I'm 2 years old!

Happy 2nd Birthday Kaitlynn Nicole!
This is a typical picture for us these days. Either Kaitlynn looks cute and we don't or we do and she's not looking!
Yes there was snow...LOTS of snow!! Last year we played outside after the party. Maybe next year!
Grandma and Papa Hardie gave Kaitlynn my old table and chairs which they repainted. She's going to have just as much fun as Ryan and I had with it over the years!She LOVES her new table!
Yummy food and decorations
She had to take off every single little piece of paper and tape from her presents!
She had lots of helpers!
The cute springy cake that should have had snowflakes instead!
Notice how neatly she cleaned all of the frosting off...she's definitely my girl!!

Here are some of the party guests!
Emma and JoanneAlex and NicholasSaying good-bye to the guests!

Now that Kaitlynn has started talking in more phrases and sentences it's so much fun to see what she's learning and how much she picks up from watching people do things! We've even started to have some entertaining conversations. With her little personality I'm sure these are the first of MANY to come!

Yesterday were out running errands and she said "Mommy pray" I asked her if she wanted to say a prayer and she said "yeah". So, I turned off the music and as she had her hands folded over her eyes I said a prayer. Then she said "Amen...I pray Mommy" I said "Do you want to pray, too?" She said "Yeah" and folded her hands over her eyes again and sat there for a couple of seconds. It was such a precious moment!

She is also obsessed with birds right now and we see LOTS of them on the way to her babysitters house every morning. The entire 12 min. drive I here "Where birds go mama? Where birds go mama? Bye bye birds. Where birds go mama?..." You get the idea! I try to change up my responses to where the birds are going to make it a little more entertaining for me!!

Yesterday I was taking pictures of the diaper cakes I had made (see pictures below) and Kaitlynn was doing puzzles in her high chair. She kept saying "Me cheese, mommy" So I took her picture, too!

Here are some pictures of her time with Daddy the last couple of weeks. He still keeps her one day a week when his schedule allows it. Apparently there is lots of cute snuggly sleeping time...and moments that look like this!
Here they are sleeping a couple of night ago. I thought it was hilarious that both of their mouths are open the same amount!
When we got the call that Annie and Jake were on the way to the hospital to deliver baby Abby, we put Kaitlynn's "I'm gonna be a big cousin" shirt. We had made it last summer and Annie held her up to announce to the family that she was pregnant. Last summer this shirt hung down past Kaitlynn's knees!
Look how big she's getting!
I kept bending down to take the picture and every time I would do that she would bend down, too! She of course thought it was hilarious!

Here's our new kitchen table...we LOVE it! We also discovered yesterday that crayons do wash off of it. Always good information to know!

These are a few diaper cakes I made this weekend for shower gifts and one that a staff member at my school "ordered" from me. I think they turned out pretty good!