LeaAnn Claire is TWO!

Sunday, 3/3/13

Sad day... the Koontz's had to head home :(

Though the Lexus had had enough I think ;)

Picked up the house and remembered, 'that oh-yes, it's big-girl's bday today!'

And I should take some pictures :)  Since I still don't have a 2-yr pic appt scheduled yet... I thought it was giong to eventually turn somewhat nice out, and I could maybe take them... not so much. New baby for her birthday... she's been attached at the hip to it ;)  Actually, when we got home from her birthday party, she promptly walked upstairs with her, laid her in the baby-crib, covered her up, walked back downstairs and whispered, "baby sweeping!" SO cute!

Look at her little butt! :) None of the other three did this... she was following the flowers on the rug ... walking in a straight line, talking the whole time :) She is quite the talker and dancer.

Her hair... this is what it looks like if I don't do something with it ;)

Carrying her 'picnic' from Kelly Kress :) this later turned into her puppy-dog purse that her aunt Jody got her... she sleeps with it now!  Notice her cute little butt again?

And the reason you can 'see' her little butt is b/c she's not wearing a diaper!!! :D  She deemed herself potty-trained on Tuesdsay, February 26th. The conversation turned from, "thanks for trying", to 'this is not an option' on Friday, 2/22 :) Monday, 2/25 she did pretty good, and then on Tuesday, 2/26, she TOLD Barb at daycare that she had to potty everytime! She stayed that way all three days at daycare.We had a few accidents throughout the weekend... like this one at Craig & Kris' on the porch :) But she's been great ever since!

So proud of herself. Even dry through the night...better not say that too loud ;) I'll let you know if that changes.

Tuesday, 3/5/13 - threw these in here as they scream, "I am LeaAnn, I am two!" We had a snow-storm on Tuesday the 5th... a lovely, beautiful 6-inches. Too bad it's March :(

Here's what else I like to do...

This is the mess I leave in my tracks...

This is a classic face I make...

She dressed herself ;)

Here's my girl!!! :D

Guess who this is??? :) Lindsay Rae in the same shirt... at age 2 :) wow.

Loved it so much.. here is the same pic, not zoomed in.

I scream, "I do it!" all the time...

I say, "I funny... dat funny"

And I am an escape artist as well... if you don't pay close attention... out the door I go. Culprit at home, daycare & at the Peck's :)

Thanks for making our days fun-filled LeaAnn Claire! Can't wait to see what year three brings :)

Iphone video from Mimi :D taken on Thursday, 3/21/13

Saturday... after the party

The kids put their snow-clothes back on and headed outside :) Mimi did not like that they were across the road... but she headed out to take pictures :)

Her quote here was, "trying to get a group shot - like trying to herd cats!" :)

I took this one and posted to FB, "I think the Koontz's like Iowa, but not so sure about the Lexus" ;)

LeaAnn Claire's 2nd birthday party

Saturday, 3/2/13

Wow!!! Where does the time go?? Our baby-girl (a.k.a. Big Girl) is TWO!!! Doesn't seem possible... and it's been a bitter-sweet time. We (I) have been waiting to be done with diapers, waiting to be done with the 'baby' stage... but then it became a concrete realization... there will be no more babies arriving in our home. Kinda sad when you think about it from that stand point. However, we are not going backwards, we are completely done, and I am happy to think that our life will move on from here... on to ball-games, running like crazy from all of their events and family vacations (!) you know... Disney World or something like that ;) we can finally say, "yes, we'll be able to go in 3-years" 

Here we are at our last 2-year-birthday-party... a Minnie Mouse theme and room to run around for the girl who likes nothing but to do 'whatever her big-sisters are doing!' :D Literally, she likes books & her sisters peeps :) (occasionally dad too ;)

Had all of her favorite food groups, chips/cheetos, spin-art-dip, fruit & cake ;)

Adore this picture of Miss Lindsay Lou :)

How cute is the cake & cake-pops! Thanks to 6th Street Tasty Treats (in Winthrop! :)

There is that side-pony-tail group of girls again :)

thanks to Grammy for bringing the balloons!

Here's the birthday girl!! :D Love this picture of her & cousin, Emma :)

Like her hair?? I think it's so cute on her! Just wish she'd leave it in ;)

Still a blankie-addict ;)

The t-shirt(s) (all the girls have one) are from Mimi :) and are incredibly perfect!! Pink sparkle skirt and leggings were Lydia birthday presents :) and the pink sparkle shoes are all her own from God-parents, Kris & Craig at Christmas :)

"I do it!!" is her tag line. ALWAYS.

How cool is that!?  Laynee could stay in it and roll herself.. very cool :D

Grammy playing with the birthday girl...

how adorable is Ms. Emma's smile?? :)

Love this giggle...

family pic with our last 2-yr-old ;)

family pic from LAST year... Mom managed to wear a new t-shirt... Dad... not so much ;) we really need to go shopping!!

LeaAnn Claire at two...

at One... same kid, less hair ;)

Love this picture of Carson :)

cake time!  of course we found matches in a drawer after the fact ;)

She was soo funny opening up presents

Here she is opening up her Furby... she saw what it was, picked up the present and RAN. And never looked back... hilarious. Just wished I would have gotten it on video :)

Here she is with her Furby, all the way on the other side of the gym :)

She examined all of her books :)

1 & 4

Slight resembalance would you agree??

two years earlier :) 

She really got in to opening up her presents 'all by herself'...

And she ended up trying on all her skirts too :) Overall, I would say this birthday girl was super happy with her big celebration.