Happy Birthday, Georgie!
March 13th, 2010- When Georgie woke up from her nap, a very special visitor had arrived,
- Uncle Adam right away started helping Georgie decorate her birthday cake.
- Here Georgie is showing off the birthday balloon she picked out – a dolphin.
- Next Nikki lit the candles.
- And Georgie blew them out.
- Her four grandparents got her a lot of nice things.
- Georgie’s real party is next week but we wanted her to open some presents and have cake on her big day.
- Here she is opening her new chef costume. She didn’t totally understand at first but just wait…
- Nikki cuts the birthday cake.
- Probably Georgie’s biggest dose of straight sugar in her life.
- Then it was time to dress up our little chef.
- We didn’t even have to explain — she ran right over to her kitchen.
Well yesterday Georgie turned two and the second year seems to have twice as fast as the first. There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by the last year that Nikki and I haven’t talked about something Georgie did that just amazed us. Every day is such a wonderful adventure with her.
I didn’t get to see Georgie as much as I would have liked yesterday but Nikki did a great job making her feel like the birthday girl all day. She took her to a party store and let her pick out what kind of cake she wanted (orange) and what kind of balloon she wanted (dolphin). Then they made a rainy day fun by splashing in puddles.
By the time she got up from her nap, Uncle Adam was here. Adam thought it might take her a few days to warm up to him but she was in his lap in about five minutes, asking for stories and playing with his watch.
She spent all of the afternoon giddy with excitement. After dinner, we showed Georgie her new big girl bed right next to ours. She was very excited about it. As soon as she saw it she said, “Georgie snuggle in it!”
Later on, she continued to be so excited about her new bed (and her birthday and Uncle Adam, and being fueled with sugar) that she couldn’t get to sleep until 10:30.
I’m not sure what the rest of the weekend holds. Uncle Adam and I were going to go fishing near Shenandoah but it’s pretty rainy and it turns out that Virginia trout licenses are rather expensive for non-residents. We’ll see how that turns out.
What I do know is that this next year is going to be just as amazing as the last one and go by even faster. Nikki and I both feel like Fred Flintstone digging our heels into the ground, trying to slow down time.
So Happy Birthday to Georgie, our sweet, clever and hilarious two-year-old!








































































