Lucas's 2nd Birthday (the actual day)

Yesterday, Tuesday, June 16, was Lucas's 2nd birthday. At 10:33 AM, to be precise. He went to daycare since they had a party for him (our daycare provider ROCKS!), and then he came home to a couple new presents that we saved from his birthday party so he'd have something to open on the real day. Not that he knows one way or the other, but it made the adults happy.

In our first video (of two), Lucas discovers his first big present of the day, a new sand and water table. We all felt kind of bad since he only got to play with it for about 10 minutes before we dragged him off to dinner. His shrieking as we carried him off attested to his approval of this gift.



A photo of Lucas at the aforementioned sand and water table.


For his birthday, we brought him to Baton Rouge, a restaurant in Kanata that has some of the best BBQ ribs I've ever had. For his second birthday, we decided it was about time Lucas had his first taste of ribs and why not start with some of the best? This first photo is taken prior to getting the ribs. Lucas was eating anything we put in front of him, particularly chips and spinach dip. Heck, at one point, he dipped an orange slice into sour cream. Wacky child.


Years from now, when Lucas is a glutton like me, he can look back at this photo and see where his love affair with ribs began. Gotta love technology.


It probably shouldn't come as a surprise, given his love for fruit, but he enjoyed the cinnamon apples as well. Here, he tries to cram the entire bowl into his mouth at once.


I'm not sure why, but I also took this video of him eating said apples. Not the world's most thrilling video.



When we got home, we gave him the GeoTrax Grand Central Station that my mom had brought up from the States (so much cheaper down there). Apparently, he loved this thing at a friend's house, so we decided to get it for him. If last night's enthusiasm with the remote controlled train was any indication, this present was a major winner. On a sidenote, I'd just like to thank Fisher Price for making a product for kids that goes together easily. That thing you see in the picture? Took me about 10 minutes total to put together. On the opposite side of the spectrum is Little Tikes, who I would love to see go out of business (and quite possibly be cast into the bowels of hell). Putting together a Little Tikes product is a masochistic ordeal since they typically either leave out a piece or use the most insanely difficuly building processes they can think of. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have many competitors up here so I'm stuck buying their junk. Okay, rant over. Here's the train.


The neat thing about the GeoTrax set is that it expands so you can buy other sets or just more track pieces and make that thing as big as you want. I think Lucas is going to have a blast with that over the next few years.

Lastly, a picture of the birthday boy in his birthday shirt (enjoying his train, as you can tell). Happy 2nd birthday, Lucas!