Two Year Old Taison

Happy Birthday "to You!" Taison loves to sing ever since an early birthday celebration a month ago. So when he turned two officially last Sunday, he was prepared and knew the song well.

Taison loved the attention and having some of his little buddies from the next door to run around with. It was raining outside at first so we hung out and drew a bunch of car tracks and train tracks on some butcher paper. The kids played on the table for a long time and then just had a good time wondering around the house playing toys.

A few hours before the party began, we threw together this cake and thankfully found the great idea online to save our lack of planning. We had a few race cars as a birthday present for him so we decided to make a race car birthday cake that I saw directions for online at http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/. I picked the easiest cake I could find that involved what random last minute things I had, two round cake pans, white frosting and green and black sprinkles. It was fun to make. Jon and I got really into it! :)

After the cake and presents we played with the bubble maker he got outside. It was crazy kid-heaven with bubbles everywhere and chasing as the main form of entertainment. He was cute and happy and the rest of us were happy to celebrate how old he is becoming! Here's an after it's over chilling picture with Daddy and Corynn.

Jon and Shaunae are having......

Boy or girl? What's the verdict? We are happy to announce that come end of October we will be adding another boy to our Ellsworth clan! I was slightly hoping for a girl to help even the odds for Corynn, but we are happy that a new little boy will be coming to our family. Jon's dream of having a soccer team might work, :). Ashton of course was very excited and has been bragging to Corynn ever since last night that there will be lots of boys in the house and boys will win. I have been convincing Corynn that means there will be one princess in the house and that will be her.
Since Taison has been walking, running etc. he and Ashton enjoys frequent wrestling, chasing and general horse play types of games in the house. So I'm imagining it'll be just that much more fun and rambuncious. But we are happy and he's healthy! Now for names! Ah! I had only picked out Marissa. We were thinking of going traditional just to be different for our family. So any cool or traditional name ideas you have would be cool too, so if you have any suggestions.... This time around we are probably actually going to get out the baby name books and take a peek. We have a tradition of using maiden names for the boys' middle names. I just like giving the boys some history. Ashton is Ashton Fielding and Taison is Taison Bennett. But the next few maiden names are names like Dial, Moore, Pinrow, Teague and Eule. So we might keep going back until we find some better :) names or drop the tradition :).