Hank's 2nd Birthday

Friday was a big, big day for the Begley boys.  At 8:00 Grandad came by to assemble Finn's swing set - or as Finn calls it "my playground."   Grandad and Gigi got Finn a swing set as an early birthday present.  It arrived last Friday.  Finn has been going out to the garage to look at the boxes for a week now.  He was so excited.  In the car he told me that he was going to invite JT, Addison, Caroline and Mason to play on his playground.

Well grandad got more than he bargained for.  Both Finn and Sam wanted to "help."  Finn spent his morning taking the hand-holds (for his rock wall) out of the bag (even though we were nowhere near ready for them) and walking them around to the backyard.

We started assembling everything in the garage.  Sam was so interested in the process.  He was in dad's face the entire time.  He picked up and examined everything; safe or not.



At 10:00 Sam went down for a nap - he slept until 1:30 which gave us plenty of time to work.  While Sam snoozed Finn played on the platform of the new swing set.  We didn't have the steps upet y so every five minutes or so Finn would ask us to either lift him up or get him down.

At 1:30 it started raining.  I went to get pizza while Dad built the custom made rock wall in the garage.

Later that evening we went to Hank's second birthday party at Em's church.  It was the perfect place for a kids party.  It was big open and carpeted gym. Finn and Sam ran around the entire time.  Finn played with Hank for a long time while Sam ran around trying to get a ball.  Every time he got close he would accidentally kick it and it rolled away from him.

 

After the party we went back to Em's house to open presents.  Mom got a present for Finn and had big bubble letters on the wrapping.  I asked Finn what the letter spelled.  He pointed at each letter and said, "F" "one" "N""N".  I will miss having a sweet little toddler around.