Happy (early) 2nd Birthday, Emmanuel :)

QUESTION:  What does a mama do when her 2nd child is due 5 days before her firstborn turns 2?  

a.  Have the party on the child's birthday no matter what! 

b.  Have the party right after the baby is born to celebrate them both! 

c.  Don't have a party at all because you are big, tired, and hot! 

ANSWER:  None of the above.  This mama had her firstborn's birthday party about a month early to make sure that he was celebrated before all of the labor, delivery, newborn chaos!  

People who know E say, "You can't miss Emmanuel" because he pretty much likes everything there is to like (balls, balloons, bubbles, Barney, tools, etc)...but he gets especially excited about BIG trucks (like dump trucks, bulldozers, etc), and if it is a BIG truck that makes noise--you have captured his heart.  So, our theme for his special 2nd birthday: FIRETRUCKS!  

In an attempt to make sure everybody knew the theme was firetrucks, I went a little overboard with the firetruck paraphernalia.  The cake pictured above is an example...now when Emmanuel sees a cake he makes the sound "whooa whooa" (like a siren) because he had cake in the shape of a firetruck! 

He had a firetruck shirt from one of his cousins (this child has more clothes than you could ever imagine--thank God for hand-me-downs!)  And I bought a fireman's hat from Michael's.  

But besides the cake, hat, shirt, invitations, balloons, a specil firetruck sippy cup, and everything else that may have indicated that it was a firetruck theme...we had the Brentwood Fire Department come out and visit with E for his birthday!  

Now, at first E was real timid and wouldn't let me put him down.  I mean, this was a BIG truck that made lots of noise and had lots of gadgets!  

But, after his cousins arrived at the party...he got up in the driver's seat and was running around like a crazy man! 

(Somehow my nephew Michael snuck this Tennessee Vols hat on top of E's fireman hat!) 

 

Emmanuel even climbed inside of the truck with the support of James IV and Mimi. 

He had a great time with his firetruck birthday party!  
And he and the other kids enjoyed their cake...or their "whooa, whooa!" 

Happy 2nd Birthday, Emmanuel!  We love our little fireman!