Walker is o{fish}ally 2!

Walker is 2! It is crazy to me to think that I have a two year old, that two years ago I gave birth to my little man. I couldn't imagine life without him now. He is always right by my side, wanting me to join him and play with him. He is such a cute little guy and a fun little boy. He is not a baby anymore that is for sure.

Walker's two year old stats:
35 inches tall (60%)
25 pounds (14%)
Says about 25-30 words
Loves fish, ducks, and birds.
Favorite movie : Toy Story.
Loves being outside at the park, beach, or anyplace where he was walk around and explore.
Loves going to grandma and grandpa Schroeder's house and FaceTime with grandma and grandpa Theobald
Loves watching old cartoons like Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse
Loves music. Can tell you what xylophone, violin, drum, and trumpet is.
Knows the colors yellow and blue. learning red and green (can tell you what they are sometimes)
Picky eater but loves breakfast foods and bananas.

To celebrate his birthday we throw a party for him. Since he loves fish we decided to have it be fish themed. I made the invites on photoshop. I love using my creative side to throw parties and create invites for parties or anything. I think the invites turned out way cute.

We wanted the party to have more kids and be mostly family and close friends. It was a great turn out. My mom was able to come for the weekend, which was awesome to be with her and have her there to celebrate with us. I made a banner and some fish for the "aquarium" I wanted to create on a wall. We made the cake look like a fish as well. We did a small lunch like sandwiches, jello, salads and fruit. I also made fish sugar cookies with a little thing of bubbles for a goodie bag. The decor turned out great. I got mostly everything at the dollar store or target (my two go to places for parties) and also did a lot of DIY projects (happy birthday banner, aquarium wall, signs and fish around the party).

We had a great time at the party. Walker loves getting his presents but could really care less about opening them himself (maybe that will change next year). We had Casey's dad do some magic tricks for everyone while we ate and talked while the kids played with toys. It was apparently too much fun since Walker decided to take a snooze right as we were singing him happy birthday and bringing out the cake.

Walker dead asleep on Grandma Robin.

Even though Walker might not be able to remember it, I wanted him to be able to know that he is loved and also that your birthday is a special day and you should celebrate it no matter how old you get. It is always fun celebrating a special occasion with family and friends.

On his birthday we went to.. you guessed it... Disneyland! Walker loves going to Disneyland. Robin and Diane joined us for the day. We wanted to do some new things that day and some things that we know he loves. So for the new things we went to Disney Jr. (we have done this before but haven't done it in a long time so it is pretty much a new thing to walker), played some arcade games on the pier and won Walker a dumbo, went on the Mickey's Fun Wheel and met the one and only Captain America (I was speechless when meeting him). We of course did our usuals too, Buzz, Toy Story Mania, Little Mermaid, Winnie the Pooh, and many more. It is always fun going to Disneyland and having explore.

After we went to Disneyland, we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house to have pancakes and ice cream. Walker was very interested in the fire that was on the candle and wanted to touch it really bad. We told him no and kept taking his hand away while singing to him. He cried but it was his birthday so he could cry if he wanted too, right?

I want to wish Walker a very happy birthday and hope he has a wonderful and awesome year that is filled with many adventures and memories. I hope you, Walker, know that you are loved and that you will always be our little boy no matter how fast you grow up and how big you get. Love you buddy!

♥ The Schroeders

Walker's Mickey Birthday Party!

Some say that having a birthday party for your one year old is a little over the top. but i think why not! i love planning parties and thinking of all of the decorations and cute things i can do for the party. sow when it came time to start thinking about walker's first birthday party i couldn't resist of doing mickey mouse. he loves watching mickey mouse clubhouse and disneyland. it was perfect! i saw a cute invite on esty and told myself that i could do something like that myself so i designed it and sent them out. it was fun to use my creativeness again. 

casey doesn't like the super themed parties and i sometimes think they look tacky to be honest. so i did everything in black, red, and yellow to get the feel of mickey mouse without over doing it. we did have some stuffed mickeys for decorations but nothing to crazy. i wanted a banner to hang somewhere that said happy birthday. My friend Aubry helped me with the banner since i am not super crafty but now getting better at it.

we had some food out for people to eat like hot dogs and chips and dip with some mac and cheese and potato salad. I also had lemonade and also fruit punch for drinks with water as well. i didn't mean for all the food to be yellow and red but it turned out that way. we didn't get to take a photo of the food table but i wish we did because it turned out great! i had cupcakes because really i like cupcakes more than cake and it is less messy in my option. I found an idea for the cupcakes on pinterest. they turned out way cute! thank goodness for pinterest!

walker got many presents from everyone that came. most of the presents had to something with disney or mickey mouse. what a surprise. i don't mind though. he loves them. most of his toys now are disney and mickey mouse. he got lots of toys and clothes. at first he didn't really know how to open the presents but once he figured it out he did great. once he opened the present he just wanted to play with the toy so it look a while to open them all. thanks everyone for the gifts.

Many people give their kid a cake for their first birthday to 'dig into'. I decided I didn't want to make a cake and then it just be all over the place. So I made a cupcake for Walker to 'dig into'. Just like the presents it took him a while to get the hang of it but once he tasted that frosting their was no stopping him. He just ate the frosting and smashed the 'cake' part. It was a mess but it was still fun.

Walker got to have some family that is usually not around there for his party. My Grandpa, that lives in Mission Viejo, came down with my parents. Grandma and Grandpa Rozsa came as well. The most surprised person that came was my brother, Alex. He is in Provo going to school at BYU and was heading to China the next month for the summer so it would have been the last time we got to see him before he left for China. It was fun seeing all of our family and friends there. 

Thanks to everyone to came and made the day a great one for Walker and us! We love you all!

♥ The Schroeder