rebekah turns two

On Super Bowl Sunday, our little baby turned two! 

We didn't want to compete with the big game, so we celebrated on Saturday with an alphabet-themed party.

I made alphabet cereal balls...

...and delicious confetti cupcakes!

But Rebekah was the star of the show - didn't she look beautiful!

We have a tradition every birthday.  On her first birthday, we took a picture of her holding her newborn photo.  On this birthday, we've got pictures of her holding her first birthday picture.  It will be fun to see how the pictures change over the years.

We invited all of the friends on Rebekah's prayer list.  Every night we ask her who she wants to pray for, and, unprompted, she lists off several of her friends.  Then, she tells us to put our hands together, she bows her head, and she says "Thank you, God" and names all of those friends.  It's downright adorable.

After they played their hearts out, we got ready to sing and eat cake!

Rebekah loved hearing everyone sing her Happy Birthday.  She's celebrated so many people's birthdays the past few months, she was excited that it was finally her turn.

She blew out the candle all on her own!

And then she totally face-planted her cupcake. :)

Happy girl!

We struggled over Christmas getting her to open presents, but not anymore!  She knew exactly what to do with the presents she got.

And she wanted to play with everything right then. 

All in all, it was a great birthday.

Now...here's hoping time slows down a bit before the next one. :)