Monday, December 8, 2008

My baby girl's second birthday!

I took off Addy's birthday day, so I could be home to celebrate with her. And we certainly did celebrate!

The day started off with me sick in bed but I quickly started to feel better because I HAD to make Addy's day special!

Addy picked her outfit out for the day, pink and brown stripped pants and a blue Sesame Street shirt (picking out your own clothes is a big 2 year old deal!)

We spent the morning playing and relaxing!



as you can tell we played hard!

Then, Mimi and Mallory came over with balloons and a McDonald's birthday lunch!








While the girls ate Mimi made the icing for the special birthday cake!



After lunch the girls played!





At nap time Addy went to sleep, Mimi and Mallory went home and I started on the birthday cake!



When Garth brought had down from her nap, he took her over to the cake. When he asked her what it was she said "Probably, Mickey!" Probably? I thought it looked JUST like Mickey ;)

We decorated for the party!



We did some more playing and our best pal Mickey called to wish Addy a Happy Birthday! Addy was confused and excited at the same time. She has watched Mickey on Garth's phone twice at the ER (two stories for another blog entry!) and thought we were giving her the phone to watch Mickey not talk to him. She still sometimes will ask if we are talking to Mickey!

Garth made delicious Chicken Parmesan for dinner! Addy loves her Daddy's cooking!



We sang Happy Birthday and Addy blew our her candle, all by herself!





We opened birthday presents!



Addy's second birthday was an awesome day. We had so much fun together and she really, really enjoyed every minute of the day!

Here's a walk down memory lane...

12.8.07



12.8.06




She is growing up too fast!

Breakfast!

I have been off all week and LOVING every minute of it!!!!

Some of my favorite moments have come at breakfast time. Addy has been eating cereal (just like mommy!) every morning. We haven't been sitting at the table but we have been standing at the counter. Addy on one side, me on the other. Addy eating Cheerios and drinking milk, me eating Just Bunches and drinking water. She has been soaking up every second of our breakfast time. Drinking when I drink. Picking up her bowl when I pick up my bowl. When just stand, eat and talk. I have loved the time I have had with her, just her and me, mommy and baby!











Oh, how I will miss my baby come Monday morning. I will be eating breakfast by myself on the way to work. It just isn't fair!

2009!

I can't believe that tomorrow is the beginning of 2009! I am so behind in posting 2008 and 2009 is about to begin!

Here is a picture of Addy on the last day of 2008!



A future Puma model!

Birthday Party!

Addy had her second birthday party at The Little Gym. We go to The Little Gym every Saturday and Addy loves it so we thought it would be a good place to a her party.

We were right!

There was...

lots of friends



Ryan, JoJo, Blake, Brie, Ally, Mallory, Laynie, RiRi, and Kiki.

lots of running and playing





the air trek





two year old tantrums



these tantrums happened because of the air trek. The fact that Addy wasn't allowed to just jump on the air trek like we do on Saturdays made her very mad!

lots of hanging







the parachute





singing





pizza and cake







I would say we had a very successful second birthday party!

All About Addy

Things I want to remeber about my BIG two year old...

* She says "I don't fink so." and "probably." all the time.
* She LOVES Mickey and everything that goes along with Mickey.
* She started watching movies. It's a Mickey movie, of course, but she is can't get enough of it.
* Garth has to read her a pop-up version of The Night Before Christmas every night.
* She tried to climb out of her crib about a month ago. She now has a "tent" on her bed.

I need to get back into documenting Addy's life. It is so awesome to go back and look at how she has changed. I think come April my time at the computer will be very limited, I need to get to work while I can!

2 Years Old!

It is hard for me to believe that I had my baby girl 2 years ago. That at 9:32 pm, 2 years ago, we were holding a 7 hour 20 minute old baby. She was so tiny.





Addy,

I love you more than you will ever know. You are my sunshine, best friend and the light of my life. I feel completely blessed to be your mommy. I cherish every second I have with you and soak up everything about you. You are mommas baby girl and will always be!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

Love,
Momma

2 Years Ago...

2 years ago...I was laying in a hospital bed, turning over and putting down a magazine.

2 years ago...Garth was trying to sleep on the waiting room floor of the hospital.

2 years ago...to almost this very minute my water broke.

2 years ago...the happiest day of our life was about to begin!