Jaycelyn's 2nd Year - Part 1

So here we are on the night before J's birthday and I still have not finished my goal of catching up the blog before she turns two! So Here is a very quick recap of this past year. It has been an absolutely wonderful year. It is unbelievable the changes that a little one undergoes from the first to second birthday. J has gone from a baby to a little kid in one very short year! At her first birthday she only had two teeth, one said like 5 words, and could not even walk yet. The teeth are still slow coming (although she has way more than two now), she RUNS around talking all day now. Her vocabulary has really blossomed in the past two weeks. It is wonderful that she is able to voice her needs better now, but I do miss her sweet little miss pronounced words.

Again this will be mostly holidays due to the fact that those are the recognizable pictures. First up Halloween. We had a visit from Mimi and went to the Pumpkin Patch. J had just started walking, and she had a great time tottering around the pumpkins. This year the initial plan was for J to be Tinkerbell, but after much slacking on my part, we ended up as a simple fairy. But boy was she cute! She did like trick-or-treating... but that might have just been because she got to ride in a wagon.

Next up on a quick tour is Christmas. This Christmas was great. She loved helping decorate the tree and opening presents. In fact she loved opening presents so much that she opened one or two early due to some sneakiness on her part.

Decorating the Tree

Opening Presents with Mimi

Christmas Day at Bochi and Pop's complete with meltdown shot!

And this post is getting long, so I am going to cut it off her and add a new post in the a.m. But to finish up 2011, here is J's Christmas photo shoot pics.