Jaylyn asks these questions every morning. So, if you wonder what we are up to, read on . . .
Adley kind of sang along. She is a bit reserved on stage. :-)
Getting more bold. . . . 
Getting her diploma from her great teacher, Ms. Sheila
Here it is!
Jaylyn and Adley with Ms. Nancy. She has volunteered in that preschool class for a long time. She is always so sweet to the girls and me. Jaylyn had her when she was in preschool too.The girls had a great year with Awanas. It was Adley’s first year and she enjoyed her time in Cubbies. Jaylyn loves for her team to win game time and has done a great job pushing herself to learn lots of Bible verses. Sometimes she is even sweet enough to purchase gifts at the Awana store for her sisters with her points. Here are a couple pics from their award ceremony.
I woke up this morning to hear TJ singing “Happy Birthday” to Leighton who was still in her crib. Then I heard the giggling. :-) TJ asked her if it was her birthday and she declared her silly, “Noooooooo!” (This is a very silly “no” with lots of smiles). TJ continued, “are you two?” and the response. . . “Nooooooo!” She continued these “no’s” all day. :-) And every time one of us sang to her, you heard giggles.
Her sisters were very anxious to get her started with presents and all the birthday treats they could think of. Cousin Malaine was over yesterday and made her an Elmo paper bag puppet. They let her open that right away. :-)
What other thing would a giggly two year old Leighton want to do right away?? “Mommy, watch Elmo??” Of course!!
We had the perfect birthday dress from Nana and as soon as I showed it to her to wear she squealed with delight and kicked off Adley’s flip flops as fast as she could. :-)
Here she is with her cupcake dress and her rain boots she ran to put on after she got her dress on.
“Here is Elmo!”
Then we had to go to Walmart and Jaylyn said it just wasn’t right that I am making her go to Walmart on her birthday. :-) But, after Leighton saw lots of babies at Walmart, I told Jaylyn it was a perfect treat for her. Leighton cracked us up after one baby. She said, “She sooo cute!”.
Then it was off to lunch with Daddy to Incredible Pizza. (Selected by the sisters, of course)
Leighton enjoyed her food the most out of everyone.
Then it was off to games. It was a little sad to see how big she was acting. She mimics and repeats everything her big sisters do and say. So, Adley says, “I wanna do that” and . . . so does Leighton! She seemed to know exactly what to do on everything. They played lots of games and rode the horsie a LOT!
Then what else can you do on a two-year-old birthday? Lots of sister play time, dinner and time for birthday treat!
Jaylyn had a great idea to make cookie ice cream sandwiches. Sounded good to me!
Happy Birthday, Leighton!
Way back on Mother’s Day weekend, we went to visit TJ’s brother Brett and his fiance Rachel and meet her family. Did I forget to mention that Brett is getting married??? :-) September 3rd is the big day and Rachel is super sweet and already adored by her soon-to-be nieces. Anyway, it was a perfect weekend. . . we met the family, saw her dress, played at the park on a beautiful day, swam at the hotel pool, visited Brett’s church again, more fun friend visits, and sweet mother’s day gifts. And somehow this is the only picture I got of the whole weekend.
I think I forgot to post this a while back. Leighton’s hair has FINALLY grown enough to do little pony tails. :-) 
Leighton loves shoes. Even when she was younger, she would be very particular about which shoes she wanted to wear. I don’t think the other girls were quite that way quite so young. And now, she has two older sisters shoes to wear around the house. AND mommy’s or daddy’s. Here are some pics from a day she was wearing my shoes.
