Trimming the Tree

All part of the holiday experience.  I love it!  WOW...I keep exclaiming (it's one of my new things...I say, WOW to everything with a deep breath in as if it is the most amazing thing I have ever heard, seen, experienced etc. EVER). 

I love putting decorations on the tree.  I even got a special one to add this year.  Akira got a squirrel (cause he can be pretty squirrly) and I got a chipmunk.  Mommy often calls me her little chipmunk since I have a habit of storing food in my cheeks for long periods of time.

Happy Holidays....and it's just the start of the season....just wait till you see what's coming!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all had as good a dinner today as we did.  Yummy!!!

What being two means

So, it turns out that turning two isn't all pizza, rocking giraffes and cake.  There are responsibilities that come with becoming a big girl too. 

My mommy explained to me that morning after I turned two that you don't wear diapers when you are two.  Can you imagine?  Weird...

It turns out that I really really like this potty trained thing.  I LOVE going potty on the big girl potty chair, and especially going in the same bathroom as my big brother does.  I'm also really good at it.  Right from the beginning I understood what it meant to go potty in the potty chair.  When we are home right now mommy is having me not wear any bottoms in order to help me feel when I need to go potty and not be dependent on a diaper or pants to soak up any accidents.  But, there are so very few accidents.  I had basically no accidents on Monday, one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday.  Otherwise, I'm loving it!  I'm such a big girl and I'm so so proud of myself!  No more diapers for me...no siree.  I'm a big two year old now!

It's My Birthday...

....And, I'd cry if I wanted to, but there is just no reason.  I'm having SO MUCH FUN BEING TWO! 

This day is ALL ABOUT ME!  My brother doesn't like it, I'll tell you that.  But, you know what?  I love it!  Finally, it gets to be about me.  Plus, I don't know what he's complaining about?  I let him come to lunch with us, he got to make a reindeer at the Build-A-Bear, he got to play, he got to go to dinner with us?  Geeze...seems like a pretty decent deal to me.  But...enough about him, let's talk about me.

Today my Bada took us to lunch at Nordstrom!  I love it there.  Aki and I split a pizza....yummy!  Then...on to find my reindeer, Clarice.  I really love her.  I got to stuff her (though Mommy had to help cause I just wasn't sure how to use the machine), I got to give her a heart, and a bath and even make a birth certificate for her.  After all that fun, we went out to play on my favorite play structure.  And, with this wet weather it was packed with kids.  I made a friend and she made my brother very jealous.  They were even fighting over me for a while (both had my hands and didn't want to let me go...literally).  Then, we went out to dinner at Chipolte which is another favorite of mine.  After all that celebrating....we went home.  Bada had made me a super yummy birthday cake...I got to blow out my candles and the open up all my presents.  I got so many fun gifts....jackets and dresses and toys and even a giraffe rocking horse that is just my size! 

More than anything I did or got today though....my day was made perfect because I could feel how very much I am loved by my family.  I'm so glad I've found my forever family!