My Baby is TWO!

I guess when I signed off last week, I failed to mention that I was leaving town for a week and that is why I elected to submit my computer to the "doctor" that week instead of any other.  Well, the family and I went to visit my parents for a week.  While we were there, we celebrated my son’s second birthday.  What a bitter sweet day.  Now, I no longer have a baby.  I could claim he was still a baby while he was one, but now that he’s two he really is not a baby anymore.  That makes my heart ache just a little.  Now, on the other hand… I no longer have a BABY!  And when you say it like that, I’m one step closer to having a bit of life back.  And that makes my heart soar.  So… it’s bitter sweet.

As my first real post back at home, I thought I’d share a couple shots from his birthday.  These are not anything more than a mother’s snapshots capturing her baby on his birthday.  The flash was on (gasp!) and everything.  But I elected to just get the shots rather than try to use this as a masterful photographer’s artistic learning day.  So here you go.  My baby becomes a boy.

In case anyone is counting – there are 13 packages there for him to unwrap.  Isn’t that crazy?  Grandparents (only one set at that!), siblings and parents were all the givers.  But he loved them all.  He actually said "thank you" each time he was handed a new one to open.  Can you believe it?!  A two year old who says thank you?!  My mommy-pride is oozing right now.

A little aside… every wonder what my hubby looks like?  That’s him.  He’s the man who makes my toes tingle.  (Insert happy sigh here….)

It was a big Thomas the Train fest.  Most of the toys were related to the Thomas theme.  Probably 7 or 8 of them anyway.  The boy loves trains.

 

Here he is pretending to know what to do with that candle.  He never did blow it out.  He is also smitten with fire trucks lately which is why his loving Grammy ordered him a Fire Truck cake.  Now…  this woman can make a killer cake and decorate it to look like it belongs in a magazine or something.  I know because she made many for me and a couple for previous grand children’s birthdays.  But she had her three beautiful grandchildren visiting for only one week and she didn’t want to spend many hours doing that – so she ordered it.  I still think it’s lovely and he was all aglow over it.  Fire truck is one of the newest things he points out and talks about.

And just to prove my point about why this was not the occasion for me to attempt to play with f stops and turning the flash off… I tried one picture and this is what I got -

 

Sometimes, you just have to let auto-focus and the flash make the picture good enough.  This was one of those times.

And my final picture of the event.  I think it might be my favorite from the birthday party – not in a technical way… just in a mommy-who-loves-her-kid’s-glee way.

Thank you for looking at my family photo album with me.  I promise to get back to photography lessons and reviews soon.