How old are you Tommy? "Peace"

Welcome to December. It's a celebratory time around the Martin house. We are one lucky family to be blessed with two healthy boys with so many people that love them. Everyone is so generous sending many packages beginning with Tommy's birthday. Our house kept UPS and FedEx in business that's for sure. And, since birthday and Christmas fall in the same week, there has to be a building strategy for Dad. Every night, Mike entered Dad/Santa's workshop to build all the fun toys (beer in hand :) Nice work!

Tommy turned TWO on December 17th - woo hoo - we survived 2 years - amazing. For a while, all Tommy would say is "one, three, one" avoiding two for some reason. His Aunt Beth taught him the peace sign last summer so whenever we held up two fingers, it automatically was peace. He has come around though and now says two. Where does the time go? We can only say how amazed we are at watching Tommy grow; he is no longer a baby (although always our baby) but is a little boy with many, many opinions :)

We opened many fun packages throughout a few days. On Sunday the 19th, Gigi and Papi arrived Colorado and they joined us for Tommy's "Thomas" themed bday. As you all know, Tommy loves choo, choos and has become quite the fan of Thomas, Sir Top in Hat and his Special, Special. How he picks up on this stuff is beyond me.

Thanks to everyone who shared in celebrating our big 2-year-old - both near and far.

Let what we like to call "the week of Tommy's birth" begin...yikes!

Checking out my new fireman house from Grandma and Grandpa. Building session number one (not too bad). Pretty cool!

My dad is good at making "coptor" sounds and I'm not so bad at mimicing them.

Pumped about the Thomas paper. What could it be?

A Thomas tent and tunnel.... I love tunnels. On your mark.

Get set...

GO!!

And my first Thomas train set - choo, choo

I LOVE buses too. Often caught singing "round and round, swish, swish, swish, waa, waa, waa" - different rounds of Wheels on the Bus. Thanks, Nana!

And I love to help Daddy fix things. This tool bench will help me practice. Thanks Gigi and Papi! (building session #2).

Happy Birthday! Tommy enjoying the company of many cute friends for pizza, cake and ice cream. They played, ate and then enjoyed a book exchange - everyone bringing a favorite book (wrapped) and then picking one from under the tree to take home. Crazy but not too overwhelming...

He loved his conductor hat!

Cake time from my Thomas themed cake

Danny's exhausted from all the activity

Chilin' with Papi

A few tears as friends leave. Tommy seemed to have had a fun time with his pals.

Opening a few things from Aunt Beth. Check out my Train Engineer book!

A new "Ack Chalk" sweatshirt and my first children's dictionary.

As always, Danny just chills during the madness in his seat. Sporting his new baseball outfit.