Happy Birthday Marlow!

Oh how sweet it is to be 2!!  Well not really.... it's as if a switch was flipped and she knew that turning two meant turning terrible. :)  Yesterday we celebrated with family and friends over a Pancakes, Parfaits and Panda Breakfast Party.  It was a challenge at 35.5 weeks pregnant...at least in the prep work, but oh it was so fun to share it with people we love. 

This morning we sang Happy Birthday and I gazed at my big little girl feeding herself breakfast, requesting juice please and asking me to come sit with her.  I sat and watched her, thinking to myself...."Wow, how did we get here?  How did we get this lucky?  How is she so big?!?!  I recalled those first moments of her resting on my chest right out of the womb and her soft cries... our nursing sessions... our first tooth... our first haircut.... our first boo boo.... our first words...  our first steps.  I began to feel emotional and a teeny tear about to creep out and then she looked up and me and said, "What?"... as in, "what are you looking at?"  All of a sudden I was fast forwarding to her 15 year old self and I just couldn't stop laughing at how much she is her own person.

We had a regular Sunday morning of worship and after nap she enjoyed dinner with family at Rainforest Cafe and a stroll downtown for ice cream.  I think it was a hit!

Pictures to come!