Hug Hug Kiss Kiss

Check out the birthday girl! Two years old! Woohoo...how sweet it is!


Grandma Barb helping me say, "I'm TWO!"

(I worked with her all day on putting up two fingers on the same hand, I finally realized, that's a bit much for right now, it's a lot easier to show one finger on each hand...hey it's still two right?!)

Okay, now are you wondering how the big birthday went? We had planned to go have pizza at a local pizza place which was something we used to do a lot with the inlaws on Thursday nights, but we decided against it when we heard her ANC was only 420 yesterday. We really weren't going to chance it unless she had surpassed that 500 "safe" mark. It's a good thing too, b/c the nurse called me this morning and opened with, "so her ANC is 42." I was like, "WHAT?!" Yep, she did the math for me and my mom and I had figured it wrong! Her ANC was only 42. It dropped again! The nurse said that everything else looks good, WBC 1.5, HGB, 11.6, PLTS 480,000, monos 20. She thinks her bone marrow is trying to recover, but she admitetd they may have let us go too soon. Apparently Chelsea's ANC is bouncing all over the place this time, we really have no idea what to think. Ryan and I were pretty nervous all evening though. I could have swore she was trying to spike a fever, but nothing yet. She'll definitely be sleeping with us tonight. I would hate for her to spike and not know until morning, especially when her immune system is pretty much ZERO right now! Yikes...

So back to the party ... we went ahead and did the whole shabang last night. I decided at 5pm that we were having a party at 6pm! Am I crazy...you all know the answer to that. So I frantically picked up everything in sight (we've got lots of good hiding places at our house!) The only bad thing about a fly by the seat of your pants birthday party is that I didn't get to make her special shirt. I am however going to use all of your great suggestions for logos for her very special 2nd birthday scrapbook page. So all your hard brainstorming hasn't gone to waste! And Bailee, I may just have to go ahead and make her a shirt that says '2 cute' ...just for you!

We ordered pizza, ate cupcakes and opened lots of presents. My girl is soooo spoiled, I can't even begin to tell you. Out of all the gifts though the one she got the biggest kick out of was the singing pink hippo I got for 10 bucks after buying 3 cards at Hallmark! She was dancing to it and she had her tongue moving from side to side with the beat of the music. It was hilarious.

We knew from the day she was born her birthday fell at a bad time of year. When family visited in the hospital they all had to wear masks b/c most of them were sick. At her first birthday party, everyone was nursing the after holiday colds...and then again this year we were missing over half of our crew! Out of 7 grandparents, only three could come. We missed the ones that were sick, Grandma Carolyn, Nora and Karen and Grandpa David. And of course we missed Grandpa Doug too, it's just not the same.

Both kids were absolutely shot by the end of the night and Logan even honored us with one of his royal temper tantrums. Aren't those supposed to be put on by the two year old's? Anyways, it made for a nice dramatic ending to the evening. Hopefully Chelsea will remember to throw such a show at his birthday in April...I doubt it though.

Here she is with the pink flying hippo (I think it's a hippo???)


And there goes the crazy tongue!

"Lalalalala, hug hug, kiss kiss....lalalalala, hug hug, kiss kiss!"


A birthday wish from one of my boyfriends! (His mom posted it on my message board and I thought it was too cute not to share!) We love you Noah!