Lucy's 2nd Birthday!

We celebrated Lucy's 2nd birthday this past Thursday, just the four of us and then had a family party with all of Lucy's grandparents, aunts and uncles this past Saturday. Here are the pictures and highlights below.

Lucy's birthday morning dawned bright and early, as Lucy knew it was HER day.
She also told us in the weeks leading up to her birthday exactly what gifts she thought she was getting - a "play kitchen with a phone" (she accidentally saw where we had it hidden in the upstairs of our garage) and "Elmo stuff"! She ended up getting a vintage Little Tikes doll house in addition to a vintage play kitchen and Elmo stuff. Here she is below opening up a box of "Elmo stuff".Lucy requested Elmo cupcakes for her birthday, and helped me decorate them. She even added extra special flavoring to some of the cupcakes as you can see in the below picture. Apparently the guy behind the camera knew this was going on before I did, but didn't seem overly concerned by it. When I realized that Lucy was methodically licking the tops of each cupcake, I was less than kind to the birthday girl. The camera man then captured Lucy's reaction to the lecture in the picture below. To our family that ate the Elmo cupcakes this past Saturday - we served you the ones that Lucy didn't lick - I promise!Will made a growth chart out of oak that we measure each of our children's birth lengths and then their heights at each birthday. Lucy measured at 33 inches tall.Here Lucy is with her Mama and baby sister enjoying cupcakes and ice cream on her birthday.Here Lucy is again, this time on Saturday, enjoying cupcakes and ice cream next to her baby sister.

I love the look on Lucy's face after she blew out her two candles. We actually ended up re-lighting the candles and singing the birthday song about four more times after this picture was taken. I think this was Lucy's favorite part of her entire birthday party and she happily sang along to her own birthday song.And just when we thought we owned every kind of Elmo toy ever made, Uncle Joe went and got Lucy the original Tickle Me Elmo. You shouldn't have, Uncle Joe. But Lucy sure loves it!

Happy birthday Lucy! Mama and Dada-do are so proud of you! Words cannot express how much happiness you have brought into our lives and we are so glad you are our daughter.