Happy Birthday Lilian!

It's hard to believe that Lily turned 2 today! The last two years have absolutely flown by. I was kind of emotional about her second birthday - she's just getting big way too fast! sniff sniff. It's certainly a bonus that Lily is an October baby b/c of my enormous love for fall activities. Every birthday I can use that as an excuse to go to a fall festival or orchard. So this morning we went to Tuttles Orchard for birthday activity #1. It was a lot of fun - they had a whole area for kids to play - mazes, horses, sand boxes, corn stalk tunnels, you name it. We walked the apple orchard and picked apples, then went out in the pumpkin patch and picked our pumpkin. We came home with pumpkins, apples, and apple cider. The weather was fabulous today - mid sixties and sunny. Much more "fall appropriate" than Monday was. After nap time, the birthday party began. We just had a little family only party that really didn't seem all that little - with both sets of grandparents, great grandma, three aunts and baby cousin Michael, we had quite a crowd! Jessica came too b/c she's family as well. The true extremes of Lily's personality really came out today - she's part farm girl/part princess :) Abbie gave her dress up clothes which consisted of high heels, jewels, a tiara, sun glasses, and a wand. Lily put them on and paraded around for the rest of her party like that. It was pretty funny! We were really happy that everyone was able to make it (especially Melissa and Michael b/c we miss them!). Two year old birthday parties are interesting. They get overwhelmed so easily, but are also so excited by everything. Lily seemed like her little head was going to expload when she opened each gift! Needless to say, we were exhausted when it was over. And we get to do it all over again in 18 months :)