TWO years old

Dorothy is TWO!!!! It's gone so fast. If you had asked me that when she was two months old and waking up five times a night, I would have said that it was not going fast enough, but from where I'm standing now, it seems like she was just a baby yesterday.

Dallin was SO nice and gave me a break, in honor of birthing Dorothy two years ago. He took her out while I worked on some homemade Christmas presents (I'm still not done!!!!).

This is my favorite two-year-old tradition. My grandma Carol made us a doll. I still have mine, and she sits in a place of honor in our living room. She made one for Dorothy. Look at them side by side! That's even the same fabric for the dress, though it's pretty hard to tell after all the lovin' my dolly got. Amazing, huh?


Her baby needed to be rocked and read to almost immediately.



Grandma Dorothy also knitted her a baby doll blanket and gave her a book. It is being well used, and some special dolls are being read to kept very warm.


From Mom and Scott, dress-ups and "Fancy Nancy".



She loved those dress-ups SO MUCH that she threw an absolute fit when we tried to take them off for breakfast, so we thought, what the heck? It's her birthday. We layered lots of bibs and towells and she ate her waffles looking fabulous.
It was a very low key birthday on our part. She had a lovely afternoon of playing with her toys, chatting with Grandma and Grandpa "Lewlis", and eating her favorite dinner and cake. We're putting so much into Dorothy's Christmas present that we're combining her Christmas and birthday, so we didn't give her anything except diaper changes : ). She didn't seem to notice.

On a side not, here's some of our Christmas decorations.


We're not allowed to have a real tree in our apartment, and I'm not a huge fan of the fake ones. (You can say I'm a snob, I know it.) Here's our solution! Dorothy and I went out on adventure and collected pretty sticks, bits of evergreen branches, and pine cones. We put them all in our huge vase, hung the ornaments on them, and put the pine cones around the bottom. In the end I think it turned out lovely. It's not as expensive or as much of a hassle as a tree, and it made for a REALLY fun afternoon with Miss Dorothy. She has since developed an acute skill for locating stray sticks and pointing them out.