Jack hits the big 2.0

Mama made a German Chocolate cake for this year's festivities. Our stove is a little off-level so the layers came out a bit crooked. Nevertheless, the cake may have had the best texture of any made in the B-C household in recent memory. Thanks Cindi for the recipe! Jack's grinning commentary: "There's caaaaake." Hard to believe how grown up he's starting to look...



At our several Christmas celebrations, Jack was fairly inundated with presents. We kept his birthday small in scale. One of his favorite new acquisitions was a motorcycle....

Jack was also gifted with JJ, the doll that Daddy had when he was a little boy. Jack has shown a remarkable amount of affection for JJ, even going so far as to share some of his toy cars and trains with him. (We haven't seen him do as much with a live kid. We theorize that he recognizes all of his own gotta-look-out-for-number-one tendencies in other young children so he refuses to try very hard at collaborative play.)


This weekend we'll have to get pictures of him in the kiddie coup from Aunt Melanie.