Happy Birthday Carter Mac

Carter turned 2 today! We had a great day despite me being a little
meloncholy (read:sobbing my eyes out) about being away from friends
and family for his big day. It turned out wonderful though and I know
that some day we'll be able to tell him the story of his 2nd birthday
- a day spent in Rome!
First thing in the morning, M and G came and crawled in bed with us
and sang to Carter. Pretty sweet.
Once we got up and around we went to Explora. (you can google it) It
is a children's museum, and was really cool. Carter was thrilled with
it, and M and G were definitly happy to have a 'kids day!'
Afterwards, we grabed some pizza and walked to the Borghese gardens
for a picnic.
Finally, we took a long trek across the enormous gardens to the zoo.
It made us appreciate the Oregon Zoo, but it was pretty cool to see
species that the our zoo doesn't have - a camel, a pygmy hippo
(really!!!), and our favorite, the armadillos! If you've never seen
an armadillo, you'd better put it on your list- they are hilarious!
It got pretty cold and started raining while we were at the zoo, so we
had to huddle up near the lemurs for a while, and when things cleared
up, we headed back 'home'.
There we finished the celebration with a pasta dinner (too stormy to
go out), and an Italian cake, complete with a #2 candle. Carter was
pretty thrilled with the whole thing. Every time he'd walk by his
cake box, he'd point to it and say, "Happy?" During the day if we'd
ask him, "Who's 2?" He'd grin his little sly grin and say,
"Molly!" (his best friend) If we said, "Who's birthday is it?"
Carter would answer, "Daddy!" Always a teaser!

We hope you enjoy the pics. Sorry about the quality- we are only able
to use iPhone pics and there is no flash. Also, we haven't been able
to check the blog much (I am emailing the posts), so I haven't had a
chance to answer all your comments! But it is so nice to know a bunch
of you are thinking of us, so don't stop! I also haven't been able to
check my home email, but hopefully I can in the next couple of days.

Ciao!