We had a quiet birthday celebration for Annabel. Still lots of flags and balloons and the foods she likes, but we celebrated with just the four of us (Michiel, Lisa, Alexander, and Annabel). 
Here she is, sharing ice cream with her brother:
And here's her birthday muffin...banana chocolate chip with fresh whipped cream and m&m's on top: 
Reading her new book, Frog in Love: 
In honor of her second birthday (well, actually, it's her third...if you count the day she was born, but that gets confusing) I thought I'd list some of her recent doings and sayings:
"Ta-da! I look nice pretty"
If you ask her to hop she'll sort of gallop around the house yelling, "Hop, hop, hop!"
She's fond of saying, "I want to do dat too-also," or "You do it too-also."
She calls cucumbers "Q-manders."
She loves the Frog and Toad books and always asks for the same stories: "Cookies" and "Spring." Other favorite books are the Gerald and Piggy series. She knows them so well she can sit in a chair and "read" the stories to herself. When she gets angry, she'll sometimes quote Piggy: "I am mad and sad!"
Favorite songs at bedtime(in her own words): Row row row, my only Sunshine, sing song sickpens peck of her nose. She also likes to sing, "happy birthday to me" and "head shoulders knees toes." The other day she padded down the hallway, cocked her head to the side and said, "I love you in de afternoon."
We have stopped nursing (Yay!)
As of today, she weighs 30.5 lbs. and is 35 inches tall.
Annabel likes her routines. Each morning after we drop Alexander off at school, she says, "Xander's going to sko-el."
"Yes," I say, "Xander's going to school."
"I go to sko-el too!"
"Yes, in a couple of years you'll go to school too."
Normally, the conversation stops there, but one morning a couple of weeks ago, she went on: "I not go to sko-el in a cuppa years. I go when I 39 and a half."
Later I discovered that my parents had weighed her a week before at 29 and a half lbs, so that's probably where she got the number.
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