Happy 2nd Birthday!

And today Cara is officially a TWO YEAR OLD! And boy is she feisty.

She started here:


Got to here last year:


And now look at her! She actually has HAIR!


Of course that's not all that makes her so neat to have as a little sister according to me:

Favorite Movie: Susan (Monsters vs. Aliens)
Favorite Food: Grapes
For fun Cara likes to : Play Games
What color is her hair: White
What game do I like play with her: Chips (meaning chess)
She likes to jump in the pool and use her floaties (Mommy has never seen her do this however so maybe I'm talking about me)

That's a pretty good list but Mommy says she'll help me talk about more stuff now.
-Cara is our eater. If she likes it, she will eat it and lots of it. She tries anything we put in front of her. Recently she has quit eating hot dogs though and doesn't always care for bananas which used to be her favorite food. Mommy thinks Cara's favorite food might be chicken nuggets or "Chick Nugs" because she frequently requests them (and gets them) for breakfast. Oh and she loves lettuce! Go figure.
-She likes to talk and tell you stories. You can understand maybe 3/4 of what she says. She also frequently sings songs. Any song that comes to her head. She knows two verses to "I Am A Child of God"
-She's still signing and likes to do it.
-She knows her colors and gets them mixed up only once in a while
-Still loves her diapers
-Has an okay handle on her letters. She does pretty good but still sometimes sounds like she's guessing.
-She LOVES to be outside and will wander out into the backyard and just stay out there, doing who knows what and singing and talking to herself.
-She is also an animal lover. She will play shy to an animal for about two minutes after first meeting but will then proceed to love and pet and snuggle and try and feed said animal. I never really warmed up to animals like Cara did.
-She re-warmed up to Grandpa. She took a little break from preferring him and now is starting to go right to him again.
-More of a tantrum thrower than I ever was. She can yell and scream and kick her legs...and the strangest things seem to set her off. (However she doesn't whine quite as much as me! :P )
-She has the funniest habit of needing to touch your skin with her feet. She will just push and nudge and press those little bare feet in to any bare skin you have. (Even if the only skin she can find is your face!)

There are a hundred more things that we love about Cara but it is really hard to put it all in to words. So instead we'll end here and just yell:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARA! WE LOVE YOU!

As an update to this post, Cara had her 2 year well check with Dr. Clark on Monday August 15. She is now a whopping 24 lbs and 31.5 inches! (Yeah..just plugged that in to the growth chart: we are 12% for weight which is awesome for her and a very tall 3% for height. She's such a shrimp!)