erik's second birthday was last week, and the sunday before we had a nice little birthday party for him. both of peter's parents came to stay with us, and my mom, my brother adam, sister-in-law chrissy, and nieces morgan, marisa, and maggie all came over to celebrate. before the party i went out and got some balloons for erik. when he discovered them he was SO excited and ran all over the house with them.
we also took some time to pose for pictures with the birthday boy.
and my favorite:
the party went really well, and i think everyone had a good time. the penguins and steelers both played (and both won!), which made the guys happy. my mom brought KFC for lunch and peter's mom made two very delicious cakes:
erik got some really cool presents which he loved opening, and all the kids had fun with the TWO sets of musical instruments that he got. each set is really neat and contains different instruments. he's gotten especially good at playing the harmonica!
we had fun playing rock band too. it was chaotic with all the little folks around, but nothing can stand in the way of rock and roll! chrissy gave an exceptional performance on 'one way or another.'
we sang happy birthday, and lots of birthday cake was eaten (very messily by some!).
it was a really good day!
monday was mlk day and i had to spend some time at the lab. i came home early in the afternoon and peter took his dad to the airport while erik and i napped. i was exhausted from the party and all the preparations and the down time was much needed. that evening, peter's mom babysat so that peter and i could go to the melting pot for our belated anniversary dinner, a present from peter's dad and his wife jan (thank you to all three of you! we had an AMAZING dinner). the melting pot has become our favorite place to go for special occasions, and as usual it was really really nice.
afterward we took a brief stroll down to bessamer court to look at pittsburgh's lovely skyline. just as we approached the riverside a train came roaring past which made for some interesting pictures. we couldn't help but think about how much erik would have loved to have seen the choo choo. i took a little video of it that i still need to show him. we didn't stay long because it was freaking cold.
the next day was january 20, erik's actual birthday. i'll have to write the rest tomorrow because it's getting late and i need to go to bed!
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