No Longer a Baby Anymore....

Daisy turned two yesterday. It's official, we know longer have a baby in our house. She is getting to be a big, big girl.

Tripp left town well before the sun came up to catch a plane for Chicago so it was up to the rest of us to give Daisy a special day. I tried to take the girls to their favorite place in Vegas, The Leid Discovery Museum, but alas, the nice security guard informed us upon arrival that it remains closed on Mondays. Lots of tears ensued (Abbie was a wreck..."Daisy's birthday has gone to the alligators!") but luckily we are annual pass holders at a couple of Las Vegas museums so we hit the road for the Springs Preserve. The weather was way too cold to enjoy the outside activities but we all had fun inside.
Abbie even talked me into lunch at the Cafe....

That evening, we watched Daisy open the rest of her presents then I gave her a choice between noodles for dinner or Cafe Rio. She was undecided so Kyle decided for her. Off to Cafe Rio we went in the pouring Green Valley rain.

Kyle was an enormous helper at the restaurant and after dinner he and Abbie talked me into cones next door. Each kid enjoyed their vanilla custard cone. Daisy seemed to have a nice day, even if it did "Go to the alligators" as Abbie likes to continue to tell me.

A few things about Daisy at 2 years old:

She finally is above average in both height and weight. She was so tiny for so long both her pediatrician and I breathed a huge sigh of relief today at her annual check-up when she was finally out of the woods. She sleeps well in her big girl bed but can't wait to be big enough to sleep on the top bunk. She is either an enormous ham as shown in the photo at top or a complete and total crying grouch that insists on being held...there is no middle ground for her (it's more grouchy than anything which tires me out!)

She loves: watching TV in her mommy's bed, playing baby dolls, eating, her blankies and stuffed animals, her passie, her daddy and brother, Ruby & Lulu, Nate (for every bit he annoys Abbie, Daisy absolutely adores him), her pillow, Mickey Mouse.

She dislikes: being put down, nursery, being bullied by her sister, being little.