Spring MEGA-Post!

Who can believe that our beautiful Heidi Grace is now 2 years old? Her Mom and Dad certainly cant! She is such an amazing, sweet, smart, loving and funny little girl! We had a low-key birthday celebration and went to Chuck-E-Cheese! This was Heidi's first time, so she was totally loving it!

Here she is with her adorable "Birthday Princess" hat on eating her own mega-huge piece of birthday cake (which Mommy made!)

Here she is saying "hi!" to Uncle Scott through the plexi-glass of the jungle gym.

Here she is lovin' her friends the Weissmann girls

I had to inclue the obligatory blowing out the candles pic too, of course!

(Isn't it sooo cute how Daddy's is holding her up to blow out the candles!?!)

And now for a little perspective, let's look at how much our little princess has changed in just one year! Ahhh, how much difference a year can make!

(My goodness, she was unhappy about eating her birthday cake at her first birthday party!)

(She was MUCH happier at her second birthday!)

And then we celebrated Easter! The family got up early and went to church and then we came back home to have a lovely brunch with our great friends' the Masseys and Heidi had the most fun hunting for eggs!

Heidi loved crawling on Daddy's back!

Look at that face!

Heidi loves baby Emmy!

and in closing, doesn't Heidi look sooo cute with her bunny ears on!?!

"That's my Momma!"

Heidi is really growing up! {Tear} Its so amazing to see how every day she is less of a baby and more of a little girl. Although Dad and I are fighting it by still referring to her as "the baby." Its so funny to me how, as parents, our number one objective is to guide these precious little monkeys to grow up and be the best they can be - what ever that may be - yet, are in a way fighting it along the way. I find myself thinking, Ah, this is the PERFECT age, I wish I could freeze time and just soak this up a little longer! Well, I'm doing it again, because Heidi is starting to form short sentences... and it is melting my heart! She is talking and babbling virtually all of the time now, but unfortunately I don't understand 90% of what she is saying. Last week I was pretty sure she said "I want my Papa" while we where up in Montana. Ahhhh, so sweet. Then a couple of nights ago Brian, Heidi and I were at the mall. Brian and Heidi were letting me have a little alone time at the Clinique counter (its bonus time!) when all of the sudden Heidi came running up to me and the sales girl and exclaimed, as clear as a bell, "That's my Momma!!!" Every one within earshot collectively sighed, "ahhhhh" and once again my heart had melted! As Heidi is becoming more of a toddler/diva I often become nostalgic for those times when she was an infant, but am realizing more and more that the best is yet to come, and it is such a wonderful ride!

Heidi Got a New Friend Today!

What an exciting day we all had! Our dear friends The Massey's welcomed their daughter, Emerson, into the world today! Heidi has been eagerly awaiting the arrival of her new friend for 9 months now, and she was sooooo excited to finally meet her today! Okay, okay, maybe I'm exaggerating her understanding today's momentous events, but I have to say she was really, really excited! Emerson is more gorgeous than we had even expected, and her mom and dad did an amazing job bringing her into the world. We all lover her already. Yay for new babies!