The Birthday Boy!

It's been another crazy couple of weeks and I've gotten behind with the blogging. Ben was traveling for work and I was pretty wiped from dealing with an intensely opinionated 2-year old (who might that be?) so didn't have the energy to start a blog post at 9:30 in the evening. Hopefully we can catch up a bit again this week before I'm the one who turns the table and heads out of town for a few days.

Jonah started his birthday day off by opening a few presents from us. We knew he would have plenty of them to open at his party on Saturday and that would be a lot for him to get through and focus on. Plus, it just seemed like he ought to have at least something to open on his actual birthday.  He'd received his main gift - an Imaginarium train table - a few weeks prior, as we'd found it at a garage sale and there really was no way to hide it from him. But we still had a few things for him to open, and boy did it take some convincing to get him to take any interest!

You mean I pull on the paper, like this??

He had some Little Mr. and Little Miss books to open, as well as a Lorax quilt that I made from some panels available from Robert Kaufman Fabrics. He passed over the books pretty quickly (but has since given them a fair amount of interest), but took great interest in the Lorax quilt, even climbing on the table to get up close and personal with it (we indulged the birthday boy):

Whoa - what is this - Lorax?????

It's soft and cuddly!

Cool - there's more on the front of the quilt!!!

I'm going to play on this right away!

I had to leave for a quick appointment with the eye doctor, but Grammy Sweets took Jonah to see the construction equipment and work going on over on 67th Street. We'd stopped by to check it out the day prior, but nothing much was going on that day. On Jonah's birthday, there was plenty of activity and he was thrilled to have seen it all. 

From there, we headed to the Milwaukee Public Museum to see the butterfly exhibit, some of the other displays, and a movie about the sun and moon in the Planetarium. Jonah did really well during the movie and the presentation before it that talked about the stars that are visible in the Wisconsin sky this time of year. It was really funny when he realized that there was an "E" on one wall (to indicate East) and yelled out "M" (he tends to get them confused). Moments later, he realized there was a "W" on the opposite wall and had to yell that out too ("W" is his favorite letter, other than perhaps "J").

Look at that butterfly on Grammy's purse! (It later landed on my arm and didn't want to leave.)

The remainder of the day included a nap, reading, painting with his watercolors, and video chatting with his cousins, amongst other activities.

Video chatting with Alex and Grant!

The day concluded by watching the Dr. Seuss video Gerald McBoing Boing (or has he says, Bang Bang) until Grandma and Grandpa Gregg arrived from Ohio. We don't watch it often, so it was a real treat, and it always gets some laughs from Jonah.

Grandma Gregg got the honors of reading and putting him to bed! Happy second birthday, my precious little bear!