"Happy To You!"

That's what Mädchen says whenever she finds out it's someone's birthday--happy to you! So this morning when she woke up and Gretchen went to get her, the first thing she said was "happy to you!", because she knew it was her birthday. It's hard for us to believe, but our little girl is now two years old! When she was a tiny little baby in the hospital, it was impossible to imagine what she would be like when she got older, but here she is...

Then (in the hospital a day or two after her birth):



Now (at a group birthday party for her group of toddler friends a couple of weeks ago):



Then (on the train back from getting her passport on her 1-month birthday):



Now (birthday breakfast this morning):



Then (very first family portrait):



Now (family portrait at a little birthday gathering this afternoon):



"Happy to you!"