Little Guy in the Big City: Bryce's birthday

We had so much fun celebrating Bryce's 2nd birthday today!

We started with birthday bagels.

After we dropped Chris off at school, it was Bryce's turn for Toys R Us. Here's his happy birthday balloon and crown!

We had to do the ferris wheel! Bryce was really excited (not that you can tell from this picture : ).

Here's his happy (but a bit blurry) face.

Then, it was toy time! We have the tradition of letting the kids pick out their own presents on their birthday. This has nothing to do with me being unprepared for the big day : ). Bryce scoured the whole store. It was hilarious. He would hold one toy, see something different, and then hand me the old toy and pick something else up. He was very excited about the plastic animals.

He was also a fan of the Duplos. This picture makes me laugh. He started out looking at a small set. He would look over and see another bigger set, and then another. This is where he ended. Sorry bud, no way is that fitting in the cab with us on the way home!

Here are a couple of photo ops in time square. Total chaos! Of course we were there after the Cookie monster incident. We were having to fight off costumed people left and right.

Could he be any cuter?

We made a quick stop at the diner on the way home for some silver dollar pancakes.

Conan took half the day off, and picked up Chris from school. When they got home, it was present time. Bryce was pretty excited to unwrap all of the presents he had just picked out!

This picture is very deceiving. It looks as if Chris and Bryce were peacefully playing with Bryce's new Duplos. They were not. Bryce wanted to build a super tall tower. Chris wanted to build the cars exactly how they were on the box. It wasn't a pretty sight. No worries. They each got a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figurine that could beat each other up, and all was solved!

Bryce's current favorite food is Bobby (bbq). We took him to Blue Smoke. He wasn't a huge fan of their sausage this time, but ate his weight in mac and cheese.

They had the boys decorate a cookie before the meal, and they cooked it while we were eating. After we finished they brought it back out and we sang Bryce Happy Birthday.