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What a crazy, busy day – we didn’t even leave the house. We basically opened presents and played with everything as we went. Brianna is not a toss the present aside kind of gal – she must play with them as she goes. So, she was basically opening presents from 9 AM to 8 PM, with a nap in between. Brace yourselves – you are about to see 37 pictures (which is only 10% of what we took). I think it is safe to say we are all exhausted!

Look at all the presents. When she saw them all together, her mouth rounded in a big “ooooo!” Unfortunately, no one captured that shot.

We started the day with a mango banana smoothie (she loves, loves, loves her “mooties”) followed by opening the first present – toy baby bottles for her babies!

Then we moved onto an outfit present so we could get her all dressed.

We managed to get a couple more presents open before she opened….her Nemo pool toy! That was the end of all gift opening for the next hour or so. We found an old tub and filled it with water so she could see Nemo go. She was a little skittish at first, but she got into it eventually.

Then, we went back and forth between Nemo and her birthday picnic lunch (by request).

We did manage to open another present (scissors and activity books) before nap time, but she was pretty tired, and we spent most of our time trying to help keep her from getting frustrated with the scissors.

During her nap, we finished putting together her panda cupcakes – I think they turned out great! Nana, Tia, and Tatie Kat all helped – thank you!

By the time she finished her nap and a quick snack (check out her muscles!),

Jason made it home and we all headed back to the living room to open more presents. She really liked and thoroughly examined her backpack,

but the ball brought the show to a halt for at least 20 minutes. Nothing quite like a ball in a kid’s eyes.

We headed outside (presumably to play with the ball some more), but on the way out we managed to distract her with more presents. It was all good to her – just as long as we got to go outside. Apparently she has no allergies to pollen – it was so thick it was practically snowing pollen. She didn’t care. In fact, she loves the stuff – it gives her yellow feet!

To understand these next couple of pictures, you need a little back story. While removing the plastic wrap from one of her presents, Tia closed her eyes while pulling (like we all sometimes do when something takes a little effort). Brianna saw that – for the rest of the day, any time she had to pull on something, she would scrunch up her eyes just like Tia. So sweet…

One of her presents was set of a shoestring puzzle cards. Brianna had to put each and every shoe string in the set in the sea horse card.
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It takes lots of concentration…

Finished product!

She wanted to stay outside, but we had all had enough of that pollen. She pouted a bit by putting herself in time out (didn’t really work since we were all busy laughing and taking pictures of her antics).

We managed to convince her that playing with her new play doh set inside would be great fun!

After a birthday dinner of her favorite food (pizza!),

we opened one more present – kitty Bla Bla (to go with her baby Bla Bla, big Bla Bla, and puppy Bla Bla)!

Then she decided it was time for cupcakes (which she referred to as “pancakes,” “panda cupcakes,” and “panda bears” depending on her mood). We stripped her down first and let her go at it. Blow out the candles big girl!

We only got one the first time so we closed our eyes and blew harder the second time.

Then she tackled the panda. First, the head (she refused to touch the face until much, much later).

Then, the oreo covered frosting body. Still relatively clean at this point.

But that did not last long!

After a few more presents (still naked from her cupcake time),

it was time for bed. We find it hard to believe she is two already, but she seemed to relish the idea. Now she is all caught up with her boys!

Whew – I made it! But, this is my last post for a while – I am pure blogged out.

P.S. Now that Brianna is two, I suppose we should retire the Baby category. Future posts will continue to use the Brianna category.