Happy 2nd Birthday Aaron!

Happy 2nd birthday Aaron!! Today was a fun day celebrating Aaron's 2nd birthday.

We started the day with a birthday surprise. He was super excited to see what was that giant thing under the blue sheet. 

Unfortunately, we didn't assemble it ahead of time and realize that the battery needs to charge for 16 hours prior to its first use. He was a bit sad to have to wait, but he likely didn't realize that it moves (until he got to ride it the following day). He was so happy to just have a "momo" in his garage, like our neighbor a few doors down.

After getting to see his momo assembled and sitting on it, his best friend Alice came over with her mom and brother, AJ, to spend a fun morning together. Aaron got to blow out some candles and eat cupcakes with Alice and AJ at 9:30 in the morning! Nothing like a cupcake to start your day!

Cupcakes with Alice & AJ

Blowing out his candles, round 1

Alice gave him a cute California hat with a koala on it.

After cupcakes, we went to the Children's Museum for a fun morning. Aaron is at the perfect age and with the right interests to love that place. He went right for the painting on the tractor. 

Painting the tractor
He also loved the bubbles, drawing area and the food play area.

Chillin' in the orange with Alice

We went to Walker Brother's for some pancakes for lunch and headed home for nap to get ready for a fun afternoon / evening of continued celebration. Jeff made lamb lollipops for Aaron's birthday dinner since last time we had them, Aaron seemed to love them. 

Emily wrote Aaron this sweet little note at school for his birthday. Dear Aaron, Happy Birthday cute! I hope you had fun when I was at school. You are going to love your cake. It has a marble maze in it. I love you. You are so cute. Love, Emily

For his cake, we made a marble maze. As you know, Aaron LOVES his marbles so we made him a marble run cake. Emily helped to conceptualize how we'd get the maze integrated with the cake. Here is the cake in action. 

Our friends and neighbors, Jeff, Janet & Simon, came over to celebrate with Aaron. Aaron LOVES them. A few months ago, he had his first sleep over at their house. And just the other day, upon waking up from his nap, I told Aaron someone was here to see him (Emily's friend was over) and the first person he thought of was "Anet" (Janet). And Simon is so brotherly to Aaron. Aaron just loves them and was pleased to have them celebrate with him. 

Simon loves superheroes and was doing his brotherly duties in teaching Aaron about superheroes so he started him off with some Batman pajamas (they have a cape!) and some awesome superhero cars.

Simon's mom, Janet took this awesome video of Aaron eating his cake. Aaron clearly loved the cake. And watching himself on video.

Happy birthday Bear Bear! We love you!