2nd Birthday Extravaganza!

We cannot believe Cadence is already two years old!  We had a lot of fun celebrating her birthday.  It kind of seemed like a month-long affair!  She's so funny now that she talks even better than before.  She's had a couple "terrible two" episodes, but nothing too bad.  She's also becoming more "snuggly" as we call it.  She'll come hug my legs if I'm washing dishes and she'll give us big hugs and kisses before bed.  A couple of weeks ago, while we were standing in line at the grocery store, she said to me, "Mommy, I wub you" and gave me a big hug!  It was so cute!  Ahh we love her.  She's so silly too!  I was on dog poo duty the other day and Cadence was following me.  She goes, "Ewww, that's gross!"  She has quite an imagination now, as well.  She is convinced that an alligator lives in Grandma & Poppa's backyard (we never told her that).  She also makes up stories about school.  We'll ask her how she got a scratch at school & she'll create some elaborate story about how it happened.  And if you ask her again what happened, the story will change! 

So I've got a lot pictures to share with everyone, so enjoy!

Cadence and Daddy making home-made pancakes

If you play with chalk, you better be prepared to do all the work!  She'll scribble a little, but makes you draw everything!

Practicing her "two" fingers!

Cinderella before the ball

Playing outside with her water table from Aunt Annie.  She didn't have a bathing suit yet!

  

We went to Hamilton over Memorial Day weekend to celebrate her birthday with Danny's family.  Even though it was really hot outside, we had a ton of fun!  Here's Cadence with Gracie, her partner in crime.

Lily, Cadence, & Gracie

Gracie got Cadence to eat her dinner!

Playing at the park with Nanny!

They spotted the moon

Mesmerized by the iPad

Bubble Guppies theme, her favorite show 

Cadence got a wagon for her birthday!

Fish cake!  The entire family helped!

Scarlet & Emilee

 

Birthday party in Columbus

Surprised to see her new play kitchen

 

Loves it!

Likes icing, not such a big fan of cake...

Helping us wash the cars.  She'll be a good helper getting the low, hard to reach areas.

 

All decked out in Disney

Mickey Oreo treats to celebrate her birthday at school

Danny is out of town tonight for work, so I thought I'd take some time to update the blog! I have a lot of pictures to add, so it's a pretty long post! Cadence, is of course, continuing to keep us entertained.

Here's Cadence wearing my Buckeye necklace before the Final Four Ohio State basketball game. We thought it would bring them good luck, but apparently not! The game was on too late for Cadence to watch, but throughout March Madness, Cadence has become interested in basketball! Making Daddy proud!

Cadence's future boyfriend, Jonah, recently turned 2! We were invited to his birthday party, which was themed, The Hungry Caterpillar. Cadence had a blast with all the kids and loved the caterpillar cupcakes!

She took everything out of her favor bucket and took inventory that night.

She thought it was funny to use her bracelets as glasses.

Since Danny and I are a part of our homeowner's association, I helped stuff Easter eggs and we took Cadence to the Easter egg hunt the following day. Our neighbor, Alexis, helped Cadence find a ton of eggs! She had a really good time and the weather was beautiful!

Lining up her candy! She's a pro...we've got a lot of candy in our house right now. It's like Halloween all over again!

Dying eggs! She was very protective of her eggs. Even when they were done, she did not want to take them out of the water!

Little Miss Attitude!

The Easter Bunny Came!

(Poor Scarlet, she's wearing the cone because she's allergic to EVERYTHING during Spring and scratches herself like crazy!)

She was such a good girl at church. Easter mass was packed!

She's a little obsessed with her Dora bubble blower from the Easter Bunny!

She insisted on Poppa blowing bubbles on her belly.

Play-doh time!

Someone got a little carried away with the stickers!

Maybe she's camping?