Zander is two! (and our adult life is officially over!)

Yesterday was Zander's second birthday and to celebrate, I made Zander some excellent double chocolate pancakes for breakfast. Zander got to play his computer games and for lunch we had his favourite! When Stephen got home from work, we headed out to have dinner. We decided to go to Montana's. Big mistake. There was no hostess at the door when we first got there so we had to wait five minutes for someone to realize that there were people at the door. We finally got seated and at the table next to us, there was a birthday. Of course, they come over and sing to the little girl and cheer which is half the fun, but Zander freaked right out! Screaming and crying, terrified! I think we must have sat at the table for a good ten minutes and no one came to get us drinks or anything. The waitress stopped by and said that she would be right over and so we decided to wait a bit more... Zander would not settle down so we started packing up to leave, a little ticked as our waitress didn not come right back, she checked on two other tables first and then had the nerve to give us attitude because we were leaving. So we tried another restaurant. Again there was a birthday and again Zander freaked out. This time he settled pretty quickly and our server was great. He ordered Zander's food right away and made sure he had a drink pronto. Zander's food came and he ate some of it, unfortunately, before our appetizer even arrived, he started acting up and so we were forced to pack up and leave, although this time, we switched our order to take out so that we'd at least have dinner at home. They were also nice enough to give us two balloons for Zander which he loved, especially the yellow one. I suspect that yellow is his favourite colour... other than purple, it's the only colour he will say! While Stephen and I ate and Zander chased the balloons around, we talked about how we used to be able to eat dinner anywhere, in silence if we wished! Stephen asked me when our lives where going to get back to normal, to which I responded, "this is our new normal!" Tomorrow should be a fun day, we are doing another birthday party with Stephen's party... I'll keep you posted!