king for a day

although we celebrated will's birthday on saturday with family, yesterday was his actual birthday. and lucky for us, since peter is a government employee, he had the day off for columbus day. it couldn't have worked out better. so we took the whole day and made our new little 2 year old a king for a day. we did all of his favorite things . . .

we started out by going downtown to ride trax. (will is just as obsessed with trains right now as he is with cars, trucks, and tractors.) we waited for the train to arrive . . . and by waiting i mean, we had to keep chasing will down from running away/onto the tracks. that kid is always on the move!

will opened the doors and climbed on-board all by himself. and then we had a fun ride. every time the train would make a stop, will would say, "all done." and then, "go" as soon as he was ready for it to start moving again.

we rode trax from gateway to temple square. will loves open spaces to run around and temple square has a lot for him to explore. he was being pretty funny. he would run or gallop away from us and wait for peter to chase him down.

after our trax rides and temple square, we took william to the discovery museum at gateway. will loves that place. here are a couple of pictures of daddy playing with will: dressing up as birds, and flying the helicopter.

we don't have any pictures of the evening, but after will's (and mom's) afternoon nap, we took him down to the dollar movie theater in sugar house to see Cars 2. peter and i were completely amazed at how well will did. he loved it and sat through the entire thing! this is a really big deal. a first in the frandsen household. we took will to see that movie a couple of months ago and he was a little maniac running through the theater the whole time. i guess he really is growing up . . .