Happy Second Birthday Scarlett!

Our baby girl turned 2 today! She was SO excited. She's been telling me "my birthday Tuesday" for a few days now. She was most excited about "birthday cake and presents". We had playdate this morning so she got to play with her friends Will and Grayson, then we came home and after an unsuccessful attempt at a nap, she opened presents and we ate dinner and birthday brownies! (I thought cake today, cupcakes Saturday morning and cake Saturday night was a bit overkill on the cake thing...). Scarlett especially loved the icing.

Toting around her presents while waiting for Daddy to come downstairs

Starting to open - she got a new baby doll from Grandma and Grandpa Barnes. She LOVES it! It's in her bed right now. She loves that it came with "shampoo" so she can give her a bath.Little People castle from Randy and Jennifer - another hit!

Vacuum from me and Cameron (she LOVES to clean up!)Also presents I didn't happen to get a picture of - from me and Cameron princess dress up shoes, the new Tinkerbell movie, a Snow White playset and Ariel and Belle mini dolls and from Ray and Nina and Lisa and Ryan - If you take a Mouse to the Movies book and matching mouse doll (Loves that too! - we've read the book over and over already!) and from Grandpa a Toys R Us gift card. Thanks everyone!!
Here's the birthday girl with her birthday brownies. She was even able to blow out the candles all by herself!

We are excited about more birthday fun this weekend with Gigi and Donk, Gammie and Papa (and Peach!), Coco and Grandpa and Uncle Colin in town. And of course we can't wait for the Build a Bear party with our friends! More pictures to come soon!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We put up our tree yesterday and Scarlett was VERY excited. She kept running around telling puppy "Puppy, look! Christmas tree!!".

She helped put up the tree (sitting in the box!)

And attempted to put on a couple ornaments

She found my Clarice bobble head ("reindeer") and made her kiss the Rudolph ornament on the tree
All done!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Thanksgiving dinner was a success! I single handedly prepared turkey, dressing, stove top (yeah, Cameron HAD to have that too), mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potato souffle, green bean casserole, cranberry, macaroni and cheese, orange salad, pumpkin pie and dark chocolate mint cheesecake. I think that's all... It was A LOT! But I said if I was going to do it, we were going eat it for 3 days. Cameron and I stuffed ourselves with everything, but Scarlett wouldn't touch anything but mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese. Turkey comas ensued:

HAHA...yeah, nice pose by Scarlett. Turkey comas were true for me and Cameron, but Scarlett was on a carb high or something!

Kitty...MEOW!!

American Girl

Here's Scarlett and Bitty Baby sporting their matching outfits. Aren't they the cutest??

Scarlett loves Pandas. And other updates...

Scarlett is officially obsessed with pandas. We saw this little guy in Wal Mart and she gave him the biggest hug and proceeded to kiss all over him the whole way through grocery shopping. I had intended to stash it away for her birthday, but she found him again once we got home and exclaimed "PANDA!" and gave him the biggest hug. So he's hers now. She sleeps with him every night (along with a slew of other stuffed animals and toys...honestly I don't know how she fits in her bed too).

She put him up here to have a snack.

Making out.
Other than being in love with pandas, we haven't been up to much around here. Scarlett and I both had a touch of a cold last week, but we are better now. Scarlett's full on terrible two - refusing to sleep, eat and bathe. Or just about anything else I ask her to do. Good thing she's so darn cute.

We went to the bounce place today and Scarlett had a blast. She LOVES it there. Her favorite today was the gigantic slide. "More slide! More slide!"

Last bit of Halloween

Here's that picture of Scarlett we got taken at the mall. Sorry it's taken me so long to post. Had to get Cameron to scan it. I almost don't know what to do with prints!!