Happy Birthday, Sweetest Girl in the World.

This morning over breakfast I interviewed the birthday girl. Here's what she had to say.

What is your favorite thing to eat?
Watermelon

What else do you like to eat?
Pancakes
[Note: She was eating pancakes and watermelon for breakfast.]
Who is your favorite teacher?
Miss Linda
What do you like to play with?
Popper [This is questionable.]

What is your favorite color?
Pupple. And geen. Pink. And bue and yeyow.

What songs do you like to sing?
Round and Round [Wheels on the Bus]

Who are your friends?
Miss Kim [one of her teachers]

Do you have any other friends?
Eleanor

What is something you like to do outside?
Swings!

What is your favorite thing to do on Saturday?
I don't know.

What is your favorite thing to do on Sunday?
Go to church

We had a wonderful day. Mary Lawton ate a huge breakfast of strawberry pancakes and watermelon. She was happy to wear her new 2 shirt and new (to her) shoes. She loved the "happy birthday" sign hanging in the kitchen and wanted to go over all the letters. She was excited to go to out for pizza for dinner and pick out her own birthday cupcake.

Some two-year-old highlights:

• "Hi, Mommy. I so happy see you."
• "Moe [the cat] can't go to Savage Pizza."
• "Hey, Daddy-Do Daddy-Do."
• "I ate duh Pay-Doh. Miss Lisa say don't eat duh Pay-Doh. Big kids don't eat Pay-Doh." [It turns out Mary Lawton didn't eat the Play-Doh. Her friend Eleanor did.]
  
• [after spilling milk all over the table] "Mommy! Duh muk is out! Duh muk is out!"
• "Dis is my elbow. Wight dere."
  

Mary Lawton loves to go to the playground, any playground, but she especially loves the "pupple paygound" because it has swings. She would be happy swinging for hours. She likes to play with the kitchen she got for Christmas and loves stickers. She loves all her babies, and we have names for all of them. She changes their diapers and feeds them like a good mama.

She is a good helper around the house. She still likes to get a paper towel and the Febreeze and clean up. She gives Coqui his treats and scoops Moe's food. She cleans up her toys when she feels like it or when she wants to start something new and we make her clean up.

Mary Lawton is very dramatic. Last night when we got to the end of Curious George Rides a Bike, she started crying when George went to sleep. "Wake up, George! Wake up!" Tears rolling. If a character in a book seems upset, she gets all sad and says, "He want his daddy!" She's already a crybaby just like her mama.

She is very curious and talks constantly about everything she sees. She wants to know who everyone is. If we pass someone on the street she's likely to ask, "What dat man?," which means who is that man, and then "What dat man doing?" Or she might say, "somebody's daddy" or "somebody's mommy wight dere." I've tried to explain that not all men are daddies and not all women are mommies, but it makes no sense to her.

We can't wait 'til her birthday party on Saturday and to see the look on her face when she gets her big surprise! The only thing she's consistently said about her birthday party is that she wants pink cake, so she's getting pink cupcakes.

Mary Lawton, we are so thankful and feel so blessed that we got you. You are such a light in our lives. Thanks for the millions of smiles and laughs you've brought us. Love, love, love you, Shorty.