This is Adelia. Today she is two. She insists that we let her "do it myself!" This includes doing her hair, brushing her teeth, screwing the lid on her sippy cup, and just about everything else. Luckily for her, she's always been just as adorable as she is feisty.
Adelia wanted to pick her own cake, but couldn't make up her mind what she wanted. We went back and forth between a heart cake and a twinkle star cake, among other varies kinds of cakes. Then I decided that she and I would sit down together at the computer and look at pictures of cakes to help her decide. She picked a fish cake. Which is very appropriate because she loves to watch fish in fish tanks whenever we have the opportunity. I thought the cake turned out really cute, despite the fact that it was a disaster to put together. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong did, but finally after many hours and at least 4 trips to the grocery store, it came together. (To be fair, the cake we looked at online did not come with a pattern or instructions, so I was winging it a little bit, and didn't know how much I needed of everything. If I were to make it a second time, it would be a piece of cake. Haha, get it? A piece of cake... Mom and Aaron that one was for you.)
Grandma and Grandpa Swan, and cousins Jeremiah and Baby Claire came over for dinner, presents and cake. It was nice to have a little party.
Adelia did awesome at opening her presents this year. And all three boys did awesome and leaving her to it. Yay for improvements all around!
Lincoln and Ivan really wanted to give Adelia individual presents of their own this year. I took them to Target and told them they had $5 apiece to spend. The took the challenge very seriously; we were there wandering through the same three isles for two hours. But we finally came up with something they were happy with. Lincoln got Adelia a little Tinkerbell figure. And Ivan got Adelia a Belle that came with two rubbery dresses. Aaron and I gave her the book Herold and the Purple Crayon, and a Cabbage Patch doll, which Adelia promptly named Nora. We wanted to buy her a little doll cradle to go with Nora, but they want a ridiculous amount for the stupid, flimsy, plastic things and even more for a wooden one. Aaron decided to try his hand at making one instead. He bought a board at Home Depot for $13 and made it into a beautiful, sturdy cradle. We did not get a good picture of it tonight, so I'll take one tomorrow and have Aaron write a post about how he made it later.
Adelia was really excited about her baby doll and the cradle. Well, and all the dolls really. She calls them all babies and she'd pile them all into the cradle and put them to bed by spreading her blanket over the top of them. In about one minute she'd wake them all up, snuggle them, and put them back to bed. It was pretty cute.
Right after presents Gramma Tam and Papa Kerry and Uncle Tanner called to sing happy birthday. Here is a picture of Adelia very intently listening to their song. Gramma Tam asked her what she got for her birthday and she replied, "The phone!" :)
And then we ate cake...
Happy Birthday Adelia! We love you so much. Our family would not be the same without you in it.
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