Happy Birthday Ellie!

This last week, Nick and I were again reminded just how much schedules have changed since our single days (or maybe it is the fact that sleep has become much more valuable). For New Years Eve we celebrated with some friends at Ray and Geoff's house, but were home in time to be asleep when the new year actually rolled in. What party animals.

Ellie and I have had colds this week, and thus have spent a lot of time just chillin' on the couch, watching the mess build up in the house. We are both feeling better now, thank goodness.

Ellie turned 2 on Saturday. That has been the fastest two years of my life, hands down. We celebrated with family, and Ellie just ate up all of the attention. She got a tricycle, which is too big for her now, but hopefully she'll be able to reach the pedals come summer. Right now, she's pretty happy just climbing up the back and ringing the bell. I was busy filming the actual blowing of the candles, so I didn't get any photos of Ellie with her cake, but here is a photo of her enjoying the cake batter:

And here she's eating the frosting:
And here is the finished cake.

Funny when it came time to actually eat the cake, she was not so interested - she only ate a few bites of ice cream. Speaking of blowing out the candles, Nick instructed her to get closer to the flame, which she did, and which also singed her eyelashes. Poor baby. Hopefully we'll get video of it on the blog.