The Terrible 2's x 2!

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I thought turning two, even on Christmas day, is warranted of a separate post, so here it is:

Along with Christmas dinner, the girls had their second birthday party at Aunt Judy's house this year. Luckily, they were pleased as punch about it and didn't even mind that mama left their birthday presents at home. After spending all morning opening Christmas presents, the girls (especially Bella) was more interested in eating cake. Lily was very dainty about it, eating the cake and ice cream neatly and exclaiming "all done" after a few small bites. Bella, however, threw herself right into eating as much cake and ice cream as she could get her hands on, finally settling on 2 slices of cake...and in record time! They had a great birthday. They each got a baby doll (one with blue eyes and one with brown) from nana that they fell in love with.

Christmas 2009!

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To offset the passing of their Grandpa Bakenhus this summer, Santa was VERY generous to the girls this Christmas. Along with loads of birthday gifts, the girls were showered with more than enough Christmas presents...so many that some of them still lay under the tree awaiting their opening in the days to come. Along with oodles of books and dvd's, Choo choo trains and Tinker Bell were the most noticable themes this year, but Barney, Teddy Bears and everything ballet was a close second. The girls opened about half their gifts Christmas morning and off we went to Aunt Judy's house to open more presents, see the rest of the family, pop English crackers, hear daddy play the violin, play the drum with Uncle Ken, run around the hard wood floor and most importantly, celebrate the girls' second birthday with a party.

After several wardrobe changes, Uncle Kenny showed off his holiday photography skills yet again:

Need I say more?

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Need I say more?

So many firsts...

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So much has been happening around here, many firsts, holiday festivities and getting ready for Christmas and the girls' second birthday.

Since the girls will be 2 years old before they return from Christmas break, their preschool has been transitioning the girls to the next level to a classroom with other kids their age and older. They are sad to leave their favorite Miss Shannon but have been really doing well with the older kids. Bella has been talking in small sentences and Lily can successfully drink from a cup! They've done so well with the big kids that I decided that now was the time to introduce them to another class.

The girls got their first taste of ballet class. At their first class, Bella jumped right in with the big kids and danced her little toes off as best she could. Lily was a little leery and just watched outside the room. Later, Lily warmed up with daddy and was ready for her second try a few days later.

The girls also deputed their dancing technique at their annual preschool holiday performance held at Pierce College this year. As Brittany Spear's sons also attend the same school, security was pretty tight as their was a rumor that she was going to attend that night's festivities. Rumors begin for a reason, I learned as we could barely drive in the parking lot where a man (that I later learned was Brittany Spear's escort) backed into our new family car. Luckily the damage was not as extensive to my car as it was to his.

The next week we took the girls to the Staples Center to see Disney on Ice. Tinker Bell is quite the gal around this house!