We celebrated Ingrid’s birthday this Sunday. Unfortunately she was slightly off-colour and the large crowd (9 guests) was a bit too much for her. But she really enjoyed opening her presents, and playing with her two cousins, whom she doesn’t meet very often. She liked her cards, too, especially since several of them had photos of herself on them.

(Ingrid’s quite fascinated with photos: every time I try to take a photo of her she runs to me and wants to look at it on the camera screen. Often she does this before I’ve even had time to take the picture, which makes it quite hard to get any photos at all…) I didn’t have the time to take any photos of the birthday party myself, so I’m hoping the guests will send me theirs. Hint, hint…

We had two yellow candles for her, and spoke about how she’s now two years old. I don’t think she understands what a year is, but she understood that the number two has something to do with her now. Whenever we run across a “two” somewhere in a story or a book, she pauses, and very proudly tells me “kaks aastat!”