Dos Años!

I can't believe our little boy is 2 already! Our lives have been a bit crazy lately, so Evan has had multiple small birthday celebrations instead of one big one. To start off, Grandma and Grandpa Heemstra sent a birthday gift of Evan's first tricycle. He had fun helping Daddy put it together, then took a spin around the living room.


All of this made us very thirsty, of course. The tricycle had a bell on the handlebars, which Evan loved, but turned out to be deeply traumatizing to our dog Nicky, so the bell has come off until we move and Evan can ride his bike outside in the driveway.


For Evan's birthday, we made his favorite dinner of fish sticks and sweet potato fries, and we were all set to have birthday breakfast the next day, but instead we were up at 4 am and on our way to the airport to fly to Utah. So, we waited until Grandma Cary came out to visit (which also involved fun birthday toys) and enjoyed our birthday breakfast of bacon and cinnamon rolls.


Not really part of the official birthday celebration, but today was a GORGEOUS day in Boston, so we headed downtown on the T and played at the Frog Pond playground for a while, then walked around the Common and through the Public Park. In an ode to Evan's Dutch heritage, we even took a few pictures next to the beautiful tulips that were in bloom.


After all of this playing, we enjoyed a nice lunch, followed by a leisurely stroll through the North End and a sleepy T ride back home.