Happy Birthday Harrison!

Our little baby is two years old. Does this mean I should stop calling him my baby? Sigh... When did he get so big? Do we really have a two year old? How did this happen?

Harrison is in love with Curious George, so this birthday was all monkey business.



Here is Harrison with all of his presents! Looks pretty spoiled, doesn't he? I'd deny it, but it's probably true... He's an only child, I can't help it. In my defense most of those bags have 88 cent dinosaurs from Walmart and dollar presents from Target. I'm not that out of control. (Peter, no comments from you.)

I wanted to take a cute birthday picture but Harrison was way too concerned about the balloons to sit very still for that. Today I asked him what he got for his birthday and he responded "balloons!" Yeah, he loved them. Here's our best shot -


The rest turned out like this...










He was so silly. He would throw a balloon up in the air and laugh until it got close to coming back down,


Then he would close his eyes really tight before it would bounce on his head.


Love this one.


He also really loves Little People so we bought him a Little People Car Wash and a Little People Farm. Both a big hit!












And here's the cake! It's suppose to be Curious George, but he ended up a little too chubby... In the end all I wanted was for him to look like a monkey! I think he turned out pretty good! A little more Super Mario looking than Curious George, but still pretty cute! Harrison called it his "monkey curious george cake" so I call a success! (I know... a lot of cake pictures. Sorry! Mom and Aimee, these are mostly for you :)












And not to be forgotten, this is Harrison's smash cake. (aka his own mini cake he was allowed to smash into)


All of these ended up looking like Harrison was blinking, but really that's him blowing. He closed his eyes with every attempt. He was so funny to watch "blow" out his candles. He was too nervous to get too close to the flame, but it sure didn't keep him from blowing and blowing and blowing!




Still blowing...


One last blow before some help from mommy...


And here he is absolutely thrilled that we let him do it again! :)


And not so thrilled about the smoke from the candles... Smoke is scary, people!




Once the candles had been blown out (twice), Harrison got a go at his smash cake.


There was not much smashing involved. Just a lot of this:




But Peter thought it was tasty!


Still not sure...


And finally we give him a fork. Yep. He wouldn't touch the thing until we gave him a fork. That's so Harrison.

Then the action got started. Kind of...








We finally encouraged him to pick up his cake and take a BIG bite!




FAKE OUT! He picked it up and pretended to eat it. He made chewing noises and everything, but this kid was NOT going to make a mess of his monkey cake, or get frosting all over his hands and face. No real bites of the cake ever happened.




Happy Birthday, Harrison!! We can't believe you are getting so big so fast. You amaze us every day with the new things you are learning and the things you can do. You are such sweetheart and complete joy in our lives. We are so happy that you are a part of our family! Happy, happy birthday!!

Easter

I am in love with Harrison's Easter outfit. The plaid pants and sweater vest make me smile every time I look at them. And his white collar shirt with the sleeves rolled up makes it that much more adorable.

But add in that ridiculous plaid hat and my heart just sings. Seriously, this is the best Easter outfit there every was. It makes my heart oh so very happy.






And then there's this cute face...


That smile + the amazing outfit = crazy amounts of cuteness.


I can hardly stand it. Love this boy!








The best part about this outfit is that later we read in Parents Magazine the list of the best baby names in 2009. They were put into categories such as "Royalty Names" (Henry, Victoria, Anastasia), "Nature Lovers" (Cliff, Winter, Daisy, Dawn), "Rock Stars" (Elvis, Janis, Ashlee), etc. The name Harrison fell into the category "Country Clubbers" along with Stanford, Chase, Brynley, Grace, Eleanor and others.

Haha. Little did we know we were just helping our son live up to his name. :)

Rachel and Eric spent Easter with us:


Wride family Easter picture:






Here is Harrison checking out his Easter goods. The Easter bunny brought him some dinosaurs and a Lightning McQueen sippy cup. Lucky! (the Little People cars are from Grandma Wride - she is so sweet and always so good to us!)



Hunting for eggs...


I was worried that Harrison wouldn't really get the concept of hunting for eggs, but I should have known better... Harrison is all about things being in their appropriate place. He's almost OCD about it. He loved it! He was all about finding those eggs and putting them in his basket where they belonged.







Even better was when he realized there was stuff inside!


He then proceeded to dump the contents of all his eggs,


and give this "Is there a problem?" look when we asked what he was doing.




Kate and Brock joined us later!




Cute outfits, yummy food, lots of candy, and family. We love Easter.

Are you getting excited?

More Easter pictures coming soon. Just wanted to give you time to prepare yourself for a MAJOR overload.




(p.s. - you can click on any image on our blog to make it bigger...)

I can't seem to keep up

I use to be really good at updating our blog, but there have been so many other things going on lately that I just can't seem to get to it. Someday I'll post all the cute pictures from Dallin and Amy's Wedding... from our trip to Arizona... playdates with friends... and a million other things that I keep meaning to share with all of you,

but not today.


Today you just get one picture. :) Hopefully this will hold you til I can get to all of those other posts I keep meaning to do.


This is my new favorite picture of Harrison. Well, today's favorite picture. I'm sure I'll have a new one tomorrow. Man I love that sweet face.

We're still here...

I'm learning how to use my new camera.



It helps to have a ridiculously cute little boy as my subject to practice on.