Happy 2nd Birthday Cailin!

We celebrated Cailin's birthday on Monday, May 24. We barbecued over my Mom's house and then had cake and ice cream. She loves to watch Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer, but her favorite cartoon is SpongeBob Squarepants. When it comes on in the morning, she tries to sing the song. Always managing to come in and sing along when they yell "SpongeBob Squarepants!"

We sat her in front of the cake and she could hardly keep her hands off.

She was digging in the icing and licking her fingers.

We could hardly keep her out. Look! She is using both hands here.

I bought her this nice and sweet Two-year-old candle to go on top of her cake. Well I went off and left the candle at home. So we decided to improvise and use the candle that Ariel had on her First Birthday Cake, that my Mother had saved all this time. The problem was it had a big number one on it. To solve that problem we used construction paper and Jerry drew and cut out a number two. From the looks of it, we were fooling nobody!

We stood her up in the chair and she cut the cake like a big girl.

And then she licked the knife! I was shaking in my pants but everyone was right there waiting to jump in. We would have gotten her to the hospital, quick fast and in a hurry had she sliced of her tongue. Just kidding it was a little sharper than a butter knife.
side note: Jerry just came past as I was posting this picture and said, "She is licking the knife!" As in how could we let her lick the knife!
Ariel says, "It was her birthday!"

I eat the cake

Look at her eating that cake.... and using that spoon like a big girl! Lately she has been able to use a spoon and even a fork almost perfectly. I say almost because she still tends to turn them when she gets close to her mouth and spill the contents off. She is still such a big girl though!

She really liked the cake although she is not a sweet-tooth person like Ariel and I. I don't remember ever having any real cravings with her. I just ate everything....LOL! While I was pregnant with Ariel I lived on pancakes for breakfast. I would cook them some at home, but mostly I stopped at McDonald's or Perkins and ate them for breakfast. I would eat like 6 pancakes from McDonald's, which is two orders of pancakes! I'm a little ashame to admit that. Poor Ariel was probably swimming in syrup the entire pregnancy.
Anyway, Cailin eats just a little bit of sweets and then she is done.




She is having a blast eating her cake. We sang "Happy Birthday" to her the entire day. So much so that whenever we would start the song she would finish singing "Happy Birthday to me!"

The end...

Notice my Mother took the Bear candle with the number one back. She did that after I threatened to take it home with me!