He's 2

Who can believe that Justice turns 2 today?? This day two years ago (09/09/09, mind you) Justice entered our family and he has brought so much joy into our lives. He is a little bundle of boundless energy, laughter, mischief, and delight. He lives each day brimming over with joy and excitement. Though that often channels itself in questionable ways (hence Dennis the Menace), there is never a day that passes that he doesn't live life to the fullest. We are so thankful for him. I had some time this afternoon to look through some old pics of Justy's life and here are some of my favorites.

Remember his fauxhawk?

(obviously not Justy but who could possibly resist posting this face??)

We wanted to do some special things to celebrate Justy's birthday and also our Howie starts preschool Monday! He's going Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11:40-3:15. I've realized in the past few days that that's obviously going to change our schedule quite a bit but we're soo excited for Howie and I know that he's going to love it and do so well! Anyway this morning I took the boys to a zoo that's close to our house and they had a wonderful time! (All you STL people... this is nowhere near as big as the STL zoo and you have to pay for it!! Don't even know how to process after being spoiled for 3 years!!)

Straining to see the bald eagles- those were pretty awesome! We got to hear them screeching and that was crrraaazy!!

You know this was the highlight of the day- I'm grateful the Lord sent us to another place that has a zoo train! This was obviously a huge hit. Justy kept walking around the zoo after we got off saying "all aboard!!"

Look at this handsome boy... waiting for the train to come into the station.

The big 2 year old

The birthday boy eating breakfast... chocolate milk and a bagel. Does life get any better?? I think not.

We have birthday cupcakes and more partymaking to be had later!!