Happy Birthday Corbin!

Yesterday was Corbin's second birthday. What a big kid he is becoming. I don't know if he really understood what a birthday was, but people kept telling him Happy Birthday, singing to him and asking him how old he was all day long (to which he has learned to say, "two," while holding up one finger -- we are still working on learning numbers :) I think he was mostly likely confused about why we were all acting so weird.

His Grandma Lloyd stopped by and brought him two balloons, which he is in love with. He always points out balloons in books and at the store, but I think this is the first time he has ever actually owned one. His biggest problem is he always wants to hold them both at the same time, the actual balloon, not just the strings, which his little arms can't handle, and as soon as one slips, it flies up to where he can't reach it. He also enjoys grabbing the strings and flinging them around in the air, which is fun to watch because the whole time is face is all scrunched up as though he is bracing for impact because he can't control them enough to not hit himself in the head repeatedly.

It being a weekday we mostly just hung out at home all day, other than a trip to story time at the library, and played as much as possible. When Caleb got home we had Corbin's favorite food for dinner:


If you ever ask that kid what he wants to eat, I would say 80% of the time he will ask for pancakes. I found a pancake mix at the health food store that has no eggs or milk, so he can eat it, which we use in the mornings when I am too lazy to make them from scratch with the proper substitutes for him (which is becoming more and more frequently :) The only thing is the mix is made with kamut flour, what kind of a grain is that? Anyway... he likes them.

Caleb ended up having to work kind of late, so after dinner we just hung out at home as a family and showered the kid with as much attention as possible and let him stay up late and eat a bowl of soy ice cream, what a lucky day!


Having only had ice cream one other time in his life, which would have been a year ago on his last birthday, he was kind of concerned that it was so cold, and played with it the majority of the time, rather than eating it. But oh, well... as long as he had fun, right?