Teslyn is 2!!!

My little lady is not a tiny baby any more, that's for sure.

We just love her to pieces and feel so lucky that she's ours. We are thoroughly enjoying her littleness, while it lasts.

She's a smart one. She woke up to her pile of presents and knew just what to do.

Can you tell she's very in to Dora? She's obsessed.

We kept her birthday pretty simple this year. We took her to eat dinner at Rainforest Cafe with another family we are friends with. It was the perfect restaurant to entertain little ones, with the fish, monkeys, elephants, lightening and thunder. Here she is looking around while almost the entire restaurant shouted "happy birthday!" to her. It was fun. The ladies at the next table over bestowed their plastic bead necklaces upon Teslyn before we left. (It's Vegas and they were partying.) It was sweet.

We went home to enjoy the Dora cake that I made to surprise Teslyn, which turned out really sloppy. I wanted to make a homemade strawberry frosting so Dora would have a pink skirt, but I couldn't get the frosting stiff enough so it wouldn't pipe on all nice like. But regardless, Teslyn was thrilled.

She blew out her candles like a pro and we let her dig right in. I had made cupcakes for the rest of us.

She is such a sweet little lady, she makes us laugh and smile everyday. I really don't know what I'd do without her. She amazes me. Next comes the potty training and binky weaning. Those were surprisingly easy with Owen, so I am praying it will be with Tes as well!