Who's two? Lily, that's who! Part 1

Last year, it took me until April to get around to blogging Lily's birthday. This year I'm trying to be a lot more prompt! So without further ado, here we go.

Just to start things off right, mama stuck around a bit later than usual before going to work so she could wish her baby happy birthday. Let's see how that went:

Yep, Lily still says "cheese" to the video camera. Ah, well! But moving on: one of her big presents (from Po Po and Gung Gung) was her very own slide. Long time readers of the blog know that Lily is usually quite fond of slides, so mama and dada stealthily put it together the night before and put it in their bedroom (temporarily, Pinky insists!) so Lily could play without consideration for daylight or weather. We were very excited for what we expected to be a very enthusiastic response from our two-year-old girl. Shall we take a look?

Hmf. Not exactly the reception we were hoping for! Well, she WAS still sleepy, and she certainly does love her Wonder Pets...tell you what, Lily, we'll watch some Pets, run you off to daycare and try again later.

When we all got home later that evening, we had a nice surprise: Lily's babysitter Katharine had gotten her some very sweet presents! There were these very cute kiddie dishes , including these cool cups that have water and little floaty decorations between the outer and inner layer. This inspired mama, dada and Lily to a round of birthday toasts:

Did you catch Lily saying "birthday" at the end? They must have worked on that with her at daycare because she was saying it over and over. So cute! That was the only one I caught on video, unfortunately.

Drink up, Lily!

Since Lily's actual birthday fell on Friday, we didn't have her official party until the next day, but we did invite Aunty Chelle, Uncle Charlie, BFF Molly and boyfriend Andy-roo over for dinner and play. Molly and Andy-roo helped Lily get more acclimated to her new slide (more on that later), we had a very nice meal together, and of course, we had to sing Happy Birthday to Lily and give her a "cake" (OK, cupcake for now) and candles to blow out. Hm, I wonder how she'll feel about candles?

Oh, well...maybe we'll have better luck at her party! We'll continue that in the next post.