Aaron's 2nd Birthday

I know this is really delayed as it was a month ago, but (AGAIN) I lost my camera with all of the pictures.  But now I have since found it (my parents had it but thought it was my sister's in New York, so they were just waiting until she visited again!) and now can post them!

Aaron LOVES to help me cook, so he helped out with the making of his cupcakes.  He had lots of fun, but was super nervous with the mixer and wouldn't touch it.  We decorated them as soccer balls, basketballs, and baseballs but I forgot to get a picture.

We went to a park in Clinton and invited the immediate family, and I was impressed that everyone came that wasn't on a mission (Aaron has two uncles currently serving)!  Thanks family!  You are all so awesome!  It meant a lot to us and I know Aaron enjoyed seeing everybody.

Aaron and his cousin Ella (whom Aaron ADORES!  He'll look for her at our place sometimes or point to the door and say her name.  And when we do go visit her, he gets so excited when I tell him.  It's so cute!) played pretty much the whole time.  It took some work to pull him away to have cake or open presents.  And when we did get him seated for his cupcake, he BAWLED when we all started singing.  It was sad and funny at the same time.  I guess just all the attention and singing scared him or made him nervous.  Either way, he got happy really fast once he had a bite of cake.  And he LOVED his presents.  He got quite a few balls... everyone definitely knows our boy!  He also got a fire truck/emergency vehicle that has sirens that go off.  He has loved that since we got home, but the sirens would ALWAYS make Trae cry.  It was funny to watch sometimes as Trae would be fine once the sirens stopped, and cry if they went off again.  But that toy has since stayed in Aaron's room as it really was a problem for poor Trae.  But here are the pics.  I have now misplaced my video camera (I know I know, I am absolutely horrible) so I don't have any videos, but figured they don't really work anyways.

Making cupcakes!

My sister Candice was in town from New York!  Yeah!

Aaron bawling after we sang.

But enjoyed the cupcake.

Signing "all done" which surprised me with a cupcake!  I expected him to say "more!"

He got this CUTE monkey chair.  He LOVES it and the fact he can put a drink in it.

Getting so big... can drink from a water bottle all by himself :)

But his birthday was quite a success, super fun with all of the family, and seemed like Aaron had a blast.  Thanks everyone for making it special for him!