One, two, buckle my shoe...

Austin is two years old. Hard to believe but it's true. We had a birthday party on the 26th with 3 of his friends. They had a good time playing with toys, old toys, new toys, and other people's toys that are left around the family area of our housing block.

We had the living room all decorated for his party when he woke up. He immediately noticed the balloons and played with the few that we had left on the ground. He helped to open all of his presents but kept getting distracted wanting to play with the new toys so one of his older friends helped out a bit. He did a good job trying to blow out the two candles on his cake. We had several different kinds, vanilla cake, chocolate cake, and cupcakes. Austin voted for a cupcake and enjoyed eating it in the messiest way possible. :-)

If you ask Austin how old he is now he will tell you, 'Two candles!'

Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful Christmas season and are ready to tackle another year. We enjoyed a visit from Grandma, Grandpa, and Antenna for Christmas. It was nice to have a full house during the holiday and Austin loved all the attention.

Austin enjoyed Christmas Day. In the picture above he is just getting in to his stocking, which was the first event of the morning (after breakfast, of course). The picture below shows him sitting in his chair with two new toys (Lightning McQueen and Mater) and watching his new DVD (Cars). He needed a little downtime to recover from all the excitement. Halfway through opening his presents we could tell that he was a little overwhelmed with everything but he continued to take it all in and have a lot of fun.

This year should see some exciting changes for us. We are planning a move back to the US at the end of March. That's about as far as we've gotten with the plan... no decisions yet as to where we will end up or what we will be doing. One step at a time. :-)