Robby Report

Birthday Edition- 2 years old!

Wednesday was Robby's birthday! (has it really been two years already?!?)

We started the day off with a bowl of special birthday oatmeal with sprinkles (I pretty much go all out for my kids...wink, wink)

Then we headed off to the park to meet Jen and Coco for a birthday playdate. The minute Robby's stroller turned the corner to the park and he saw Jen, he started shouting her name and waving excitedly. Makes me get all choked up just thinking about it. And I thought he was going to be disappointed because Nolan wasn't there, but nope. He was just as thrilled to see Jen. Boy did her keep her busy. he kept saying um on, Jen! Um pay! and of course, Jen did not disappoint! She slid, climbed, chased and cuddled my sweet little man.

Here he is with his sweet pal Coco sharing a snack.

They even sent him home with his first birthday present of the day (he's way more excited about that Cars book than this picture lets on. He'd much rather play with it than stop to take a picture).

For dinner we decided to have a few of Robby's favorites. When John, Ty and I were coming up with the list of robby's favorites, we realized what a funny little guy he is. He likes fish better than chicken, he likes Subway better than McDonalds, he likes prunes better than raisins, he likes almonds and walnuts better than peanuts and he loves black beans and corn. Since it was birthday day, I didn't want to cook a whole lot so we went with some of his more low key favorites...hot dogs, homemade salsa with chips, and cantaloupe. Easy peasy.

Next we decided to open presents so as to give his insulin dose some time before hitting him with cake and ice cream.

Let me take just a second to explain Robby's birthday presents. A little over a year ago (before Robby turned one), I asked Tyler if it would be okay if we boxed up his trains and hid them for a while and then Tyler could give them to Robby for his birthday when he turned two. At the time, Tyler was 4 and a half and was pretty much done with "the train phase," so he was totally cool with that.

So for Robby's birthday, I bought one brand new train and wrapped it up and then put all of the old trains in a box and wrapped it up and then Tyler and I secretly set up a train track in the toy room to surprise Robby.

Here he is opening his presents and finding lots of "coo coos" (choo choos)

And here he is when he went upstairs and found some of his tracks set up.

Excited doesn't begin to describe it. He was hilariously adorable. We laughed at all of his darling, excited antics and chatter. He was so happy, he could hardly contain it!

He played and played and played. We were beginning to wonder if it was a bad idea to pre-bolus his insulin for cake and ice cream because we didn't know if we could tear him away from his train heaven.
We did finally make it downstairs for cake and ice cream, but not without...

you guessed it... a couple of trains.

And now he's super busy and has lots on his agenda to do all day...every day.

Happy Birthday to our little Gus!