Halle Kate is TWO!!!

Happy Birthday Halle Kate! We cannot believe you are two!!!!

Here's our girl starting the morning with pancakes with sprinkles.

The girls wanted to see HK's cake - I turned my back for a second not being smart enough to think that they would dig in. See the pancake still on the plate? Icing is always better than pancakes.

I did quickly take it away and try to turn their attention back to the pancakes.

HK's favorite thing in the world, Daddy Daddy's Ipad. She meets him at the door at night and screaming "Want to play Daddy's Ipad!!!!".

There are only two places we are brave enough to take our girls to eat - Chickfila and Cici's Pizza. HK picked Cici's for birthday. She ate 3 noodles, 1 bite of pizza and was ready to drive a race car.

We let HK go to Walmart and pick out anything she wanted for her birthday. Sometimes it is hard to be a parent. We went down the princess row, the My Little Pony row, the baby doll row and she didn't want anything. Then we followed her to the boy toys section where she picked out Tow Mater from the movie Cars, a Cars book and an alligator. Jared and I both had to keep stopping ourselves from pointing her in different directions and let her choose what she wanted.

Getting ready to sing to our sweet girl. Notice that the half eaten/smashed cupcakes from breakfast had been replaced!

Matney jumped on the table to blow out the candle.

Yummy cupcakes! HK licked and licked and licked that icing until it was gone. She wouldn't let us take the paper off and wasn't interested in the cake.

Halle Kate brings so much joy and laughter (and gray hair) to our family. If she is awake she is FULL of life. At two HK is speaking in 6-8 word sentences, can sing her ABCs, loves to sing (Itsy Bitsy Spider and Old McDonald are some of her favorites) and can count to 14 by herself. She loves cream cheese on a spoon, strawberries, gold fish and milk but getting her to eat is still a big struggle. Her favorite shows are Yo Gabba Gabba or Bubble Guppies, she loves her bounce house and she has to read Christmas Puppy before bed. When HK has eaten she is normally in a great mood and always trying to do something to make us laugh. When she's hungry or tired she can be more than cranky! There are so many times a day HK's little pigtailed self goes flying by and someone says she "is the cutest little girl"....and she is! Happy Birthday Halle Kate. Your Mama and Daddy are so incredibly crazy about you!

It is so very very hard to believe that our baby girl is two years old. And I won't lie and say that I haven't been a little emotional about the whole thing! Having her turn two has been hard for me because for 3 years there has always been a baby in this house. A two and three year old means no more babies. Sniff. If someone would like to be pregnant for me then let me know and I'll take another baby anytime you want to give me one!

I would have blogged lots last week but Jared was out of town and just flew back in Sunday morning for HK's bday. We realized after he left that he'd taken my camera cord with him and I couldn't download pictures. There are lots to see from the past few weeks so get ready soon.