Gavins Birthday party!

Well this year we wanted to do something a little different for Gavins birthday party, So we decided to take him to the zoo for the first time and have a little family party there, it was AWESOME! Here they are at the beginning playing with the big ball! As soon as Carson saw this outside the monkey house he was in LOVE I think he stopped at everyone and had a drink!

As usual Gavin was right there ready for his turn! They added new horses and the boys loved the ride!

This was so fun because the weather was perfect and the animals were all right at the window interacting with people and very active!

They have some very interesting new signs at the Zoo but this was my favorite!

We decided to stick with the pretend tigers after we read that sign!

We had to get this picture, who doesnt have at least one of these pics of their kids!

After we looked at the animals we had cupcakes, we went to Walmart to get the cupcakes and they didnt have any boys ones so the lady asked Gavin his favorite color and he said green, then what he likes and he said cars. She made him green frosted cupcakes with orange frosing inside and cars on top, it was great!and as you can tell they tasted SO GOOD!

Gavin was not as interested in opening his presents as he was in the train going by, Carson on the other hand could barely wait for Gavin to get them open! He got a Thomas the train and a new trainset, the first in our house!

Then of coarse we rode the train, both the boys had a blast and Im so glad we chose to do this for him instead of a party, it was the best! Gavin had his 2 year appointment and at 20 months he was still not on the weight chart but at his 24 month he was in the 8th percent, thats the first time EVER in his life he has been that high! He is 23 pounds 14.58 ounces. He is 34 1/4 inches tall and thats the 45% also the highest he has ever been. It was so great to see how excited EVERYONE in the office was when they found out how great he was doing, we also returned a fixture that has been in our house since he was 8 months old and that was the old medical scale we had to have to weigh him weekly at home. WHEW! It seems this is all over! Carson got his Kindergarten shots the same day and later had a rash all over his head and neck, they said it happens with the MMR, it looked like a measels rash, that was creepy!