Happy Birthday to Abby!

It's been two years since we first met our little Abigail Grace. So today was all about celebrating that occasion, and also celebrating the "big girl" she's become. Adam stayed home today, so we had a nice day as a family. We started with a trip to the park this morning. We had gotten Abby a pair of sunglasses for her birthday, so she got to open one present early to wear when went out.





The trip didn't last too long, though, because there were a lot of other kids at the park, and Abby's never a big fan of having to share the park. But we had a nice walk (or at least Nora and I did - Adam got kind of tired from having to carry Abby the whole way) and we had a little snack at the park and played a little bit.

While Abby was taking her nap, I iced her cake. Given that Elmo is her favorite everything these days, I decided to make an Elmo cake.



A few days ago I asked Abby what she would choose for dinner if she could choose anything in the world. Without a second thought she told me "Peanut butter sandwich!" So we had peanut butter sandwiches, fruit salad, and breadsticks with cheese dip for her special birthday dinner. She was pretty excited, and for the first time in several weeks we didn't have any negotiations about how many bites of this or that she had to eat of her dinner. And of course, we finished up with some Elmo cake!



She definitely enjoyed the cake. I talked Adam out of putting the candles in Elmo's eyes - Elmo definitely doesn't have flame vision - so he settled for making Elmo look like a fire-breathing dragon/monster.











After dinner we moved on to presents. Nora had fun watching Abby open her birthday presents.





Then we went outside to play with her new ball a little bit before bed. She had a lot of fun bouncing it and kicking it and showing it to the flowers. I think she's really enjoying being two!