Happy Birthday Nyah!

Nyah Pei Pei turned two on March 13th and we have spent three days celebrating her first birthday with our family.

The pictures above were from her actual birthday, when we had a "just-us" celebration after dinner with a small cake and ice-cream. She is really starting to try to repeat a lot of things so she joined us in singing Happy Birthday which was pretty amusing since she doesn't pronounce words ~ she really just makes noise to the right syllable count. And we worked all day at getting her to say "two" so now if you ask her how old she is, she holds up anywhere between 0 (if she is being her stubborn self) and 4 fingers and makes some one-syllable in length noise for "two." We gave her a big red ball which was immediately taken by her brothers for some game down the basement and we let her open a present from her Aunt Stacey, Uncle Ron, and her cousins Allie, Robbie, and Scottie... a bath toy she will love because that is one of her favorite places to be!

Saturday we didn't really celebrate... the girls and I went to the Children's Museum for a few hours and since she wore a birthday shirt, she received some well wishes. I didn't have the camera with me since our original plan was to just go shoe shopping, and well, while my Tr*c-f*ne can take pictures, they aren't really that impressive.

Today we had the big party... which we kept small because even small to her is overwhelming for the first hour or so and, well, she is still little and we can get away with it.

All the grandparents all came over and Doug's sister and family. This time I think she led the Happy Birthday song and she was not as appreciative of Evan's help when it came to opening presents. She loves them all... the new wagon; her new camera, phone and purse; and the pop-up tent and tunnel that thankfully, the older kids have not destroyed yet though they were making an effort at it.

I am a bit worried she will wake up tomorrow and think she is having more birthday time. Then again, she has been fussing since she went to bed three hours ago (I'm thinking belly aches) so maybe she has had enough cake and potato chips for a while.

Happy Birthday Nyah!!!