Happy Birthday Rylin!! I honestly can't believe that another year has gone by and that Rylin is now two. It has been so fun to have her in our lives and we are the luckiest parents alive...sorry everyone else but I think you got jipped. She has been so funny lately because she is talking like crazy and we wanted to see if she really understood the concept of having a birthday, so two weeks before we told her that she was going to have a birthday in two weeks and that everyone was going to come over to eat cake and ice cream and that she was going to get some presents. So every time you asked her when her birthday was OR how old she was she would respond two weeks. We love it. She also would tell everyone she was going to get surprises in two weeks. She is doing a awesome job at holding those two little fingers up to show how old she is and for anyone who has had a kid they know that two is a hard number to do that with. A few of my favorite things that she has been doing is singing songs. She knows the whole "temple" song along with most of "Child of God" song. My favorite phrase she says is "mom it's so heavy". The way she says "so" makes me laugh EVERY time. She is also the best big sister to Kennedy. She gives her kisses about 50 times a day since that is the only thing she is allowed to do to Kennedy. She also helps me feed her bottles and gets me burp cloths and diapers anytime I ask. Lately she has been loving to hide everything. I open my pan cupboard or washing machine and find sippy cups, blankets, and toys so it is a daily scavenger hunt to find things that she wants that she has hidden. Let's see other things she does is takes all our shoes off the shelves and ends up putting daddy's shoes on and walking around the house. We have a no shoe policy in our house but for this I make exceptions because she is too cute to tell her to take them off.
As for her birthday party we were just going to do cake and ice cream but her grandmas, grandpas, aunts, and uncles were too generous and gave her all sorts of gifts. She loved them all and we wanted to say thanks to drew and Owen for helping her open her gifts. Seriously thanks to everyone who came we love you all. She decided she wanted a mermaid cake so just threw one together...ha ha ha. Not really I spent hours with the help of my sister Michelle getting to look like little mermaid, but I think it turned out nice. Once it was done my father-in-law noticed that it looked like her chubby Ariel doll and as you can see he was right.
We ate delicious cake and ice cream while we talked and played pool. We then took the kids out to drive Rylin's birthday present which was a revamped jeep that her dad pimped up with new wheels and cool stickers. She doesn't like to drive it yet but loves sitting in the passengers seat while Drew flies around. It was a lot of fun. Too bad we had crappy weather or they would have been out there all night. Well happy birthday princess! We love you!!
