Birthday with Grandma and Grandpa

We decided to celebrate William's birthday on Saturday with Grandma and Grandpa because they had to leave Sunday and Daddy needed to work on Monday. Not that William knew the difference. When he got up that morning, all his presents were sitting out and ready. After all the Christmas-ing our family did, William is a pro at opening presents and he didn't want to waste any time. However, we had people meeting us at our house to go to the Clarksville, MO Eagle Days. So we we picked one present to open and then quit so everyone would be ready to go!

William loves to open presents! (who doesn't?)

Yay! It's a puzzle....wait, haven't I already played with this? (Answer: yes! William found this in my closet a few weeks ago while I was putting away clothes. I had to sneak it away from him in order to wrap it up)
He also opened a card that came in the mail from Grandpa Heidt. William LOVED this Cars card (he hasn't seen this movie as it is rated PG, but it doesn't stop him from loving cars!). He carried this card with him everywhere that day. To the changing table, to the dinner table, EVERYWHERE!

Later that night, we went to one of our favorite restaurants: The Texas Roadhouse for dinner.

William was NOT cooperating with the camera..but I think this face is funny

Eating his dinner and hamming it up

After dinner it was time to open the rest of the presents! He loves his new "packpack" from GranGerry and Grandpa Tom!

Helping Grandpa put toys in the new backpack
Opening an Elmo card - another favorite!
Testing out the plastic food from GranGerry and Grandpa Tom - delicious!
Reading a new book with Grandma (from Grandma and Grandpa)

And then FINALLY it was time for birthday cake! Luck for me, William is pretty easy going when it comes to cake. He'll happily eat anything (not so much true about any other food lately). So, we had chocolate cake with chocolate chips and chocolate frosting - can you guess what Mama is craving? When we brought the cake out, William squealed "BIRTHDAY CAKE!" I'm not sure how he knew what it was, but he was positive this was a BIRTHDAY CAKE!

The chocolate-y cake
William checking out his cake. He is wearing the shirt I made for his birthday that says: WARNING: I'M TWO!!
We were getting everything set up for cake and Grandpa left to go to the bathroom quick. Unfortunately, we were quicker and William ended up having to wait for a minute for Grandpa to rejoin us. I was holding his hands so he wouldn't touch the cake when he announced "BITE!" and leaned forward to do just that. He took a bite out of the side of the cake.

We were all laughing so hard, he leaned forward and did it again. I didn't have any hands left to stop him and I was laughing so hard it didn't matter anyway!

The cake after William took a few bites
The eating of the cake and wearing of the birthday hats!
Yay! Now with chocoate ice cream (what? you thought I would pick a different flavor? Guess again)
All done and straight to the tub!
Watching videos with Grandpa on YouTube the next morning
Coloring and wearing his "packpack"
A more serious approach to the coloring. Note the plastic bag behind him. This was part of another present containing a Hotwheels rug. He liked the rug, but LOVES this plastic bag (or "other packpack") even more.
More coloring