Happy Birthday Carley! 2 years old!

Today is Carley's second birthday!
I wanted to wake her up singing Happy Birthday at the top of my lungs, but we currently have a house full of guests, so I refrained...I whispered it into her ear instead!

I have to say, in Carley's defense...miss CeCe is coming around less and less often.
This last year has had moments of struggle, strife & plenty of conflict but we got through it
and have come out much happier on the other side!

She's such a girlie girl. She loves to copy whatever Luke & Emry are doing.
Her favorite things to do are:

• play dress up
• get her hair done
• play Polly pockets
• get lip gloss put on
• color
• watch Cinderella
• play with her Tinkerbell doll
  
• and she wants to wear a dress everyday

Carley is a very good helper to me around the house. She puts things away when I ask her and she likes to help unload the dishwasher. I am really looking forward to being able to spend one on one time with her once school starts for the big kids.

She couldn't hold up 2 fingers on the same hand, so we taught her to say 2 this way. We had a potato bar with all the trimmings b/c that is her favorite dinner.

It was a Tinkerbell party.

Natalia helped me make these yummy cupcakes. She'd never done anything like it before...so I had to break her in. She was lucky too b/c I didn't even go overboard...this party was so tame.

We had a mini celebration for Addi & Emry since their birthdays are also coming up and they wouldn't be able to be together. They exchanged gifts and each had a special cupcake.

The suckers were a huge hit!