John is 2

John turned 2 on Saturday.  He and Anna are four years and one day apart.  They are our two Olympics babies - both born during the summer Olympics, four years apart.  John was excited about his little party!
Earlier in the day we went to see Planes: Fire and Rescue for his birthday.  Later we had a little party at home.

 

Here is his cake

 John had fun trying to work the party blowers

 Here he is with his pinata

 We took turns firmly pulling the strings on the pinata (it's a pull string pinata) rather than hitting it.  Still fun.

 Shaking the last bit of candy out

 John quickly got the hang of collecting his candy and putting it in a bag

It's a useful skill

The other kids brought out presents for him and he got really excited.  He knew they were for him.  Anna opened presents just the night before and he didn't care about those presents at all.  It's fun that he understands more this year.  After he opened his first present, which was a hammer and pounding bench toy, he squealed and did a little happy dance.

But then he was confused when people brought out more presents rather than letting him play with the first one.

 He really liked this little phone toy he got

He kept trying to put it up to his ear

 It was easier once it was out of the package

 Here's John blowing out his candles and getting ready to eat cake.

He had no trouble blowing out those candles

You'll notice he still has the phone in hand.

 And he also said the word "two" and showed us two fingers

That's new for him

Everyone was having fun until John accidentally poked Anna in the nose with his fork and gave her a gushing nosebleed.  That put a little damper on the festivities.  But we still had a lot of fun.
In his defense Anna often insists on sitting as close as possible to him at the dinner table.  She was within the strike zone.

Matthew made a circuit with his snap circuits that played Happy Birthday.  Then he played it for John just before they went to bed.  John also wanted to go to bed holding his new toy phone.  Does that set a bad precedent?  I think he had a fun birthday.  We'll see what 2 brings!