It's my burtday!!

Bernadette might be the sweetest sight to see today as we celebrate 2 years of her life.
When Mike walked into her room this morning, she was just sitting up in her crib announcing, "It's my burtday!!" I am thoroughly impressed with the fact that she always remembers how old she is turning when you ask her. Naomi still has to check with me sometimes when people ask her.

The highlight of the day was the cake that I managed to mash together. Every time I asked her what she wanted for her birthday for the past few weeks, the response was universally "my cake". So here it is, in the poorly-made flesh. It's a castle cake in case you were still sitting and wondering.

We started the day bright and early with the best donuts in the entire world, a South Bend treasure.

Then moved on to gift openning

She seriously squealed in some sort of delight as we handed her each present and then proceeded to say "Sank You!!!" unprompted after every. single. one. She also said "Is it possible?" while opening a few... no doubt she picked that up from dramatic elder sis.

Her favorite gift was a whole bunch of different animal sets given by Mike's parents, you can see some of her reaction here.

And we were surprised by some afternoon gift opening thanks to Grammy and Gramps Homol, including her very first pair of real live jeggings!! 

When she opened this she exclaimed, "OH... GREEN!"

We had a lovely birthday lunch of qusedillas and sour cream followed by the long awaited cake-eating:

Which did NOT disappoint even a little.

Her birth was not what we had planned out by any means and we've gone through some tough times with her entrance into toddler-hood, but I am now sitting and looking at her watching her favorite movie, wondering what the heck I ever did to deserve such an amazingly sweet, beautiful, unique little person as my own. I love love love you Beezie.