Anyway, we had a little backyard BBQ to celebrate the last party before she has an opinion. :) It was the end of June, but barely in the 70s and pretty gusty. It didn't stop the kids from splashing in the pool and then rolling around in the sandbox for a nice sugar coating.
Hadley hadn't seen (or paid attention to) the whole candle-blowing-out part of a party, so it was kinda fun to try to get her to do that, while protecting the candle from the wind. It was a team effort. (see the kids' faces behind me?) But so worth it for her "chit chit"! Yum!
Good buddies wrestling on the front lawn. It's a guy thing...
By the time of her actual birthday today, she was an old pro at the candle thing.
I think we asked her how old she was in this pic. She can definitely answer "two", but the two fingers up are way too complicated. :)
Someone enjoyed the gift unwrapping too.
As for her milestones, she is talking a lot, though she may still need a translator for newbies most of the time. She has started calling her friends by their names when she sees them. Other new words: birthday, "goss" - gross, door, fall, head, tub, bike, Biscuit, diaper, walk, ride, moose, "dobby" - strawberry, "I do it", and many others. And if she's crying, and I ask her what happened, it's often "bhoslidlfkaskfn Owen sldfoidfhwoeeabp" between sobs. (Here she has pulled her arms out of her shirt and shimmied it down like a skirt with her bro's backwards hat to complete the look.)
Her personality is showing itself more and more, and she is definitely my climber. One night while making dinner, I had a little head pop up over the counter on the other side. She had pushed her chair over and climbed on up to see what was going on. Such a stinker! We are also firmly in the terrible twos for stubbornness, independence, and testing limits.
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