I have to preface this blog with a huge thank you to my husband.
You see, I wasn't clearly using my head, and I ended losing ALL of her birthday pictures. (Really, it is a long story of how it happened and I won't bore you with the details.) The important part was that I had no evidence of her 2nd birthday.
This really upset me and I felt as if I had missed a part of her life since I had no verification of it. I knew that both grandma's at the party had been taking pictures, but it wasn't the same. There were specific shots that I was so excited to see and photos that I had captured that were priceless and they were all missing.
Well, that's when my husband comes in.
He found a program that recovers files that had already been deleted. Unfortunately, not all files can be recovered. He downloaded it, and was able to find about 1/2 of our pictures. I am still missing certain ones that I was really excited about, as well as some videos (singing happy birthday to her as she blows out the candles) but the important part is that at least now I actually have some birthday pictures. I would never have thought that was even possible.
Thank you Sam!
So, our baby turned 2 on July 19th but she seems so much older for the following reasons:
1) Jocelyn continues to grow in height and is still in the 90th percentile for her age.
2) She sings her ABC's, as clear as day, only stumbling on "now I know my ABC's, next time won't you sing with me."
3) She can count to 14. Yes, 14, and again, very clearly.
4) She sings Twinkle twinkle, Jingle Bells, and Itsy-Bitsy Spider.
5) Does not/will not sit in a high chair and prefers not to be in a booster seat.
6) Is extremely independent and wants to do EVERYTHING on her own.
Her birthday party had no theme...just good company, good food, and good times. A friend of ours let us borrow her large bouncer for the yard (pictures below.) The kids had a lot of fun with it except that it was 100 degrees outside and even hotter inside the bouncer. We ended up put a sprinkler directly in front of the entrance so that you had to get wet as you went in and as you came out. We were attempting to prevent any heat exhaustion or stroke.
Jocelyn partaking of her special cake
Genevieve and Ashlyn
I saw this cake off a friend of a friends blog (thanks Sara!) and thought I had to try it. Each layer has fresh fruit in it. Red has raspberries, orange-oranges, yellow-lemon, green-lime, blue-blueberries, and purple-blackberries. It was not the quickest or easiest cake, to say the least, but it was exciting to see the results. It was completely covered in white chocolate frosting, so no one had any idea what kid of cake it was...until it was cut into. It was actually really fun to eat, because we all seemed to eat slowly, trying to decide which flavor was are favorite. It actually smelled like fruit loops when it came out of the oven.
The large bouncer that barely fit in our side yard.
These were taken prior to the guest arriving. All of the shots with the kids in it are unable to be retrieved. :(
The birthday girl
At the end of the day, when everyone had left, Jocelyn found her blankie, her finger, and a nice resting place. She was BEAT!
As Sam took down the bouncer, the girls had absolutely no energy left. Genevieve is very motherly and is trying to comfort Jocelyn
Is it time for bed yet?
2 comments:
Happy Birthday Jocelyn! I absolutely recognize the cake from "The Coco Cafe" blog. It looks amazing, I have also been tempted to try it.
Oooh, the losing the pictures thing brings back memories. We lost all the pictures from the first 4-5 months of Caitlin's life that were on the computer. The computer apparently had a virus that infected many of the pictures. Fortunately I had printed the best ones, but no digital record remains. I guess it's a good thing babies aren't that cute then anyway. :)
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