Ed's birthday, part deux, take two, part 2

So this reads correctly, I had to mess with posting time. After we thought we wore the kids out, we went to have pizza and cake. This first picture is pre cake cutting, but a couple of the older kids were showing him how to sneak tastes of the frosting. The bakery had assured me that the cake would be just fine between Sunday and Friday--it was tasty, but a little crumbly. But it was chocolate!
Eddie had been singing 'Happy Birthday Eddie' for the better part of a month before his birthday. It cracked us up. We wondered how he would react to everyone singing it to him: well, here's his reaction. He ate it up! Dennis was telling him that everyone was singing it for him, and he was grinning ear to ear. It was absolutely adorable.

So I tried to think of all the details--cutting the grapes in half, bringing yogart for those kids who balked at the pizza (we had 5 different kids of pizzas), but I couldn't think of where to find mass quantities of toddler sized forks and spoons. There are these things called take and toss forks and spoons, but I don't think of them that way because they are pretty solid, so I didn't even give them a thought. Oh well, Ed seemed to do okay with this adult fork. He ate pretty much the whole piece.



I don't know if you can see it in this picture, but the brown on his pants is cake. He has some matching marks on the back of his pants, where he slid through the cake he'd gotten on his chair when he put his hand on the chair. This was after we cleaned his hands. There were many more cute pictures, I think I'll upload to Snapfish and can 'share' the photos if interested.

At none of the 2 year old parties we've attended have they opened gifts. I've learned the reason is because there is no time. You get one hour in each room and that's it. Plus, while Eddie definitely knows what to do with a present now, he still likes to relish in each gift afterwards for long periods of time. I like this quality and want to continue to encourage it, but it can make for gift opening to last a long time.