My birthday week!

Around here, birthdays can last for a week! That's the way we like it though! My second birthday was January 27, 2010. It was a Wednesday. I started the day out like I have been doing on a pretty routine basis these past couple of weeks...

On the potty.

The good news is that I have success first thing in the morning, which helps me to start the day off good! Momma and Daddy put together and wrapped my presents and put them on the dinning room table the night before, while I was in bed. They thought it would be more fun for me if they took all of the toys out of the boxes before they wrapped them, that way when I opened my gifts I would see a toy, and not a box. They were right!! When I got done on the potty I came running down the hall and hollering when I saw my new stroller sitting up on the table! Daddy thought it would be fun to not wrap it and let me see it up there with all of my other gifts! Problem was I wanted to get it down and play with it, not wait for Daddy to come home from work first!!! I screamed and threw fits all morning. After a thousand and one attempts I was able to pull the stroller down off of the table with out Momma telling me "No, no. We have to wait for daddy!". I wore her down and she gave up. I mean look at me! I'm hard to resist!

I loved that stroller and zoomed my baby Darla all over the house that morning! After breakfast Momma and I went to my playgroup. We took cupcakes with purple frosting and green sugar sprinkles with these cute little zoo animals on top! They were so yummy! I love going to playgroup, and it helped to keep my mind off of that table full of gifts I had to wait to open.

After playgroup Momma took me to eat at the Deli. Momma tried to play it off like she was doing it special for my birthday, but I'm only two and every one knows she was full of it! Then we went home and I took a nap and waited for daddy to come home from work.

After daddy got home we went to Chuck E. Cheese's for a little party. Momma invited one of the families from my playgroup who has 2 kids about my age. We had a great time! I squealed in delight, freaked out at seeing that creepy Chuck E. Cheese walking around, ate lots of food...fed my friend (forcefully), played games, rode rides, opened my present from my friends and ate more cupcakes!!

When we got home that night I FINALLY got to open my present from Momma and Daddy. One of the gifts I got was this dollhouse, which I love and play with all of the time. It even has a potty that makes flushing noises. I like that a lot and put the little people on the potty all the time and then run and tell Momma "Pee, pee!" and Momma laughs and then I laugh and run back and play some more.

I also got a baby doll play set that had a high chair and a bed, along with the stroller. Here I am putting my baby to "Nigh, nigh" just before I was ushered off to bed from my very long, exciting and tiring day!

The next day I spent the day at my Grandpa and Grandma's house. Later that evening my Auntie Maddy and my Great Grandma came over there to visit. Then my Uncle Ted and Uncle Vince where there too. When Momma and Daddy came later everyone celebrated me and my Uncle Ted's birthday. His birthday was the 31st. He's OLD. He turned 29 this year! ;) We ate pizza and had more cake!! Uncle Ted helped me blow out the candle. The candle in this picture is a tradition. Everyone gets to use the same candle over and over for years.

After dinner (and cake) Uncle Ted and I got to open our presents. My Great Grandma and my Uncle Ted bought me baby dolls. I love baby dolls. And now I have enough baby dolls to put one in each thing at home. I named the one with blond hair Daisy because she had flowers on her shirt. I got lots of lovely gifts and can't wait to wear some of my news clothes!

After gifts we sat around the table and played Bunco. (Great) Grandma let me sit on her lap for a while. In this picture she just threw the dice and didn't like what she ended up with. They let me throw the die a few times too. But then I got a little crazy and they made me get down. Sheesh, parent's just don't understand.

On Saturday Gramma and Uncle Ben and Uncle Casey came up to visit me and celebrate my birthday. Uncle Davy and Aunt Courtney tried to come but Uncle Davy had to work. Aunt Jenna was out of town on business too, so she was sad to miss my party also. We all had a great time visiting. We had lunch at the Deli (which is so obviously Momma's favorite quick place) and dinner at the pizza buffet, which I love. They even had balloons up which made the place feel festive! There was a lot of pool shooting and even Scattergories played, after I went to bed of course. It just wasn't as exciting with out Uncle Davy. ;) Daddy kicked Uncle Ben's butt playing pool, and he kicked every one's butt playing Scattergories. Gramma kept playing the letter "L" because she was very tired. Her score was not good. :D

This is Uncle Ben.

We waited until Sunday to open my gifts. And by then we were a little sick of cake, so we decided to put candles in a giant cookie that Momma made the night before. This was Daddy and Gramma's great idea and it worked wonderfully. Daddy had a hard time getting one of the candles to light. I was very interested in how he was doing that. My candles were very cool and had colored fire!!

Everyone sang and then I opened my gifts. One of the gifts I received was a piggy bank that was plastic so that I could carry it around and play with it. I love dollars and have recently take to change as well. I shook it before I opened it and told everyone there was money in it. Yup, I'm that smart. I had a great time putting all of my change and dollars in the bank. Uncle Ben gave me money for my birthday to put in my bank also! I quickly figured out how to take the stopper out, at which point I dumped out the money and started again.

I also was given wooden blocks. I like to stack and build, so this was a nice gift too.

Apparently Momma liked them also.

On Monday my gift from Uncle Jer arrived. He was not happy that it took so long to get here since he paid extra for it to be on time. I didn't mind. It just made my birthday continue on and on! Uncle Jer got me a shopping cart! I was so excited to get the box open!!

Who needs a stroller now??

I can put all three of my babies in here!!

That evening Daddy brought me home two dozen helium balloons! Momma wanted to cover my ceiling in balloons but never got the chance to, so Daddy brought some home for her.

I thought that was so cool! Kaida freaked out and spent most of the evening and part of the next day hiding in the basement (where she is usually scared to be!). I had a ball pulling the balloons down and letting them fly up and hit the ceiling! Kaida would bark and bark her head off. She probably thought the balloons were trying to get me! I had the time of my life and played with them for a long time. The next day they had fallen to the floor and I still had a grand time running through them and kicking them up!

Whew! My birthday was quite an adventure. I had such a great time and love all of my new toys. Momma's not sure where she's going to put them all, but I don't mind having them strewn about the house! It was so nice being able to spend time with my new friends, hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa's house and visiting with my family. I loved having Gramma and my uncles come up and stay at our home. It has been a fun and exciting week. Thank you to everyone who helped to make it such a special time.

I love you all.