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due January 16, 2014

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Norah is TWO?!

this past weekend we celebrated Norah's 2nd birthday. we kept it really simple, just our immediate family, some pizza, a "purple animal cake" and lots of fun. i'd like to get all the pictures from the party up but it will probably wait until this weekend. her actual birthday is tomorrow, and we're having another (VERY) small celebration tomorrow night. i'm making her favorite dinner (spaghetti) and we're having a little more cake and she's opening her presents from mark and i. i can't wait!

here's a short video from sunday. we all thought it was so funny that she knew to blow out the candles on her own :P

someone's turning two!

little mouse's 2nd birthday is in 20 DAYS! i cannot believe it. i will be totally cliche and say that it feels like i just got done planning her 1st birthday but it really does. especially since the holiday season always flies by! but now that christmas is over i am in full-on party planning mode.

the most fun part of birthdays (for me) is present-giving! we try to keep christmas simple so that we can spoil norah a little more on her birthday. after all, her birthday IS about HER and christmas is not. here are a few things i've had my eye on and that i know she would love:

1. toy guitar

2. classic matching game

3. vintage alphabet backpack

4. wheely cow (large)

5. magnetic robots

6. doorway puppet theater

7. rabbit and raccoon puppets

8. veggie plushes

9. wooden bowling set

while we don't have the means to get her all of these things (and even if we did, i wouldn't get it all. as much as i love to buy things for norah i just can't justify going too crazy.) a few people had asked me for ideas on what to get her. if you're out there reading - just pick off this list! ;)

no more mullet - norah's 1st haircut

{{ wordless wednesday }}

i still can't believe i did it ... at least she seems to like it! :)

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