We just celebrated Sebastien's 2nd birthday on May 14th and had so much fun. We decided to start a new family tradition this year and that is decorating the house the night before a birthday. We put the boys to bed and then hung streamers in the family room and dining room above the kitchen table. Right now Sebastien is very interested in trains. We found a really cool train track at Once Upon A Child, not really knowing what it did we bought it anyway. As we were decorating the house we decided to put the train stuff together and have it on the kitchen table for Sebastien's big surprise. It came with a little microphone and you to tell the train to "go" or "stop". It also has four different buttons you can push to give the train a destination to go to. We put a present at each stop and thought it would be fun to have Sebastien open them when the train stopped. I think Troy and I played with it for about 15 minutes that night, we knew we wouldn't have a chance to once Sebastien saw it.
When Sebastien woke up the morning of his birthday we took him downstairs to see his surprise. I wanted to record him but I couldn't figure out how to take a video, Troy came to the rescue and I sat with Sebastien on the stairs. The closer he got to the bottom of the stairs he could see the streamers in the kitchen and said "oh, look mom". That got him SO excited he could hardly stand it. He went down one more step and then it happened....he saw the TRAIN TRACK! He sprinted into the kitchen and yelled "TRAIN" as loud as he possibly could. It was so cute! He ended up playing with the train for about 20 minutes, then we took him into the other room to open his presents. He had so much fun opening his new train movies, sandals, a cool bubble machine/bubbles and a puzzle.
We also decided another birthday tradition would be to go get a donut for breakfast, and that we did. Troy took Sebastien in to pick out his very own birthday donut and then we went to the train depot to watch all the trains come in.
This was Sebastien's lucky day. He not only got to see trains, but a fire truck and airplanes too...the Air Force C130's to be exact!
Manti broke out in a nasty rash that day and we ended up in urgent care (the base clinic was closed). After an hour of waiting, 15 minutes of Manti screaming because the doctor weighed him and then looked at him, we found out he had a virus. With all the symptoms he had that week, I knew that!! Another wonderful visit to the Dr's office, wasting time!
Anyway, after the visit to the doc, it was time for lunch. We don't usually go to the play area at McDonald's but since it was Sebastien's special day we decided that would be another fun thing for him. Is this boy spoiled or what?? The rest of the day was spent at home, playing outside and having fun.
There was so much excitement that day, Sebastien pooped out at 7:30!
We left his birthday decorations up for a couple of days for a little birthday bash with his friends(I didn't want to decorate twice). Anytime he woke up he would come downstairs, look at the streamers and get so excited. It was so fun to see the excitement on his little face. He is such a wonderful boy, we truly are blessed to have him in our lives. We love you Sebastien!!
(birthday party post to come soon)
2 comments:
What a lucky boy and it's ok if he is a "little" spoiled!!
how much fun. I wish we could have been there for his party. we sure miss you guys.
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