And the Celebration Continues!

Saturday night we had Matthew's birthday party. There were moments during the day where I doubted that all the work was worth it because he would never remember the party anyway. But the evening proved to be a wonderful time to have several young families together, celebrating Matthew's 2 years. Matthew still enjoys talking about the evening and remembering who was there that night. He loves to talk about all of his friends. When we talk about the party, he always asks for "more". So, looking back on the day, and having recovered from the exhaustion of getting everything done, I'm glad we did the party. After all, this is how Matthew learns what a birthday is - and he's proved that to us and he likes to replay the singing of the birthday song and the blowing out of the candles. Here are some pictures from the party.

Lots of the people swimming at the party.

All of the Great-Grandparents came - even 96-year-old Grammy, 24 hours after moving into her new home!

Matthew trying to blow out his candle! This is good of a shot of the cake as I got - I forgot to take a picture of the Buzz cake after it was finished.

The candle wouldn't go out, so he tried to get a little closer...

Nama finally had to help!

Here's one of Matthew opening his presents. This one captures his excitement over cars.

Lastly, here is a shot of the cake before I wrote "Happy Birthday Matthew" on it. When I showed Matthew his cake the day before the party, he got upset because his cars were on the cake and because he couldn't have the Buzz Lightyear figure. The event ended in Matthew holding all three - which I took back after he went to bed. Then I hid the cake until the party! At the party, I caught him taking the Buzz figure, licking the bottom, and puting it back. Needless to say, that claimed which piece of cake was his!