I have no idea how this happened, but our Gwennie Pooh turned 2 today! These past 2 years have been the fastest of my life. I can't believe my baby is already 2. She is a joy to our family and makes us smile and laugh several times a day. She also knows how to drive us crazy and panic when we find her on top of the counter or in the middle of some other dangerous adventure. We love her happy personality and her independent spirit! She gets so quiet and shy around other people. I wish everyone could spend a day with this cute girl and get to know her like we know her!
Some fun Gwen facts:
Her favorite words are "No" and "Mine". She loves to read. Her favorite book is currently, "No No, Yes Yes". She also loves to watch TV. He favorite movie is currently, "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas". We watch it at least twice a day. She loves to play outside, but hates the snow. She loves animals, especially dogs and cats. She is the bully of Nursery. She is a great eater! She has warmed up to most of her uncles. She loves to watch basketball games and football games with Adam and she loves to torment Tessa. She has been binky free for over a month and moved into a big girl bed about 3 weeks ago. She hates getting her hair done. She loves shoes. She loves bubbles. She loves babies. She loves to climb on anything and everything. She loves music! Right now her favorite song is "In Summer" from Frozen. She knows all the words. I could go on and on, but those are some fun things about our girl.
Her birthday started out with her insisting that she dress herself.
That didn't work out so well.
After our dressing battle, I had enough time to make her favorite breakfast of bacon and eggs before we took the older kids to school. Gwennie loves bacon!
Gwen and Mommy spent the day together running lots of errands. If you know Gwen, you know shopping with her is less than fun. She refuses to sit in a cart and she likes to "help" by pulling things off of the shelves. But, I love looking back and seeing that cute face once I have her strapped down in the car.
We took a lunch break from shopping and came home to make her favorite lunch of chicken nuggets and pirate booty with lots of ketchup.
We picked the kids up from school and headed out for more errands. The birthday girl got a quick nap in the car. We went to the grocery store and got a birthday ice cream cone. She wore more than she ate. Note all the wardrobe changes throughout the day....
We had a pizza party for our dinner/birthday party. They kids ate their pizza and watched a movie. Gwen loves pizza and this is one of our favorite Friday night activities-especially when Daddy is gone at school for the weekend.
She refused to wear clothes all evening. I have learned there is no reasoning with a two year old, so naked she stayed.
We bought a square of a birthday cake at the store for a birthday treat tonight. She was so happy to have us sing to her and blow out her candles. We have come a long way since last year! She even did the traditional Nielson "cha cha cha" during the birthday song.
