Everett's 2nd birthday

Our little Everett has turned two years old!

Everett had the traditional second birthday party for our family - a party at the New Braunfels Railroad Museum. All of our boys have had their second birthday parties there. Southern's theme was "two two" (Get it? Instead of choo choo), Remington's theme was Dinosaur Train, and Baylor's theme was Thomas the Tank Engine. Well, Everett LOVES Elmo, and I was worried that he might outgrow Elmo before his third birthday party, so I wanted to have an Elmo theme for him this year. The trick was to incorporate a train somehow since we were at the train museum. I got on eBay and searched "Elmo train" and found a cute little toy train with Elmo driving it and birthday presents in the train car. Perfect! Our theme was born.

Everett had lots of fun at his party exploring the train museum, watching the model trains go, and running around all of the train cars. His party was held in the dining car, and we had sandwiches, chips, fruit and milk on the menu.

To his party, Everett wore train shorts and a custom-made-by-Mommy shirt with a large glittery 2 on the front and his name in red under the 2. The goodie bags had crayons, Elmo notepads, red balloons, and Elmo juice boxes in them. Everett's birthday cake was red velvet with whipped vanilla icing.

After the party, we came back to our house where some of our family stayed around to watch Everett open his presents.

Everett is a very happy baby and loves his mommy, daddy, bubbas, and kitty. He likes taking showers and baths. He always kicks his shoes off. He does not like to change his clothes or diaper. He loves babies and balls. He wants to do everything big brothers do. He has the cutest little accent when he says bye bye - it sounds more like "buh bye". He doesn't like being strapped into the car seat and cries out "unbuckle" as we drive. He likes books and going to the library. He likes sunglasses. He loves "milkshakes" which I make for him at home (a banana blended up with milk). He likes Elmo, Ninja Turtles (which he calls Turtle Power), Dora, Batman, and Shimmer & Shine.

Everett just outgrew his size 6 shoes, wears size 24 mo shorts and 2t pants (since the 24 mo pants are now too short), and size 2t shirts. He wears size 4 diapers and tells me "owie poo poo" when he wants me to change his diaper.

Happy Birthday, Everett!