Look who's 2!

 

I had planned a birthday party on Ava's actual birthday with the family, but Ava's virus had other plans and decided to give her a gift of a 102 temperature an hour before family was to arrive. So we had a nice big cake (I made it in the shape of an owl, her theme for the party) all to ourselves. And food, lots of food.

This year we had 2 balloons in honor of Julia, one for each girl to let go. We also told Sophia why we are making a tradition of releasing the balloons on Ava's birthday. That felt good to tell her about Julia, but also trickier than anticipated.