Isla's 2nd Birthday

 It's unbelievable to me that Isla is 2 years old. We have had 2 whole years of loving our sweet, smart, sensitive little pumpkin. Her ponytails are always crooked, her mouth is always covered in smoothie, she has a vocabulary the size of a dictionary, she smells like peanut butter or basil depending on the day, you can find her reading all her books or snuggling her loveys, and she has a deep love for learning everything there is to know. She is my little light. I wish I could freeze her just like this, but I love watching her grow and learn. 

We had a fun weekend of celebrating our big girl! My parents came to town and Isla was SO excited. She ran around the room screaming "Mimi! Bupa (my poor dad's Isla-given name)! Excited! Excited!". We don't get to see them in person too often, but we facetime usually a couple times a day. She loves when she actually gets to snuggle them in person. 

On her actual birthday, Michael took the day off so we could all celebrate together. We filled the living room with balloons and she woke up with so much joy! I have a video of her running around like a mad woman with all the balloons screaming, "Oh my!". She opened her birthday stocking (something I started when I was dating Michael. I made him one and so now everyone gets one) and a small present. Then we had some breakfast pizza (her favorite) before heading to the "punkin patch" (as she calls it). It was a fun day! That night, we all went around and shared something we loved about our Isla girl. I was a sobbing mess, which was really concerning and confusing for her (and maybe not a nice thing to do to her on her birthday). But I just love her so much and I can't handle how old she's getting. It literally hurts my heart. 

The next day was her party! All of her favorite people came over to celebrate. She got to have cake and open presents and it was probably the best day she's ever had. I wish every day could be her birthday so I could watch her excitement! 

Here is baby Easton and baby Ewan, best friends already! Our little guys were born exactly one week a part, although Ewan looks like a monster baby in this picture (it must be the angle haha).

Isla has a really strange obsession with Uncle Trevor. She gets shy and silly when he gets on the phone. Every night at dinner we share our "highs" and "lows" of the day. Isla's high is always "Uncle Trevor", whether we've talked to him or not. So for her birthday, Uncle Trevor and Aunt Rah-Rah made Isla her very own t-shirt with Trevor's face on it! She was in love.

Isla's naturally sweetened cake :) She loved it!

We are doing our best to make sure these little guys are best friends :)

This is how we all felt by the end of the party. What a day!

Sunday was spent as a family coming down off our party high. Isla played with all her new toys and we ate leftover cake in front of the fire. And somehow she was so much bigger and older and I really don't think my heart can handle it. 

Each year we are going to take a picture with the same number of pumpkins as her age. I can't believe we had to use TWO already!