Have I really only been doing this for 2 years?

Well Madilyn turned 2 on the 27th, but it feels like she's been 2 for a while because I've been rounding up to 2 for a while. Somehow she got a tall gene and when I'd tell people she was 1, we would inevitably get into a conversation about how she looked bigger than 1. Often this would be with strangers in the grocery store or the park (we totally talk to strangers - I count it as my grown-up conversation for the day) and I'd make the same jokes about how Ryan and I aren't that tall so we don't know where she came from. So to skip the whole thing, I've been saying she is 2 for a while now.

She helped decorate her birthday cake and birthday card. Maybe we'll try a fairy princess party next year. This one was just family and nothing fancy at all. Ryan let her lick the cake and after watching all of that, none of us ate any of it. It all looked pretty gross by the end.

PS - Ryan had a birthday on the 18th - and I don't think we took a single picture of it. We went to the Jacksonville, FL zoo. Even on our birthdays we do things to make the princess happy.

As for Georgia, things are going pretty well here. It is already getting hot, but I may be an unreliable barometer since I'm always hot now. I guess being huge will do that to you. We actually do get out a lot, but we just have few pictures to show from it and I feel silly posting without an image.

We picked strawberries from a local u-pick field and I've joined the ranks of people who make jam. Why didn't anyone tell me how easy it is? I'm at a whole new level of domesticity and it wasn't too tough to get there. Now I have my sites set on those of you who make your own bread
and grind your own wheat and all of that.