I just cannot believe my little girl is 2 years old. Two years ago, I was sitting here typing and telling the world of her arrival and now she is 2 years old. Yes, they do grow up to fast. We had an absolutely wonderful and incredible birthday party for her on the 21st of March. The theme was “Wonder Pets”, so Linny, Tuck, and Ming-Ming helped her celebrate her big day. The cake was absolutely adorable. It was the Wonder Pets flyboat with all three of them sitting on top of it. Aunt Tammy did a wonderful job! Elyssa spent the day surrounded by all the people who love her and care for her and I can say she loved every single second of it! I have to confess that mom loved it as well. It is just so much fun to sit back and watch your child’s eyes fill with excitement as the piñata was broke and the candy and toys fell from the sky, the look of anticipation in her eyes when she saw the cake and the candle that was lit just for her to blow out, and the look of enjoyment as she ripped open all of her presents and played with all the paper and boxes (oh and the toys as well!). Mommy and Daddy got her a new “play kitchen” for her birthday that is now sitting in mommy’s kitchen so Elyssa can cook while mommy is cooking. She has so much food and pots and pans to play with and it is all usually spread across the kitchen, into the living room, and the playroom as well! She will tell me all the time that her kitchen is her “house”…”mom, mom baby house” and run over to it. She calls herself either “baby” or “me” all the time. I try to explain to her that her name is Elyssa and showing her pictures and she will say “Yeah mom, mom me” and point to the picture. I guess eventually someday she will understand.
Aunt Heidi stayed for the week after her birthday and we spent the week doing all kinds of fun things with our little princess. She was glued to Aunt Heidi that week, in fact for 4 days after Aunt Heidi left she would wake up in the morning asking for “Hi-yee” and look around downstairs for “Hi-yee”. I really think she misses her!! That week we took her to parks to play, to Grapevine Mills Mall where she got to ride her first carousal (she was not to thrilled with it), and the big trip was to the Fort Worth Zoo! While at Grapevine Mills Mall we wanted to take her to the Rainforest Café to eat dinner because of how neat and exciting it is. Every 8 minutes while you are eating they put on a “rainforest display” and the whole restaurant is decorated like a rainforest with birds and monkey in the trees, and an incredible display of elephants. They simulate lighting, thunder, rain and the birds, monkey, and elephants all move. It really is a great experience. Well we got seated right in front of the elephant display (as many know, elephants are my favorite) and lets just say Elyssa was NOT impressed. In fact she was so scared she buried her little face in my neck and would not look at anything. We tried for a few minutes to show her there was nothing to be afraid of but it was no use. We ended up having to leave the restaurant and ate at Chili’s and she was just fine. The zoo was a bit of a different experience. She really did enjoy seeing the animals and getting to run around and play on some of the displays. I almost think it was too big for her, she was really tired by the time we left. I think as she gets older she is going to enjoy these kinds of events a lot more. I have ton’s of pictures to post from all the fun we had at the parks, zoo and of her birthday and now that things have settled down around here I hope to get some of them posted!
On a side note, Elyssa had her 2 year check up yesterday. We were excited that there were no shots on that visit and we found out she is growing just wonderfully. She weighs 31 ½ lbs (in the 90%) her length is 35 ½ inches (90-95%), and her BMI 17.6 (75-85%). Her next check-up is not till she is 3 and no more shots till she is 4!
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