I always interview each of my kids on their birthday. Gavin is still a man of few words, so I will answer to the best of my abilities. I guess I know him better than anyone right?
Favorite food: "pee pah" which means pizza
Favorite fruit: strawberry
Favorite veggie: broccoli or sweet potatoes- it's a close tie on this one
Favorite drink: "jew" which means juice
Favorite treat: anything sweet
Favorite toy: his construction trucks-digger, dump truck, loader, excavator, and fire trucks
Favorite sport: basketball
Favorite movie: none yet
Favorite color: green. every time I ask him what color things are he says "geen" for green. (you know we train them young! If there was only one color in this world it would be green for this family. go green!)
Favorite place to go: the park
Favorite sea animal: none
Favorite land animal: dogs and cows
Favorite activity to do with dad: wrestle
Favorite activity to do with mom: snuggle and read stories before bed
Favorite activity to do with Xavier: light saber battle
Favorite Book: Hug and Goodnight Gorilla
Favorite song: Gavin loves to dance to music. He always moves his arm up and down with a fist to tell me he wants music.
Favorite art activity: Painting; he also loves stickers
Favorite scripture story: none yet, but everytime I read him the story of Ammon and the sheep he points to the bad guys and says "bad!"
Favorite game: I take the boys to an open field by our house and have them race their cars. They are the cars. Gavin goes vroom vroom and races Xavier to the other end of the field. It's so cute!
What is something you've learned this year?: talk, walk, run, somersault, and now he's starting to jump and his feet are coming off the ground.
Who is your best friend: Jack
Who is your favorite teacher: Sister Batman and Sister Sweeney in nursery
What would you like to learn next year? Pedal a bike
What do you like about yourself? WE love Gavin's silly sense of humor
We had a small party to celebrate Gavin's birthday while Mary, Kathryn, and James were visiting. I attempted a small dump truck cake. You can definitely tell I am an amateur, but Gavin loved it and that's all that matters. (Please don't show it to the Cake Boss though)
2 candles for a terrific two year old! We sang happy birthday to him so much that day that he learned a new word "happy". He walked around all day saying happy, happy, happy. It was precious, because I could just wrap up his day into one word "HAPPY!"
He is one happy little boy! He just brings sunshine to our home every day!
He did a pretty darn good job blowing the candles too.
He didn't waste any time digging in!
Now this is the way to eat a cake. Forks and spoons just get in the way.
We had a construciton themed BBQ party for Gavin's birthday celebration. We invited some of Gavin's favorite people: Tricia, Dave, Lydia, Lauren, and Jack Folsom; Catherine, Curtis, Jonathan, and Kaitlyn Vielstich, Henry and Saji Roberson, and Karina and Sebastian Guerrero.
I set up the house to be like a construction area. Here is the "Building Zone" equipped with lots of building blocks.
It was a little windy so I couldn't get a good shot of the front door. You get the idea.
"Hard Hat Area" filled with tools, hard hats, vests, and building projects.
Some signs I used around the rooms for decor.
Digging area- the favorite sand box.
I decided to keep the cake simple. I just made brownies, cut them up and put them inside his dump truck to give the illusion of dirt. So easy and perfect for the theme!
We had all sorts of BBQ favorites: watermelon, veggies and dip, chips and salsa, chicken, hamburgers, and hot dogs.
Another dessert I made were dirt cups.
One minor detail I missed- I forgot to empty the pool before the guests arrived. Naturally the kids eventually gravitated toward the water and Gavin dove right in. Then he started to "recruit" others by filling up some of the cones and dumping it on their legs. It became a game for him which he loved and a small water fight ensued. He definitely became the life of the party. We all had a good laugh watching him and Brother Vielstich (who is 6+ feet tall) toss water at one another.
Gavin is literally jumping in the air and landing on his toosh while Jonathan tries to stay as dry as he can and still tease Gavin.
I should have made it a pool party.
The tool boy and his tool dad!
Enjoying some dirt!
Gavin with his favorite lady! Gavin adores miss Kaitlyn. She always has stickers for him at church.
Gavin had a blast opening his presents and seeing all the "prizes", which are surprises.
Gavin sure enjoyed being the center of so many people's attention.
This little two year old's party sure was a bulldozing smashing good time.
