She's Two!

We had a whirlwind week this past week, traveling all the way to Birmingham, AL to visit with friends for the first part of Spring Break.

Throw in two birthdays, two birthday parties to plan for, and Easter celebrations, and you've got one neglected blog for the month of March!

Here's one photo of the birthday girl for now.  We now have an unshakable family tradition of getting donuts from Carlson's for breakfast on a birthday.  Then the birthday person gets to open gifts from our family and blow out candles at the breakfast table.

Avery doesn't realize what's going on one way or another, so during breakfast time I was actually still asleep recovering from returning home from Alabama at 4am that same morning.  This photo was taken later in the morning when we stuck candles into a chunk of donut that was left over.  And she didn't get her gifts until bed time.  And we "shopped" for said gifts in our attic, where we store toys and clothes that are out of rotation.

Yes, we re-gifted.

She loved the baby doll bath tub and fancy Moroccan slippers (that Leah outgrew).

Happy Birthday to the sweetest, most affectionate, goofiest, funniest two year old Avery!