Today our Elspeth turned two. It didn’t go quite as planned (but, it wouldn’t be a birthday if it went exactly as planned) but it was a great day. Most of the day, Elspeth spent outside either splashing in puddles, touching leaves (we are making some progress on getting dirty hands), cutting plastic fruit and creating Mrs Potatoe Heads. It was really fun. I was really glad that mom and dad brought the purple wellies back from Scotland with them. Elspeth has already gotten tons of use out of them.
After skating it was home for a family dinner with Glenn’s mom, more presents and more cake (this time just a frozen McCains cake). In the midst of it all, Elspeth had to talk on the phone to various people sharing birthday wishes. I think that was as much of a gift to her as the actual gifts. That girl loves to talk on the phone. She doesn’t make any sense but she is totally commited to the non-sense that she is saying; to the point that she even pauses to wait for a response. Once again when she unwrapped the clothes she tried to wrap them back up or discard them quickly to the side. “I may not have done this birthday thing before but I am smart enough to know that there has to be toys in some of these packages so to heck with these dull clothes.” I think that her favourite gifts tonight were the doll stroller and chinese Cabbage Patch Kid. She had Katrine pushing her own doll stroller and ‘baby’ right along side her around the living room in circles. Then Karen and Peter stopped by so it was back to the cake and gifts.
Now she is asleep. I wonder if she will wake up tomorrow morning and want to push the stroller to the bus stop when we walk Katrine. My wish for Elspeth is that the coming year bring her stability and security after all of the changes she experienced while one. Happy Birthday sweetie!
