Lane's 2nd Birthday Party - April 17th

This year, we had Lane's party almost a month before his actual birthday. Obviously, I was nervous about waiting to have his party too close to this birthday, because it would also be extremely close to my due date. Lane's party was a dog theme, or as he says "daaawwwg!" He has such a little country accent when he says dog!

Nana and Aunt Sarah took Lane to feed the ducks while I prepared things for his party.

YAAAAAYYY!

Lane's birthday cake

Somehow I did not manage to get a picture of the whole table. However, I got big dog bowls to use as serving dishes.

Lane was not so sure about everyone singing "happy birthday" to him...

He was thrilled with everyone clapping for him though!

opening lots of presents!

After eating hotdogs, cake, etc and opening presents, the party moved outside. It was quite warm outside so we set up two kiddie pools, a water table and a sprinkler. The kids had a blast!

Sweet Mags!

I love Lane's smile in this pic...

Daddy had a good time playing with the bubbles too!

Happy 2nd Birthday, Lane! We love you so much!

At the carwash!

At the beginning of April, the pollen in Birmingham was ridiculous! I decided to take my car through a car wash. I wasn't sure if Lane had ever been with me through a car wash, so I decided to take pictures.

He looked a bit nervous as the brush thing started up...

but that QUICKLY went away! He LOVED the car wash!

YAY! YAY! YAY!

Easter 2010

Easter week was a crazy week! Our water heater started leaking so we ended up spending several nights at GiGi and Papa Rock. Easter morning Lane woke up at Gigi and Papa Rock's house and found a surprise from the Easter bunny! The first thing he ran to was Brobie, a little green monster from Yo Gabba Gabba! (sorry the pics are so blurry. I took them with my phone, and he is a quick little fella!)

Elmo Easter eggs!
Gigi showed Lane how his Brobie toy worked - PURE EXCITEMENT!
Gigi and Papa Rock bought him a HUGE Easter bunny!

The Elmo eggs have

The traditional Easter bunny cake. I don't remember an Easter in my life without this cake. A few adjustments were made this year, mainly the use of m&m's. I thought maybe Lane might try some cake if it had his favorite candy, but no! Seriously, what child does not like cake??
Lane absolutely LOVED hunting Easter eggs!! We hid and found eggs at least 3 times that afternoon. Then that evening after we put all the Easter eggs in a Ziploc bag, he opened the bag and scattered them around Gigi's living room. He wanted to hide eggs again!

Gigi bought a case of confetti eggs. Lane did not think it was very funny when she cracked one over his head!

Some of the eggs had quarters! :D
Lane liked the confetti eggs much better once he realized how to crack them!
Watch out Gigi!!


hehe!

Later that afternoon, Lane took time to stop and smell the flowers!

Random March Pictures

Lane playing blocks...

One day we were clearing out everything from the guest bedroom preparing for Bethany, and Lane took off with the keyboard from my old computer. This is where we found him. :D

One Saturday morning, Lane climbed up into Chris' lap and dumped the blocks out. He played like this for quite awhile!

Lane's first face plant! One afternoon, Lane and I were playing with Papa Rock at his house. We were running around the cul-de-sac and on the sidewalks. Lane was running down the neighbors sidewalk to get Papa Rock when all of a sudden he tripped. His face hit the concrete and bounced! The sound was HORRIBLE! And of course, it was followed by pitiful crying. This picture was taken shortly after the first fall. A couple days later he hit his nose again causing it to bleed. Then, at the end of the week I took him to the Dr. to make sure it was not getting infected. While we were there, Lane was sitting perfectly on his bottom in a chair then fell out and face planted on the hard floor. He tore the ligament thing that connects your lip to your gum! I was so thankful the pediatrician was in the room with me when it happened. There was so much blood, I would have been absolutely hysterical if he had not been there to calm me down and help stop the bleeding!! What a week!

So, what do you do to make a week better? Mall carousel!

Easter Surprise

One day, Lane received an Easter Surprise in the mail from Memaw and Papaw. He opened up the box and found a camo truck Easter basket filled with a ziplock bag of duck food (cheerios)!

I don't think he understood it was an Easter basket, but he had a blast driving it around the house!

He really wanted to go feed the ducks!!

Thanks Memaw and Papaw for the surprise!!