Dora and Lilly's Second Birthday

Lilly turned 2 somewhere between the 28th and the 1st...With her Birthday as a Leap Year we chose to celebrate on the 1st since I was technically in labor on the 28th but She wasn't born til the next morning.

Lilly has a slight obession with Dora the Explorer. With that obession I decided I would make her a Dora Cake. With lots of research, since I had never made a fancy cake before, I finally got a simply pattern to do, which could very possibly the way I will make all other cakes in the future.

Ezra's Birthday is the 28th of Feb so we they shared Sunday's Caines Bday Party. Lilly wasn't so sure about the Caines rendition of Happy Birthday and practically jumped in Mollee's arms. (when Mollee is around no one else matters)

 The 2 Birthday Kids

 The Family with the cake, Lilly was so tired until she got a piece of cake

 She got all things Dora or baby dolls.

 Her new "Tablet" that is Dora, you can see her expression "OOOOOOHHHHHHH"

 The Books that go with the tablet reader, and Poppie and Grandma showing her how it works.

IT was a fun day overall , but exhausting.

I took Lilly for her 2 yr check today. Lets just say she is tiny. She is 20lbs and 30 in tall. Right at the bottom of the the scale...but she has ALWAYS been at the bottom.

Decoding Lilly

Lilly talks a lot, but you have to understand her language in order decode the meaning...I don't always understand, but for the most part I get the idea.

"mom" is my mom Lilly's grandma
"poppie" is grandpa
"meaw" is memaw, Gary's mom
"Dretch" is Gretchen
"Moo moo" or "moallee" is Mollee
"saiah" is  Isaiah or any harris boy
"boys" really any of her male cousins
"sushi" Lucy
Apple is all fruit
"Where'd go" where did it go?
"juice" is all liquids in a cup or Shoes

"Het" Heather

"Mac" Mac or Malachi

"Op" Open

"Peas" Please

"Awf" Off

"Pop" Lollypop Which she associates with Aunt Dretch :)

Nigh Nigh- Night night

I am sure there are so many more, but I just can't think of them all right now