Happy Birthday!!

It is amazing how much can happen in a year. From walking to running, from stomping to jumping, from writing to painting from "sleeping" to really sleeping! Our year has been so much fun. Steve and I remind ourselves every day how lucky we are to be parents and how blessed we are to be parents to Ky. He has filled out lives with so much joy and awe. Who knew how much a 2 year could do and learn every single day?! We are constantly amazed. Here are a few pics from his birthday party we had a few weeks ago.

Playing in the dirt- yum!

Thanks Logan!

Gabe and Logan were very helpful opening presents.

Birthday cake- much better than dirt.

Kisses from Kylan's favorite cousin Sadie. She has perfect duck lips for kissing!

Singing Happy Birthday on his actual birthday, the 29th. We were visiting great Granddad and Grandma. Since this weekend Kylan has loved being sung "Happy Birthday" to each day. He even started squealing happy birthday yesterday when the muffin he had for breakfast reminded him of a cupcake!

Moo! Baa! Quack!

At the beginning of May (yes, I'm a little behind...) we went to the Oregon Ag Fest in Salem. My friend MaryAnne told me that her daughter Lily loved it last year. So we decided to trek up there on a Sunday morning and were pleasantly surprised. For only $7 per adult (kids free) Kylan got to pet pretty much any farm animal you could think of. He ran around going Moo! Baa! Quack! for over an hour scaring more animals and people than I would like to admit.

Ice cream at 11 am? Sure! It was daddy's idea after all...

Inside one of the buildings they had areas of play for different types of agriculture. Kylan could have played in these corn pools forever. He also made a button, planted some strawberries and snacked on fresh pancakes. Next year- the mini tractor races!

Kylan slowly getting used to oversized animals and characters. It took him 5 minutes to warm up but then was hugging him and giving him 5's. When it was time to go he cried and waved bye all the way to the car.

Egg Extravaganza

This Easter Kylan got REALLY into hunting for eggs. He had an egg hunt at school the Friday before Easter and had a great time looking for them while the teachers and Grandma re-hid them. Also, we probably did a dozen egg hunts each night after dinner. How many different places can you hide plastic eggs in a living room? We found out! Then on Saturday we went to the Megga Egg event at Splash water park which had a ton of fun stuff to do including egg hunts just for his age group.

Ready, Set...

Go!!

The closest he would let the bunny get to him.

He didn't want his face painted so he got an egg on his hand.

The cookie he got from the "cake walk" lasted him all morning. He savored every bite.

Back at Grandma's dying eggs.

World of Color

This is the video from the water show, World of Color, we saw at California Adeventures. Sorry, Kylan's head is in the way for a bit of the video. :)

It's a Small World

The first ride we went on in Disneyland. We could have done it 10 times and I think it would still have the same effect on Ky.

Disneyland and more

Whew! We left late last Friday, (after an exhausting week of conferences and report cards for me) and flew to CA to spend time with Auntie Katie and Uncle Rick. While there we hit a few LA highlights. Griffith Park and Americana on Saturday (Nordstrom Rack too!), Disneyland and California Adventures on Sunday. Then after a lazy Monday morning we flew back to Eugene. We had a great time but it was crazy fast!

Auntie had an Easter basket waiting for Kylan...

Blowing bubbles

At Griffith Park- There were pony rides for kids; we chose the tamest route. We saw 5 year olds trotting around a race track! Good thing we chose this pony going in circles; Kylan wasn't so sure...

Waiting for the train to go around the park. All weekend (and ever since we got back home, he has been saying and playing "choo choo!")

Loved the ice cold snow cone- it was 95 degrees that day!

Here we come Disneyland! Riding the tram from the parking garage to the park.

The Mickey ears (embroidered with "kylan" on the back of course) were $20. He kept them on for a total of 2 minutes the entire day.

First ride, It's a small world, one of my favorites and Grandma Beards favorite too. Bummer was we had the song stuck in our heads all morning.

Kylan was mesmerzied and had this look on his face on basically all the rides. He was never really afraid (ok, one ride in toon town that had a 45 minute wait and lasted 5 minutes for the ride, did scare him a bit).

He loved just running around and exploring

Ah, the characters. I was bummed because we put so much emphasis on Mickey Mouse the few weeks leading up to this trip and never got to see him. By this time in the day Ky was getting tired and was ready for a nap. The waiting line for Mickey was 70 minutes and in the sun. We "settled" on Goofy, a 5 minute wait, but as you can tell Ky wasn't so sure up close. In line he was all smiles, waving and laughing at Goofy but when we got close- a whole different story!

They give out "1st visit" buttons for the newest visitors.

We watched this 3D movie based on the Bug's Life movies. Ky jumped out of Auntie's lap when the first bug came flying at him. Once we took the glasses off he was fine. He didn't even mind the water squirted at him,the fake fart smell they pumped in or the giant spiders that dropped from the ceiling.

This water/light/movie show (in California Adventures) was totally worth the 90 minute wait for a good view. The show was about 30 minutes long and featured a dozen movie clips in the water spray and over 1,000 different jets pumped water to the music. Amazing!



Ah... It was 10:00 and we were all exhausted. We had such a great time and were so glad that Brian was able to meet us too.

We bought this bubble gun at the park to play with while waiting in line. Kylan loved it of course.

"Bye Bye California"

Park

Steve and Kylan headed to the park on Sunday (while I worked on report cards, blah!).

Along the walk Kylan has to pick up a rock at least every 5 paces and throw it. Check out the rock hovering above his head.

Looking for cones in the tree

And when I went to pick them up... guess who winded up picking out slivers?