He's 2!!!

We had a great time celebrating Kyler's 2nd birthday. I was out of town Wednesday through Friday for work, so we didn't go overboard on his party this Saturday. He had a motorcycle theme with lots of orange and black decorations.

The party was in Papa's garage which seemed fitting for a motorcycle party. We started the party off by having Kyler open his gift from Great-Uncle Greg and my cousin Kyle since they had to head to the races... and ended up winning!!!

He was pretty impressed with the NASCAR wrapping paper, and he was pretty particular about how he unwrapped gifts so this took a while. He had to get every last bit of paper off.

Greg's gift won for the most unique. It was a little figure with a funny face that made some crazy noises and leaned back and forth as you shifted gears. It got a lot of laughs and I think it's gotten more play from the adults so far than from Kyler.

Then we were on to cake and ice cream. Grandma Debbie made the cake and did a great job, and of course we had to have Grandma Tammy make her amazing homemade ice cream.

Kyler loved his cake and enjoyed having everyone sing happy birthday to him. He was able to blow out the candles one at a time (after we re-lit them after his dad accidentally blew them out). I ordered him a custom birthday shirt that fit the theme too.

He had to help cut the cake of course. Instead of eating the cake and ice cream, he was so proud to pass it out to his guests. He was the only one who didn't clean his plate.

Kyler got lots and lots of new toys (good thing we're moving to a bigger house!) and had a hard time opening each gift since the previous one looked like so much fun. He is a very lucky boy and did a pretty good job saying "thank you" after each gift (even if his guests had no idea what he was saying).

Of course Papa took the cake for the biggest gift. Kyler got a motorized tractor with two detachable wagons. He did not want to get off of his tractor for a couple of hours. We wondered if he would sleep in the tractor. He was a little timid of making it go, but did manage to almost run into a few things throughout the afternoon.

Of course, the motorcycle birthday party would be incomplete without a couple of Harleys present. Jesse is a family friend who Papa texted that morning and he didn't disappoint. Not only did he bring his bike, but also got Kyler a matching purple toy motorcycle that he didn't put down for about 2.5 hours that evening.

Great Grandpa Remi's bike was also present, and Kyler even got a ride on it as the party was winding down. He was pretty scared to get on but once he did he did not want back off. He is officially our little biker.