Tuesday the 13th marked the day that Jess and Elsie turned two, and we celebrated with my family. My mom and dad and sister Jody flew out from Michigan for the weekend, and Jill and Dave came down from Boulder. We all couldn't believe that our little babies are now these chatty little toddlers with distinct opinions and wishes. What a wonderful couple of years it has been. I know that I couldn't feel more blessed and more full of love for these adventurous and sweet little children.
Ever since Jess and Elsie were born, I have wanted not to stereotype their genders, and provide them with similar toys and opportunities and let them choose what they like. To go along with this, one of their presents was a set of doll twins that looks a lot like Elsie and Jess, with blond hair and blue eyes. We didn't know what Jess would think, but watching him open his little boy doll was priceless and something that I wish we had on video. While Elsie pulled the doll out and started to play immediately, Jess looked at his with a very confused look on his face. Then he started shaking his head and saying, "no, no, no, no, no!" I tried to take him out of the box to show him how cute he was, but he took him and shoved him right back in, like he just wanted him to go away. It took a day or two before he decided that he was all right. Now he likes to put him in the double doll stroller and run around really fast with him, laughing if he runs into something and the doll falls out. That kind of counts as playing with him, right?
Here I'm trying to show him how fun it is to change his clothes, which brought more looks like, "Come on, Mommy." He did seem a bit more excited to open his soccer set and tool bench. But Elsie likes to play with those toys just as much -- interesting...
Elsie wanted to brush her doll's hair right away, but just like she won't let me put pigtails in her hair, we had to take them out of her doll's hair too. I'm don't think I'm gonna win that one.
The highlight of the whole day was the Elmo cake that Grammy made for them -- they still talk about it. Here they are "helping" with the frosting.
The finished product -- we were worried they wouldn't let us eat it at first.
They got in some good cuddle time with Grampy.
On their actual birthday, they got to open some cards and a few gifts in the mail, which seemed to be just as much fun. And then they got to eat chocolate cookies.
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