pizza

Coop and his new bud, Emily!  I never knew window crayons could be soo much fun (thanks BeBe, those have come in very handy!)

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday....I thought it was too adorable that he had his little arm around Micaela....already hitting on the older girls!

"I LOVE birthdays!"

Singing Happy Birthday

Blowing out the candle...YAY!

"Let me at a plate and a fork so I can have some of my cake!"

"Forget finding a chair to sit on, the floor will work just fine"

"Wow, that was some yummy cake"

Alex...Cooper's buddy who is 4 months younger but almost as tall and as heavy as E!

And here is a little video of singing Happy Birthday....this was Take #2 so Marte could get it on video for me to share with everyone!  I think he would have loved for us to sing it to him 10 more times...he LOVES blowing out candles!

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