Bella's 2nd Birthday

Here are some pics from Bella's birthday. About a month or so before her birthday, I asked Bella what she wanted for her birthday, and she said, "A birthday cake." I asked, "What kind of birthday cake do you want?" And she said, "An Ariel birthday cake!" She's ever even seen an Ariel birthday cake! But I think the Disney princesses are just a part of every little girl's brain, despite me trying to limit princess exposure. :) So I decided to make her an Ariel birthday cake, and it took four hours to frost the cake, but I was pretty pleased with how it turned out.

She had a great time at her party, though on her birthday itself, she had her 2 year molars really bugging her. She had another night where she slept a total of 3 nonconsecutive hours before her normal time getting up. She screamed and cried and wriggled in our arms because she was in so much pain from her teeth. She has such a hard time with them- as you may remember, she ended up with a 105 degree fever in urgent care for her first tooth, and in the ER for not keeping any food or drink down with her one year molars. Thank goodness none of us remember how traumatic teething can be. Hopefully this is about the last of her hurtful teething she'll have to endure.

Bella started a new two year old classroom- with some days with 12 2 year olds! She has a lot of fun with them since she is doing new things and they are all talking more and playing together. She comes home and tells me the names of her new friends. For the last 2 months, her best buddies moved up to the 2 year old class and she had to stay with the infants until she was 2, so she was a year older than the next oldest kids, so she has been really good with the transition to the older room.

We have recently had a very sad loss in our family this week. Our nephew who suffered with Cystic Fibrosis passed away. His health was declining from complications related to the disease, and he was hospitalized in the ICU for the past 13 months. He would have been 5 in June. It has been really hard, because even though we don't get to visit Steve's family much and we made plans to visit Finn (and Steve's other family) for Christmas, we weren't able to see him then since he was transferred to a hospital in DC after we bought the plane tickets. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.

As for the rest of us, we are still trying to get settled. We are trying to work on our backyard since it is a bunch of dirt and slope right now, and we'd like some nice grass for Bella to run around and play in. I'm trying to keep my spirits up despite receiving a potential layoff notice. Steve's coming up on the busy season at his job, so it's been a little crazy at work for him. But we have jobs and a house, so we are in a lot better shape than a lot of people.

Hope you are all doing well. :)

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