Birthday party

On Sunday the 17th we hosted a little second birthday party for Van. We wanted to keep it small so as not to overwhelm him. Although I think he was a little perplexed by the people. He was also a little confused by the cake coming in with the happy birthday song. He saw me bringing in the cake and was happy to see Thomas the Tank Engine on top but then quickly got a little freaked out when we all started singing lol. All in all I think he enjoyed himself. Although for our part we were quintessentially parent brain addled about the whole thing. Not only did we forget to take a lot of pics (of the decorations for example, although there are a lot of the cake eating as you will see!) we also forgot to give out the gift bags :-O! Anyway, here are some moments Pat did manage to capture:

Vanh and Max:


Hudson gets some love from Chibi:


Van is wondering what Neila is doing sitting in his chair hehe:



BBQ outside



Cake time:











Finally, about a week ago Pat took out his Tonka truck that he had played with as a child. As you can see below Van was enraptured :)








Van's actual birthday is tomorrow. His Ba (my mom) is arriving tonight and we have a couple of adoption gatherings this weekend so there will be more festivities over the next few days.

Less than a month left of Van's second year

It's hard to believe but Van's second year of life is soon going to be over and he will journey into year three. As my blogging has slowed down considerably over the past few months I will save developmental updates for when he does turn two. In the meantime I think my posts will be mostly pictures and videos. I'm sure that's the preference of readers anyway :)

A few Canada Day pics without Van:



Canada Day at the playground (a better fit for a 2 year old):








The parliament hill fireworks seen from our attic window:


Splash park fun (well, he actually preferred the playground or watching the water go down the drain when the sprinklers turned off lol):




Here's a little montage video of Van...well...running around lol. Note in the middle of the video when Pat asks him if that's his bus he actually says cheerios. That's what was in the container he was trying to pick up along with his bus. Multitasking:

Van 22 months from Patrick Lewis on Vimeo.