Taylor Turns 2!!

Happy 2nd birthday, Taylor Grace!

Taylor turned 2 on November 24th, which happened to be Thanksgiving day! We had a wonderful time celebrating Taylor's birthday last week. Sam and I were both off of work Wednesday through Friday, so we took Taylor out to GymQuest and Red Robin on Wednesday to celebrate as a family. She loved every minute of jumping on the trampoline and falling into the foam pit at GymQuest, and loved it even more when the servers at Red Robin sang to her and gave her a balloon!

Thursday was Thanksgiving, and we had a wonderful time at Grandma and Grandpa Forst's house. Taylor was in rare form, enjoying her blocks and jumping off of the first step of the stairs (over, and over, and over!).

On Friday, we had fun bowling with the Pavelka clan! Taylor rolled a couple of bowling balls down the bumper lane, which she loved!

Taylor is growing like crazy. She speaks in full sentences now. Our favorite repeated sayings are:

"It's ok mama, it's just ____ (random item that she decides to be afraid of that day)"
"Mama/dada, I need to ask you something" (and then doesn't have any question for us)
"I love you mama/dada!"
"OH WOW, look at that ____!!!"
"Holy moley!"
"Aiy-aiy-aiy!"

She is on her way to being potty trained - she usually goes #1 in the potty 3-5 times per day, and she lets us know when she needs to go. She has gone #2 once, but still seems hesitant. We are going to potty train her hard-core when we are on winter break.

She is also fully into her terrible twos: we hear a lot of "Leave me alone!" or "Don't touch/look at me!". She also chooses to refuse to do certain random things, like brushing her teeth, eating, or cleaning up, which lands her in time-out. She also decided to take mommy's wedding ring before mommy was awake and throw it into her diaper pail. We spent an entire day frantically searching the house for it. I don't know what made us look in the diaper pail, but we are sure glad we did!!

Here are some pictures of Taylor celebrating her 2nd birthday!

Loving rolling around on the mats!

Admiring the big kids doing flips!

Rolling around!

Falling in the foam pit!

Testing out the balance beam!

Getting our haircut at Boozle-B's!

The "after" picture!

Taking a big spoonful of birthday ice cream at Red Robin!

Bowling!