"MY Happy Birthday!"

I believe it is due to being the third child, but Miranda is very teritorial and possessive. She will share, and she's good about it if you ask her nicely, but she definitely makes it known when she wants something to be hers: "MY ________". This has been especially true about Ariel, a Barbie that was originally Megan's birthday present. But it was also the first thing she said about her cake when she saw it on Saturday morning. "MY Happy Birthday Ariel". She now adds cake, but she believes "Happy Birthday" is a synonym for cake.


When Miranda woke up this morning, she started chattering (in her not-so-quiet voice) immediately about her Happy Birthday, and that we would eat it after church. I think she said "Happy Birthday" about 20 times in 2 minutes!
I don't think she had the concept of the part about turning 2 or about presents yet... but she sure did know when the time came to open them. Of course, I think her sisters helped clue her in on what to do, and offered LOTS of assistance.







We had a great time talking to Grandma & Grandpa, and then the Giauques while opening presents. Miranda was very excited to share her birthday cake, at least in theory. Grandpa said Miranda could have his piece (after she offered him some). But after scraping all the frosting off her piece of cake, I decided to give her another slice (more frosting) and told her it was Grandpa's piece, she was quite upset and insited it was "MY Happy Birthday! [cake]". She loved that it was Ariel, that it was her Happy Birthday [cake].

We all enjoyed the cake!
And opening more presents (Note that she has Ariel in her hands- she grabbed hold of her all night!)She also loved her birthday presents (Ariel books, Ariel polly-pocket, Ariel barbie doll, some cute books from G&G, cards





and a little play-dough kit that lets you extrude the dough to create manes, tails, elephant trunks. Her sisters really enjoyed the latter, too!

Happy Second Birthday, Miranda!


Singing Happy Birthday:

She LOVES Ariel!