birthday bash

We are still in recovery mode from Eddie's 2nd birthday held on Saturday. 17 kids ranging in ages from 5 months to 8 years old, and 20-some adults were here to celebrate with our guy. I spent most of the time in the kitchen, as usual, so I didn't get to witness all the craziness, but I heard that Eddie was profusely drinking water out of his new water table, fighting over various balls and trying to steal other kids' juice boxes. Nice. At one point he was in the house and had a full-on breakdown because he wanted his friend Gabriel's toy motorcycle. I pulled him away and took him into the living room where his presents where stacked, and said, Eddie, look, all these gifts are for you. And he replied with an "oooh." It is one of his new sort of words, and he was "oooh"ing and "wow"ing all day and over the course of the next four days as we opened all the gifts slowly. He definitely had fun playing with the mix of neighborhood friends and friends of mom and dad; of course cousin Noah was present and in full playing force too. But he did seem overwhelmed. At one point he was just sitting on his Uncle Mike's lap, watching. When it came to cake time he didn't have much interest in blowing out the candle or really even eating the cake, as he was taken with mom's homemade cookies. The day ended with our annual balloon release. And alas, two mornings later Eddie woke up with the sniffles and now has a cold. Too much partying, I guess!