Terrible Twos??

We've been leading up to this day for the past several weeks it seems. All the sudden destruction and tears and timeouts become extremly frequent throughout the day. Well, it all began on Saturday. Grandma and Grandpa Andersen came up on Friday night to pick up Chad's brother Ben from EFY and Saturday they came over bearing gifts for Emrie's birthday. She officially turned 2 on Monday, so we did most of the celebrating then. We decided to make her cake Elmo this year, which was fun since she actually kind of understood what was going on. Here's her cake:

Monday morning she woke up to find this trike (thank you Amber and Nathan!) She loves it and rides her "truck" everyday now.

Oma and Opa Kay sent her some Melissa and Doug puzzles which she set off to working on as soon as they were opened.

Saturday with the Andersen's. She has to hold one of these pillow pets everytime we go to the store, so she was pretty happy to have one of her own. She also got Tangled...which she is pretty obsessed with now.

Overall it was a really good day.

Emrie loves to cuddle with Molly and give her hugs. When she gets hurt it's Molly she wants a hug from. Here's some pictures I thought were cute.