One week from today my sweet girl will be 2 years old. I know.. it blows my mind too. It does NOT feel like almost 2 years have past since we brought her home from the hospital. It blows my mind everyday how smart she is and how much she makes me laugh. Saturday we will celebrate her birthday.. I’ll post pictures of her very Elmo birthday party.. and her awesome birthday invites from this year!! :)

Briley Grace.. at almost 2 years old:
You love Elmo.. but you call him “Mel-mo.”
You love Mickey Mouse.. but you call him “icky.”
You’ve recently made “no-way” the number 1 used phrase in your vocabulary.
You never can just say “Hey mama!” You say: “Hey mama! Hey Mama! Hey!!”
You’ve recently become a big time mommy’s girl.. which mommy loves.
You ALWAYS stop me when I’m busiest to get me to hug you.
When you hug, you squeeze me tight.
You love giving kisses.
You could carry on a conversation with anyone.. even if they had no idea what you were talking about.
You like to make friends with everyone.
You get your feelings hurt VERY easily.
You have your daddy wrapped very tightly around your finger. You could get ANYTHING you wanted just by smiling at him.. please don’t use that information against him though.
Your already a world traveler with a passport.
You’ve traveled more that a lot of adults.
You have a favorite hotel.
You LOVE the water and you could swim for hours.
Your a dare devil and a fire cracker.
You are fearless.
Your the toughest kid I’ve ever met.
Your obsessed with shoes and you drag every pair you own into the living room daily.
You love to play in mommy’s makeup… and steal her makeup brushes.. and hide them.
Mommy now has to keep the bedroom door shut to KEEP you from stealing her makeup brushes.
You’ve become a picky eater… you only eat bread.
You LOVE lemonade and sweet tea.
Dum-Dum suckers are your most favorite candy in the whole world!
You LOVE to “go!” anywhere and everywhere and sometimes it’s the first thing you say when you wake up in the morning.
You sleep a LOT.
If you don’t get all of your sleep… you can be mean.
You LOVE books but you don’t like to be read to. YOU like to read them to us.
You love to sing and dance.
You love to swing and slide and play outside for hours.
Your so independent and smart.
You already do chores like putting things away in different rooms of the house and throwing things in the trash can.. but you ALWAYS ask for “five” (high five) after every good thing you do.
You used the potty all by yourself yesterday. You squealed.. I danced.. you laughed at me.
You MUST be kissed good night before bed.. you make sure of that.
You don’t like to have help doing anything.
Your very independent.
You know how to start the washing machine and you make sure that I let you do it every time.
Your “bankie” goes EVERYWHERE with you. You aren’t aware of this yet but we have 2… we trade them out. (sorry to lie to you but It’s for your own good… it was too traumatic when we had to wash bankie.”)
You LOVE to color and make crafts. We make crafts every week.
You have to “oooo” and “awww” over the Christmas tree daily!
You can count to 6!
You know tons of animal sounds and we ask you to do them const