Lilly's Birthday

Happy Birthday Lilly!! I can’t believe that I have a 2 year old. The time goes by so fast. It makes me a little sad. We were going to have a big party for her this year since we didn’t have one last year but after I started looking into the planning and the expense it lost its appeal. We decided to wait until she is a little older.

This year we celebrated just as a family. We had Fazoli’s for dinner because Lilly loves noodles, opened her presents, and eat some cake. We celebrated on Friday last week because Tyson is in China. (For anyone that doesn’t know Tyson is in China from November 10^th-21^st, then in India from November 24^th – December 1^st, and then Florida December 4^th – 8^th. Lilly and I sure miss him.) We had a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme since that is Lilly’s favorite.

 

Tyson was a good sport about wearing the Mickey Mouse ears. That is what good daddys do.

I bought way too many presents. I probably should have saved some for Christmas. She got SPOILED. Lilly’s favorite part of her birthday was blowing out the candle (after I showed her it wasn’t scary) and the balloons.

 

Dear Lilly,

Happy 2^nd Birthday! I can’t believe you are 2 already. The last 2 years have been so much fun. You are the best thing to ever happen to us. You are such a sweet little girl and always give good hugs and kisses to everyone. You are pretty good at listening to mommy and daddy and doing what we ask you to. You are also a great little worker and love to help mommy around the house. 

You are always a good sport at all the things mommy takes you to including Mommy and Me, swimming, toddler music classes, play dates, and Tales for Tots at the library. You always have fun and still love parachute time. Hopefully by next year you’ll be a little better with sharing. You are also good when mommy makes you go to grown up activities with her. You’re her best buddy. 

You got to start nursery at church when you were 18 months old. You did a good job adjusting to nursery. You only cried for a couple of minutes for the first couple of weeks.  You love your teachers and nursery friends. Your teachers call you mellow and laid back and say that you usually go with the flow of things. 

I can’t believe how much you’re talking and all the new things you are learning. I think you learn a new word or two each day.  You love to count but you always start at two and only go to three “two three, two three, two three”. Now you just need to work on putting 2 words together.

You carry books around the house and want me to read them over and over. Some other favorite toys of yours are purses, dolls, your stroller, xylophone, and anything with a lot of small parts like your Mickey Mouse figurines. You are still good at sleeping but don’t like to eat everything I give you.

You are defiantly the oldest girl. You like to boss people around and like things exactly your way. You go around cleaning up, lining things up and closing doors. You like things just right. You are also very cute. Wherever we go we consistently have people telling us how cute you are.

Thank you for being a good traveler and going with us to North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Utah, and all of our other weekend trips. You never cry or complain when we are out exploring. Thank you for being such and good and easy little girl.

We love you so much.

Love,
Mommy