"Happy Birthday Alexcha"

Today was our sweet, little girl's SECOND birthday! Amazing! What a treasure of a child she is and we are so grateful to God for creating her. Not only does she bring our family an unimaginable amount of joy, but she spreads her energy and sweet spirit to anyone who is around her. She is full of smiles, energy, love, cuddles and sweetness. She is a little chatterbox and is saying many complete sentences of 4+ words. She continues to be the champion eater and enjoys all of her meals. She is absolutely and completely still her daddy's girl. She expresses her love for him any chance she gets and prefers to be in his arms than anywhere else, most of the time.
Ricardo took the day off of work so that we could have a special day together as a family. Diego was giddy with excitement to be celebrating his sister's birthday and was so sweet with her.


Ricardo drew a sweet picture on her present


She was thrilled to open her first "little people" doll house. Diego and her played with it all morning...


...until it was time to go to breakfast at La Madeline. She loves the croissants and muffins there so we had a special breakfast out and enjoyed our time together.

Breakfast at La Madeline always ends with racing up and down the sidewalk area. Diego and Alexia ran together for about 10 minutes and then asked Papa and I to join in on the racing.

After breakfast we headed to the Children's museum downtown and had a really fun time.

They loved painting!

This crane was the highlight for Diego. He loaded the top with balls and then dumped them into the basket. Alexia was a great co-pilot.

They probably had the most fun playing in the tree house. I love Diego's face here. His cheeks were bright red because he was so hot from running around.

Ricardo is part of a weekly men's group on Wednesdays. This Wednesday was his turn to host so we decided to turn it into a little birthday party for Alexia. We invited wives and children and Alexia was thrilled! I enjoyed having my girlfriends over and Alexia and Diego had a blast with their buddies. We had hot dogs, chips and salad and of course, chocolate cake!