Ryland is 2!!

It's official ... Ryland is 2!!!!

His birthday fell during Pete's (and Kylee's) Spring Break so we were all home and ready to celebrate with him. Every time I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday he said "go to farm." We decided to head up to the Reston Zoo to see all the animals and let him feed some too! He was very excited to see the animals and was even feeding most of them himself! We left the barn (due to an incident which will be discussed later!?) and headed out to see what else we could find. The kangaroos were very active and the kids really liked watching them jump around. Then we went on the wagon ride to see the "big" animals. Kylee wanted to sit in the middle of the wagon - she hadn't quite warmed up to feeding the animals yet - but Ryland sat on the outside with Pete where he could help feed some of the animals including the bison and watusi!

So, the incident I mentioned before happened in the barn. Ryland was having a grand ole time feeding the goats and walking around with Pete. The girls and I were over near one of the "calmer" goats trying to get Kylee to feed him. Then we heard Ryland start to wail. : ( Apparently, one of the chickens heard it was Ryland's birthday and decided to get up close and personal to tell him Happy Birthday! Yep, one of the chickens flew at Ryland and got him right in the face!?!? When Pete went over to get Ryland the chicken flew at him too!? (Needless to say Pete gave said chicken a swift kick!) Luckily, after Ryland recovered from the shock of the "chicken attack" he was just fine and went on to feed the big animals without even blinking an eye! He did end up with a nice little mark on his face though . : ( (Don't worry we stopped and got Chicken McNuggets on the way home just to get revenge.) : )

We stopped at a cupcake place on the way home to let the kids pick out their own cupcake. Ryland picked out an Oreo cupcake and was very excited for us to sing Happy Birthday to him!

Kylee was very excited to give Ryland his presents so that was next up. Once he saw the presents and started opening them he was pretty excited too. : )

We still needed to take a picture of Ryland in his birthday shirt so after putting on his Lightning McQueen pajamas (his new obsession!?) we took a few pics in his big ole birthday shirt!

Ryland loved being serenaded by "Happy Birthday" throughout the day (thanks Nana, Grandad, Aunt Amy, Jack, Bubba, and Aunt Laura!) Then he got a great surprise ... a birthday video!!! (I couldn't upload it in one shot because of it's size so it is broken into two halves.) Thanks ... he still loves watching it! : )