Happy Birthday Birdie!

CeCe is 2!!!

Wow! Only 2 years? And not in a bad way at all......it seems like she's always been here, our family is so complete with her in it. She's such a good girl. She listens well, loves to help out, is a sweet friend, sleeps great, eats great and is so smart. She is talking in complete sentences but still refers to herself in the 3rd person, which is super cute to me! She knows all of her colors, can count to 12, can recognize some letters and can sing most of the ABC song. She is so loving to her baby dolls. She feeds, bathes, sings, rocks, gives bottles and puts them to bed multiple times a day. She still loves books and will 'read' to herself (points to the text and mumbles) if no one can sit down with her to read. She is a little pickier with her food, but is still overall a great eater. I love listening to Bryce and CeCe play and laugh together. It fills my heart with joy! They are still the best of friends.

We try to make birthdays pretty special and even though her party was last weekend today is a day to celebrate too! She got to pick her breakfast (cottage cheese and a banana) and she got to pick our morning outing.....THE BEACH! She's been asking to go a lot lately so I wasn't surprised at all when she said that. She found her favorite bathing suit and cover up and grabbed her new bag of sand toys before I had even told her that yes, we were going to the beach!

The weather was perfect when we got there (a storm came out of nowhere about an hour after we got there that sent us home early)

She had fun finding and throwing shells

Bryce got a new dinosaur book yesterday and has been a new dinosaur every 10 minutes

Had to do a little mix mixing!

We had a great time, the water was SO CLEAR and the waves were just right.

Last night we had dinner with some newish friends (the dad and daughter are in our playgroup but we hadn't all gotten together before). He is a wonderful cook and we enjoyed getting to know them better and watching the kids play. CeCe and Colette had a dance party right before we left that was so cute, I wish I had taken my camera for that moment! Pierre's birthday was earlier this week and they had leftover ice cream cake. Well, CeCe was in HEAVEN! She ate a huge piece and was talking about it as soon as she woke up today.

This afternoon we are going to a birthday party for my childhood best friend's little boy. Carrie and I were like CeCe and Kate, always together and if we weren't we were asking when we could see each other again! We sort of lost touch in middle/high school (she lived in Daphne, AL and we moved to Memphis) but never totally and now she lives in Pensacola!!! I can't wait to see her parents, they were like second parents to me when I was little.