Matty turns two- or the tale of two birthday parties

It's official, our baby isn't a baby anymore he is an official "big boy". He is the happiest child you have ever met. He also talks and sings up a storm. His vocabulary is incredible and he jabbers all day long. He is our Mickey boy and has been known to walk around singing the Disney Junior jingle, I promise he doesn't watch  that much tv. He also loves to dress up as a super hero and to go to the park. He is adored by each family member and each family member adores him. He also is two so our tantrums have started and we have found he has as strong of a will as every other member of this family.

Because of scheduling problems we had two parties this year. One for family who would be out of town on his birthday and one who didn't. Matty was very excited for this. He kept saying he was going to have his "Mickey Happy birthday" party. This meant two cakes and two days of presents- what more could a two year old ask for.

Party #1 recap

There was a mickey cake- I did my best, I am not the best artist and it is even worse when I am working in a chocolate sauce medium. 

Matty got a "binky treat" (a ring pop) at nusery for his birthday that day, along with a cute badge. The binky treat casued much sticky drool which lead to a change of outfit...the badge stayed on though.

Good thing big sisters around to help us blow out our cupcake.

And it is great to have cousins that help us open our presents.

Matty was most please with the slide he got for his birthday. It was the best gift we could have gotten him and has already gotten a lot of use.

It was a fun party and Matty deemed it a success.

Flash forward six days to his actual birthday. Matty decides that this is going to be an awesome day as he gets another "Mickey party".  This, of course, must be coupled with a  Mickey outfit and the birthday badge. 

Matty told me on Monday he wanted a Mickey and Jake cake. Lucky for me they had both set of characters on sale at the Disney Store. I got both for him and was able to make his Mickey/Jake cake dream come true. 

At midnight the night before I got the great idea to make party hats with Mickey ears on them...I made three before I decided it was too much work. Matty loved it though, so did his cousin. 

He also really loved his birthday cake and he has loved playing with them since.

He also thought that opening presents was fabulous.

The second party was also deemed successful and our new two year old went to bed that night snuggling a new Goofy, Donald, and Jake toy while surrounded by his brand new Boynton books.

So happy birthday little Matty, you are and incredible boy who feels our life with joy and adventure every day.