Our Birthday Girl
At 4 lbs and dropping down to 3 lbs 9 oz, our sweet girl was our BIG baby! Both children were born early due to eclampsia/pre-eclampsia. Our little Elisabeth turns 2 this week! We can’t believe how much she’s changed. She has gone from a sick, tiny baby with black hair and gray eyes, to a big sturdy toddler with curly blonde hair and hazel brown eyes like my mother. Due to my husband’s work schedule, we decided to celebrate a little earlier so that we would have the whole day together. Well, actually this was her second birthday party. My in-laws live a few hours away, so we went to visit them last week and she had a little party with them too. Our son (he’s 4 years old) has realized that birthday’s are profitable for him too! Since he’s our only other child so far, and he is so little, everyone tends to get him a present too so that he doesn’t feel left out of anything!
We decided to take them to a local historical place for a little tour and a picnic! There were several hundred acres for them to run and run! They blew bubbles, played football, and were so hungry by lunchtime that they ate that picnic lunch like it was gourmet! We followed that up with sugar cookies sprinkled with pink and yellow sugar crystals. On the way home we stopped at a tiny little place that had AMAZING ice cream!!
By the time we got home, everyone had fallen asleep in the back of the car so we changed them into pajamas and they took a nap….and they slept for 3 hours! I was starting to panic because they slept for so long. When they finally woke up, we decided to open presents! The baby was so excited to find among other things, a castle, a pink fishing rod, and a beautiful little green and white Strasburg dress with a matching white satin hair bow. My Grandmother had also sent the children a box just full of the things that little boys and little girls love to play with! Lots of stickers, coloring books, dolls, dinosaurs and even a little silver crown that said “Happy Birthday” so that everyone would know who was queen for the day.
Then it was time to get everyone dressed up for the baby’s big birthday dinner. At this stage, she doesn’t care too much about where we go to eat, as long as there is food! So we picked a little place in town and had a nice dinner. The waitress knew my husband, and when she found out it was the baby’s birthday, she brought out a giant slab of 3 layer orange blossom cake with whipped cream, oranges, and pink candles on top! It’s not the type of restaurant where they sing to you, but believe me, we were fine with that. We’re thinking about going there to get a birthday cake the next time any of us has a birthday! Yum!!