The Boys Turn Two.

Last night I decided to throw a little birthday party for the boys. It turned out a bit of a flop. My first mistake was doing it close to bedtime. I made the boys cupcakes and the rest of us had chocolate eclair cake (delicious). The boys are super picky about what they eat so I had to make two separate desserts (mostly because Mike really loves chocolate eclair cake). The boys loved their cupcakes, so that was a plus.



Christian looks perpetually surprised in most pictures I take of him. I think it's his giant eyes.
Anyway, at this point in the picture taking I realized the mop of hair of Christian's head was looking pretty wild. We had a quick hair combing session and....

that's when the party started falling apart.

My second mistake during the birthday flop was not previewing the presents beforehand. I have heard of parents of twins buying identical toys for their kids and I always thought that was ridiculous (and I still do), but I understand the reasoning. These kids are obsessed with the same things. So when Christian opened up a box containing a yellow pick-up truck, they both audibly gasped at the same time. I knew that the party was over at that moment. The fighting that ensued was pretty typical. William collapsed on the floor bawling and Christian was yelling at William and flailing his arms around to protect his truck. Eventually William had to leave the room to calm down and then was given his turn with the yellow truck.

Pure happiness. And now the truck is hidden away. It might be awhile before it makes another appearance.