Heaven's Little Blessings: March 2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Alexa's 2nd Birthday!

I can't believe my little baby is 2 years old! It kinda makes me sad that she is growing up but at the same time she is getting more fun every day. I think she kinda got the concept of it being her birthday. She would walk around singing "Happy Birthday" (sort of:) and she can say "I two". And boy did she love opening her presents. It's amazing how quick kids learn that the day is all about them.

A few updates about how Alexa is doing. She had her two-year checkup and as I expected, she is tiny. She is actually in around the 50% for her height at 34 inches and only the 10% for her weight at 23.6lbs. She still absolutely hates the doctor though. For some reason she still screams from the time they call us back until we get back into the car. She is starting to able to sing some songs (or parts of them:) and is saying two and three word sentences. And the biggest news of all...we are officially Potty Trained!!!! Yay! I started about 3 weeks before her birthday and after 7 accidents on the first day I almost gave up. Then by the second day (and 5 more accidents) I was ready to cry but I knew if I gave up I would have to repeat those 2 horrible days all over again so we kept at it. After her nap on day three something just kind of clicked and she started going every time I put her on the potty. We still have our occasional accidents but we did go for 9 days straight with no accidents...and then we had 3 in two days:( But over all I would say she is doing great. Anyway, on to the pictures...

We did a tea party theme since Alexa loves playing with her tea cups. My cakes didn't turn out quite like I had invisioned in my head...

Alexa with Aunt Jo Jo, Kate and Graham. Alexa is crazy about Jo Jo!

Alexa with her little buddies who came to help her celebrate turning two.

Trying to figure out how to blow out the candles.

Alexa was all about eating some cake. As usual, she was the last one at the table and then (even though there was still a lot of cake on her own plate) she went around to all the other kids plates and ate some of their cake since there were gone. What is it that makes every one else's stuff look so much better than your own even though it's the same thing?

Alexa went crazy over her Veggie Tales coloring book. That is her favorite "toon" right now and she started jumping up and down and yelling "Tale Tales", which is what she calls it.

The girls were patiently waiting for Alexa to hurry up and open her next present.

I don't know what it is about turning two but suddenly Alexa looks so much older:(

Beautiful girl!

Our first semi-warm (or at least not freezing) day and of course we had to go outside and take pictures:) Alexa loved touching the snow with her bare hands. And yes, finally the snow is gone!

Christmas 2009

We had such a fun Christmas this year! Alexa really got into it and had so much fun opening her presents. When she walked down the stairs her face lit up and she said wow when she saw her table and her stroller. After our little family Christmas we flew to Arkansas the next day to be with Nic's family. Sadly, Nic's parents didn't get to be with us because Nic's grandpa passed away a few days before Christmas. It was so good to spend some time in Arkansas though with Nic's brother and sister-in-law and Alexa's cousins Ryan and Emma. Then we went to Kentucky to spend a few days with my family. Alexa really enjoyed being around her 10 cousins.

We had so much fun but it's been such a cold, long winter that I can truly say I'm glad the winter season is finally over and we are ready for spring!