Raya's TWO!

This was taken last week sometime. Raya's wearing her favorite Dora shirt...her only Dora shirt...which she happens to have on today...on her birthday. She loves pointing Dora on her shirt and saying "Dowah" a couple times, it's super cute.

Raya is awesome. 

Things she loves to do or say: 

doing whatever Aaron is doing, repeating everything that we say (she'll repeat my scoldings to Aaron!), she loves her little baby dolls, loves to eat (especially candy and can usually be bribed to stop crying with the promise of food), she says "pweas" and "tat too", asks for food and water, says "I want...." whatever she wants.

When she's looking for you, she'll go "Mommy, wheahyou?" and when she finds you, "Oh hereyouah", she loves to sing "I am a Child of God" and "Do as I'm Doing" by asking to sing "God" and "Following" and sings along. She loves to sing songs and makes up the words for it as best as she can. 

She is very mellow but she wants what she wants and fight for it, she'll beat up on Aaron when he makes her mad, she can be picky about what clothes she wears but usually she's ok.

She likes to brush her teeth, helps set the table for her and Aaron and is usually looking out for him.

She'll pretend her baby is "dying" (crying) and comfort it or point to where the sound of the baby is "dying". She is a pro on the iPod touch and my iPhone and loves to look through the pictures and videos over and over again. 

She loves going to Nursery on Sundays and this past Sunday she got so excited, she bounced/walked to class and then literally ran to class and didn't even look back! 

Raya loves to say "hi" and "bye" to everyone and waves to anyone she sees. 

Her hair is getting long enough for me to put in a ponytail or pigtails but when she's over it, she'll take it out by herself and lose the hair tie :)

There is so much more to say about her but this is all I can think of right now. 

Happy 2nd Birthday sassy girl!! We love you!