Special Day

Today is a particularly special day.  It's Regin's second birthday.  I'm absolutely thrilled (after his first birthday, where it was just the three of us in a foreign country, IN A HOTEL) that for this year's party, he will be surrounded by SO much family and friends.  Today we're trying to make some time for him too, even though there is so much to do.  I made Carob-swirl pancakes for breakfast (post grapes).

Then we had a few photo ops:

And right now, Regin is off with his Papi for Bilingual Storytime at the Denver Public Library.  I just made some practice carob candies:

And now I'm getting ready to go buy some milk paint (for the walls, not the food) and get the house ready for the electrician, who's finishing up his work tonight, and the drywall guys, who are hopefully coming in tomorrow.

Today is also the second anniversary of Regin's Abuelo's death.  He is terribly missed.  But I try to remember him on all the other days of the year, so there isn't a gray cloud that hangs over my little boy's day.  I do think that there will always be a special connection for Regin and his Abuelo though because they began/ended life on the same day, and because they share the name Oscar.  Not only that, but Regin looks so much like him!

We tell Regin about his Abuelo and show him pictures.  Abuelo is so real to him that he sometimes asks where he is.