Jack's 2nd Birthday & 1st Ravens Game

We celebrated Jack's 2nd birthday to begin the month of October. It begin on his actual birthday, October 6 with the four of us and some yummy cupcakes! That Saturday was his "Madagascar Party" with family and close friends at our house. There aren't many pictures as my big camera was in the shop, grandmom and grandpop forgot their camera and daddy doesn't take pictures. :(  Given that the Madagascar movies are so "old" finding party supplies was very difficult. I made Marty, Melman, Alex and Gloria footprints for walking up the sidewalk, but most of what I found was on ebay including plates, napkins, coconut cups and mylar balloons. Though the boys' favorite decorations were the inflatable palm trees. They were running around and whacking each other with them as Joe was blowing them up. When it came time for the cake, we had a little situation that upset Jackson. Joey decided that it was necessary to take the airplane off of the cake and lick it clean for Jack. Needless to say, that did not go over very well. I think Jack was beginning his downward spiral toward nap time at that point so the tears came often after that point. It was capped off by the boys' babysitter Melanie walking in the door and Jack becoming hysterical because he thought Mommy was going to leave. He was down for the count before he could open presents. A scooter was his present from us and Joey picked out a remote control helicopter to give Jack. I will never forget Jack riding that red scooter around Toysrus/Babiesrus every time we went in the store for a month. He would literally ride it all over the store while I pushed the cart. When we would get to the front of the store to check out Jack would "park it" until the next time.

The next day, Jackson attended his first Ravens' game! He was so excited to go and wear his jersey. He just sat in his seat during pregame and took all of the sights and sounds in. Jack and Joey were great, but it really helped having grandmom and grandpop there when they got a little antsy! The best part of the day was watching them tackle each other outside of the stadium while waiting on Joe. While it probably wasn't the best time to be doing it with the stadium emptying, they were too cute and drawing a lot of oohs and aaahs from people walking by.