Catherine Sue is Two!

We started Catherine's birthday morning by taking both girls to get some pictures at 6 months and two years. 

Ann was a much more willing participant in this project than Catherine. 

By the way, Ann's eyes have darkened just a bit, but they are still blue-ish and definitely not brown.  I'm hoping they'll stay but the pediatrician in BJ said he didn't think with two dark brown-eyes parents there was much of a chance.  We'll see!

This is the only decent picture we got of both of them.  Mostly because Catherine just wanted to play with all the toys/props.  Or she wanted to stand right next to the lady taking the picture.  Or she wanted to escape the room to go play on the stairs. 

They wanted her shoes off to stand on the backdrop, so then she's barefoot riding a bicycle which looks weird.  But not as weird as what follows.  

My favorite!

This is Catherine with just about every prop and toy (minus the flower basket) she could get her hands on.  She wanted them all.  And they added the glasses. 

We wanted to take Catherine to this park/sports complex to play, but Ann still takes a nap in the mornings so we wanted to have the stroller so she could sleep.  But, we also didn't want to have to walk.  One good idea by James and a few straps later, problem solved.  We can take the trike and the stroller.  We already get stared it why not make it a bit more fun for everyone? 

Catherine riding the elephants. 

Completely indicative of her personality.

I'll make another post about this outfits the girls are wearing. 

This little girl was so nice to Catherine.  We went home for lunch and naps. 

We had a party in the evening to celebrate the departure of two couples, the arrival of a new woman, and Catherine's birthday.  The first gift she opened was snack crackers from America :)

And another friend made her a coloring book with different animals labeled in three languages.  The pen is attached to the book and the pages stapled together.  It cam with a disclaimer on back that it was guaranteed not to clutter my house. 

The festivities underway.

She also received a book

Opening her present from mom and dad

a dog blanket.  I'll post more about this in the next post.

A friend who came to the party said she had never seen a child enjoy having the birthday song sung to her as much as Catherine seemed to.  She was all smiles...our little attention-loving daughter.

blowing out the candle

with daddy and sister (and bear)

with mommy and sister

Look at me!  I'm two years old!