Happy Birthday Matt & Levi (A bunch of pictures)

It's that time of year again when Matt and I scramble to figure out what to do for gift ideas. It doesn't matter if it is for us or for Levi. We struggle usually every time. Matt's birthday is Dec. 3rd. Levi's birthday is Dec. 4th. Our anniversary is Dec. 11th and of course Christmas on the 25th. Every year we tell each other that we really had poor planning in every department possible. But it does make for fun times though.

Matt turned 28 this year and our baby boy is now 2! I honestly can't believe that Levi is 2. It is so cliche to say but where did the time go? The past 2 years have been difficult at times but more amazing than anything. For Matt's birthday I made him a cake. Let me just say that I am NOT a cake decorating professional by any means. I try and that is all I can do! But it's cake so it will just be eaten anyway. I also made Levi a cake as well. I can never decide what the best thing to do is as far as cakes go. Do I make just one cake for both Matt and Levi? Or do I make 2? Being pregnant doesn't help me to decide which is better either. So I did 2 cakes anyway.


I didn't have a number 8 candle so as you can see I just put 27 + 1. It worked!

Levi really wanted to touch the candles but he did a good job helping Matt blow them out

The next day I was able to help Levi blow out his candles. Since Levi's birthday and Christmas are so close together we decided that we wanted to save most of his presents for Christmas. So we got him an Elmo chair. He loves it! It giggles and vibrates when he sits in it. We also got him a play kitchen set with food. We replaced the microwave that came with the kitchen set with a way cooler one. The new one has a timer, makes noise, and has more buttons for Levi to push. It is interesting to watch Levi use his imagination and pretend to cook or eat the food. Our neighbor got Levi an Elmo movie and Elmo bath toy as well.

Then came the fun part of letting Levi go crazy with his cake. We stripped him down to his diaper and let him go at it. We gave him a bigger piece of cake and Levi wasn't sure exactly what to do with it. Once Matt showed him he could just pick it up and eat it, Levi devoured that cake.

This past Saturday my parents came out and spent the day with us. We went to the Heard Museum. It was a really neat place that you wouldn't think would be so close to us. They had a dinosaur exhibit going on and Levi wasn't too excited about it. The dinosaurs moved and made noise and it scared him. It was cute to see how much Levi clung on to us. Meemaw and Papaw brought presents too. They got him a new pair of shoes, toy trucks, crayons, and a coloring book. We were most excited about the shoes!

Levi is touching a crystal that he is not supposed to touch.

Digging for "Fools Gold".

Looking at the nasty snakes! Yucky!

Levi is too scared to let go of us or my mom's leg!! There wasn't anything that he liked about the whole dinosaur experience.

This museum is a fun place to visit and we will be going back in the spring when they have more outdoor exhibits open. We had a fun weekend celebrating with each other and family. Thanks Mom and Dad for coming out. We finished off the day by going to Subway for dinner and doing some Christmas shopping for Levi at Toys R Us.