Second Birthday Fun

Although neither Lee nor I are "birthday people," we want to make sure that our girls have great birthday memories; and because we don't really buy them things except at Christmas, birthdays give us the chance to go a little bit overboard. We celebrated Emily's birthday last Sunday through Wednesday (gifts from us, aunts and uncles, friends and grandparents kept rolling in!). Our (mine and Lee's) favorite part of the whole experience? When the three of us sang "Happy Birthday" to Emily, she just had this amazed look on her face, like she couldn't believe that we were singing to her.

Emily's face while we were singing to her.
The water wheel table, which was her "big" gift from us.
Playing with her (their) favorite new toy.
She got tons of cards - and ran right to this table every day when the mail came to open them.
She's mastered the art of opening packages, that's for sure!