730 days old!

It's obviously  been a while since I've blogged because Sawyer's birthday was the first of the month.  I was talking to some of the women last night at our new bible study lamenting about the fact I've been so bad at blogging, but when I said it had been three weeks since I'd last written anything they all laughed! They said it had been months or even years since they had updated their blog! So on that note,  I guess I'm not as far behind as I could be. 

To recap....Soyboy's actual birthday landed on a Saturday which ended up being perfect. We bought tickets to ride the Pumpkin Liner in Horseshoe Bend and all the way there kept telling Sawyer he was going to ride on a REAL train. 

We got on board and sat down in the open air car. He was pretty excited to be sitting on a train, and got super excited when he heard the whistle blow right before leaving the station. 

That look of excitement soon turned to this worried expression below when the train started to move! 

He eventually relaxed and started to enjoy himself. Then he decided that standing would be a lot more fun than sitting so he went and stood in the aisle. Just stood there. Didn't move, didn't crack a smile, didn't hold on to anything, just stood as still as possible while trying to keep his balance as the train bounced along the tracks. I guess he was just taking it all in! It was pretty funny. 

After about half an hour the train stopped at a clearing where a bunch of pumpkins had been brought in. We all were able to pick out one to take home and Sawyer took the choosing of his birthday pumpkin very seriously.

This one's too heavy.  

This one's too bumpy.

Yep, this one is just right. 

On the way home he just sat on my lap and cuddled-something I really enjoyed since his busy two year old body doesn't normally like to chillax on mom's lap like he used to. 

Earlier in the week when Ben and Chantal were in town, Jett and Sawyer had a birthday party together celebrating the big #2! They both enjoyed their chocolate cake immensely and actually ate it with forks, a drastic difference from the way cake was eaten at their first birthdays!

  Since he had already had a party, we spent his actual birthday evening at home after the train ride. We started a tradition last year of making him a HUGE cupcake for his birthday and plan to continue doing that each and every so this year was no exception.  The only problem was, it didn't exactly turn out the way it did the year before, meaning it pretty much completely fell apart.

   

But hey, doesn't matter what it looks like as long as it tastes good, right?! And that it did. Sawyer definitely approved. 

Happy 2nd Birthday Soybean!!