The Richards Rundown: Birthday Princess

Up until today, it has been a long, boring week at our house. I have been sick with a virus that turned into a sinus infection and I haven't been at the top of my game. By Wednesday morning Benson was begging to go ANYWHERE, even to the doctor if it meant that we could leave the house. Thankfully Mike worked from 12pm to 9pm on Thursday so he took the kids to the park in the morning before he had to go to work. If he hadn't I think the kids would have gone crazy, followed closely by their mother. So yesterday we decided to meet Mike at the mall after work so that the kids could go out and so that we could get Grace's birthday presents. While we were there we went into Claire's and found a tiara for Grace that said "Birthday Girl" on it. We put it on her and she said "Princess" and wouldn't let us take it off. She wore it all over the mall and I don't think we have ever had so many people smile at us. It was pretty cute.

Today was Grace's 2nd Birthday. She was the first one up this morning and came and climbed in bed with us. We told her the story of the day she was born and snuggled until Benson woke up and then we went out to the living room to open presents. She was really into opening her presents this year, and so was Benson. He was probably a little too helpful, but Grace didn't seem to mind. She got a backpack, some new clothes, Cinderella, bracelets, a trunk of dress-up clothes, and a Little People Castle. She was very excited when we opened the dress-up clothes and started piling the clothes on. We let her play for a while and then tried to take the extra clothes off so she could eat breakfast, which was our first mistake of the day. She pitched a fit worthy of the title Birthday Princess. Once she ate and had her bath she got dressed up again and the rest of the day was pretty low-key. We watched Cinderella, went and ate lunch at Carl's Jr, took naps, and played. For dinner we had shells which is one of Grace's favorites, and then we had cake before bed. We've decided that Gracie is definitely the fun loving rascal of our family. We are grateful that we have her around to liven things up.

Tonight during scriptues we noticed that Sabrina has learned to "crawl". Our definition of "crawl" meaning that she can now move forward willfully. A few days ago she started getting up on all fours and then lifting up one hand at a time so we knew she was getting closer. I'm sure in a few more days she will have a real crawl down.

Here's a few pictures from our day: